Prediction: More people visiting the Olympics will die of heat stroke OR transportation accidents OR "misadventure" than anything to do with Fukushima radiation.
I came back to Korea and am treated to a few banners in my small city with 'Don't go to Japan, Don't buy anything Japanese'. So did some reading up and realised it was just another childish thing that the Koreans and Japanese have, but this time started by the Japanese. It doesn't take much.
2018Oct. 30 -- South Korea's Supreme Court orders a Japanese company, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., to compensate South Korean victims for forced labor and unpaid work during World War II. Nov. 29 -- South Korea's top court orders a Japanese company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., to compensate South Korean wartime forced labor victims.2019Jan. 9 -- Japan requests that Seoul and Tokyo begin government talks over the wartime forced labor issue. May 20 -- Japan requests formation of an arbitration panel involving a third-country to address the wartime forced labor issue. June 19 -- South Korea proposes to Japan that companies from both countries create a joint fund to compensate the wartime forced labor victims. Japan turns down the offer.
Don't state facts about Germany and their payments if you did not do your research properly!They have been paying a monthly pension to any of their proud Belgian, German, Austrian and Polish Nazi SS-soldiers still alive for instance. 75 years x 1000 eurosx12= 900.000 per Nazi- granddad/grandma.
Quote from: Cohort 2019 on August 24, 2019, 06:13:44 amDon't state facts about Germany and their payments if you did not do your research properly!They have been paying a monthly pension to any of their proud Belgian, German, Austrian and Polish Nazi SS-soldiers still alive for instance. 75 years x 1000 eurosx12= 900.000 per Nazi- granddad/grandma. While it's true that Germany pays a livable pension for its veterans (unlike, say, the USA), Germany has also paid over 60 Billion dollars to its war crime victims. Not too many other countries have done anything even remotely similar.For some context: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/10/world/germany-defends-pensions-for-ss-veterans.htmlAlso, while the video is a bit disturbing, I feel like that lady looks as though she might be a sandwich short of a picnic.
Korean TV is utter sh*te.I spent three lovely weeks back home in England and I couldn't get over how good the TV is there. Is there anything like the BBC here? Does that exist? As an example, I remember watching a TV program called "The Octopus in my House" about a professor of marine biology who lives at home with an octopus in his living room with a view to learning more about the animal and how it can react to humans. It was stunning TV. Beautifully shot, informative, funny, everything you want in a TV program. It got me thinking that that sort of show doesn't exist here (does it?)What do we have here? Epilepsy inducing, eardrum bursting nonsense from what I've seen. Incidentally I showed my brother a clip of Korean TV and he said something quite interesting. He said Korean TV seems like what you would end up with if you asked a Westerner to come up with the most stereotypical, annoying and maybe racist depiction of what you think Asian TV is like. It would be pretty close to reality!Been here too long and very grouchy now I'm back after my summer holiday
i mean, i don't want to hoover my house, and i certainly don't want to watch someone else do it on TV.
Quote from: oglop on September 02, 2019, 11:24:38 ami mean, i don't want to hoover my house, and i certainly don't want to watch someone else do it on TV.Yesssssssssssssssss, "Look at these 4 people set up a gas stove. Then they will make kimchi jjiage."This is the same reason I don't play sports video games. (I do understand why people so, I'm not ragging on them). I could go outside and throw a ball around. Yes, I know, I'm not playing in the huge field with a 30 000 strong crowd I get that, but I can play baseball. I can play golf. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided? I can't do that, that's the draw. I'm not a cyborg, I can't run around a warehouse, slaughtering 100s of baddies to save the world. TV should be thought provoking and deep, at least sometimes. Broadchurch is realistic, sure, but it's not something I can do. I'm not a detective and I don't have the mind for that."Look! This man is driving his daughter to the daycare! Wanna watch a dashcam of him driving for 6 mins?"Hell no, I get enough of that in real life.
I've heard before part of the reason TV here seems so random and crappy is because they don't take the time to make good content, they just make content and put it out.
and 어서와~ 한국은 처음이지? (the one where the foreigners visit).
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 02, 2019, 11:39:53 am and 어서와~ 한국은 처음이지? (the one where the foreigners visit). this is probably the worst one, on all of tv. foreigners doing stuff that koreans do every day. "wow, look how much foreigners love korea!", "haha! look! a foreigners is eating spicy food. it's too spicy for him!", "omg the foreigners just said the subway is really efficient. look how great us koreans are". it only EVER shows things in a 100% positive light- gratingly so. it feels like the main purpose of the show is so the korean audience can give themselves a big ol' pat on the back. after all, judging from this tv show, korea is amazing and all foreigners love it so much that they have absolutely 0 negative things to say