Because, Korea

[Guest Jason L]

Level of difficulty is becoming easier in last few years. Still many students find it hard. Originally, typical 'fill in the black' question was like this.

 

 

 

Not so useful in real world.

 

DAFUQ?

 

That question is insane/asinine.

[DB]

I'm going to say that the answer to 35 is 5.

 

it's not really about whether the argument being made in the question is correct or not, it's about whether any of the suggestions matches the rest of the argument.

 

Hope I'm right

[Mr King]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNy8MUPOAtQ

[Brian Kennedy]

I'm going to say that the answer to 35 is 5.

 

it's not really about whether the argument being made in the question is correct or not, it's about whether any of the suggestions matches the rest of the argument.

 

Hope I'm right

 

I was voting 5 too!

[JasonJ]

 

SEOUL, South Korea — The police on Saturday fired water cannons and tear gas at thousands of protesters shouting for President Park Geun-hye’s resignation while marching toward her office in Seoul in the largest antigovernment demonstration here in several years.

Tens of thousands of people wearing plastic raincoats filled a City Hall plaza in downtown Seoul, brought together by a host of antigovernment grievances, including Ms. Park’s recent decision to replace privately published school history textbooks with a uniform, government-issued text.

The crowd, many of whom chanted “Down with Park Geun-hye!” and “No to layoffs!” surged down a 10-lane boulevard toward Ms. Park’s presidential office, the Blue House, several blocks away. Officers blocked the marchers with barricades they built using 700 police buses linked together across the main street and other roads leading to the presidential compound.

While police water cannons blasted their ranks, demonstrators tried to create breaches by tying ropes to buses and pulling at them. Buses were coated with cooking oil to stymie protesters who tried to climb over. Riot police officers armed with plastic shields also guarded the roofs of the vehicles, repelling protesters, some wielding steel pipes and bamboo sticks as they approached the buses.

There were no immediate tallies of the number of people injured on either side. Water fired from the police cannons contained liquid tear gas and blue paint to help identify protesters for later arrest. Some protesters were knocked down by the water blasts and were dragged away by colleagues.

Ms. Park, who left early Saturday for international meetings in Turkey and the Philippines, has recently seen her approval ratings fall after her decision on the history textbooks.

Student protesters on Saturday said that the new textbook, to be issued by the government by 2017, would whitewash the legacy of Ms. Park’s father, former President Park Chung-hee. Mr. Park was accused of collaborating with the Japanese colonial forces in the early 20th century, and in 1961 he seized power in a military coup and ruled South Korea as the leader of a dictatorship until his assassination in 1979. The country’s conservative elites have credited him with guiding South Korea’s economic growth during his rule.

Many of the protesters on Saturday were unionized workers who detest labor reforms pushed by Ms. Park. Labor groups said the changes would benefit only the country’s powerful family-controlled conglomerates, known as chaebol, by making it easier to fire workers. The government said the changes were needed to help companies compete better with low-cost industries in China and to create jobs for young people.

Protest organizers said as many as 130,000 people joined the rally on Saturday, making it the largest such gathering under Ms. Park’s government. The police put the number at 68,000.

During a news conference, Han Sang-gyun, the leader of the main labor group, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, warned against a widening gap between the rich and the poor in South Korea, saying that the chaebol were “wallowing in cash” while an increasing number of workers were forced to work on poorly paid temporary contracts.

Scuffles erupted when plainclothes police officers tried to detain Mr. Han under a court warrant that allowed them to arrest him for organizing illegal protests in the past. Mr. Han escaped into a nearby building and later showed up at the main rally, calling on the crowd to march on the Blue House, which he called “the heart of an unjust government.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/world/asia/antigovernment-protest-seoul-south-korea.html?_r=0

[Calvinb1nav]

Damn...since they have these, South Korea is definitely Best Korea

Edited November 24, 2015 by Calvinb1nav

[M48A5K]

Old school stuff

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXdRs4EIH6o

[BansheeOne]

Wrong Korea:

 

 

The Moranbong Band (Chosŏn'gŭl: 모란봉악단; RR: Moranbong akdan), also known as Moran Hill Orchestra,^[1] is an all-female music group in North Korea whose members were selected by the country's supreme leader Kim Jong-un.^[2][3][4][5] Performing interpretive styles of pop, rock, and fusion, they are the first all-female band from the DPRK, and made their world debut on July 7, 2012.^[6] Their varied musical style has been described as symphonic because it is "putting together different kinds of sounds, and ending in a harmonious, pleasing result."^[7]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moranbong_Band

 

Right Korea:

 

 

K-Pop group Oh My Girl detained at LA airport on suspicion of being sex workers

 

A pop group has flown back to South Korea after officials in Los Angeles thought they might be sex workers.

 

The eight members were travelling to America for an album cover shoot but were detained for 15 hours in customs.

 

A statement from the group's record company, WM Entertainment, said authorities held them after going through their costumes and props.

 

"They seem to have mistaken them as sex workers," said a spokesman.

 

Oh My Girl, who formed in March, are thought to be back in South Korean capital Seoul after being released by officials at Los Angeles International Airport.

 

WM Entertainment says it is taking legal advice in the US to find out whether the band's detention was legal.

 

The record company also said there might have been an issue with the type of visa the band members presented.

 

They had also been booked to perform at a gala event in Los Angeles on Saturday.

 

It's unclear if they will try to return to America to complete their album cover shoot.

 

Oh My Girl (or OMG) brought their debut single Cupid out in April with a second mini-album and title track Closer released in October.

 

The band members are all aged between 16 and 21.

 

South Korean pop music, known as K-pop, is dominated by girl and boy bands whose members are sometimes as young as 13 or 14 years old.

 

In 2012, the government clamped down on over-sexualised performances by threatening to give higher age ratings to films, music videos and TV shows which exaggerated the sexuality of younger singers and bands.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35071156/k-pop-group-oh-my-girl-detained-at-la-airport-on-suspicion-of-being-sex-workers

[Panzermann]

You got that backwards, BansheeOne! How dare you doubt the good taste of the only fat kid in bestest Korea? Go read his poems again. Thrice! It proves it is the one and only true right Korea.

 

 

 

seriously, south korea threatening to put higher age ratings on K-Pop is probably not the worst thing. When the development keeps.going we are soon going to see korea girl bands in brazilian bikinis. You know, the finger wide type.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Panzermann

[Mr King]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl5tVKE4tb0

[JasonJ]

 

Kind of old but looks like a good after work, grab a can of beer, relax, and enjoy watching kind of show.

[M48A5K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=319&v=Z2G5jhJZGks

[urbanoid]

Korean Statue Depicts A Jesus So Jacked It Looks Like His Last Supper Was Pure Protein

 

Graphic depiction and recreations of Jesus Christ have always portrayed the son of God as a thin but shredded deity.

In this depiction of God on Earth, Jesus is swole as HELL. Art is up for interpretation but it’s easy to interpret that this statue’s creator imaged that Jesus spent his time pumping iron as preaching.

As one IMGUR commentor put it — “And verily did Jesus lift on every day; and lo, he skippeth not leg day. And there was much rejoicing and yelling of ‘bro!’.”

 

 

 

 

 

http://brobible.com/life/article/korean-jesus-statue-jacked/

[JasonJ]

How long can you speak without stopping? Two or three hours may be long enough.

 

How about 10 hours? It may sound unrealistic, doesn't it? But this is what Rep. Eun Soo-mi of the main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea (MPK) successfully did Wednesday in an unprecedentedly long-lasting filibuster intended to block an anti-terrorism bill pushed by ruling conservative Saenuri Party.

 

The bill, if enacted, will allow the spy agency to collect a wide range of personal data ― some without a court warrant ― including phone records of those suspected of posing a security threat.

 

The lawmaker kept her mouth switched on for a staggering 10 hours 18 minutes. Another opposition lawmaker, Jung Cheong-rae, spoke for 11 hours 39 minutes before leaving the podium on Saturday, breaking a record for the country's longest parliamentary speech set on Wednesday by Eun.

 

Since late Tuesday, 21 lawmakers, including Eun from the MPK, and others from the Justice Party have taken turns to hold the main floor at the National Assembly for nearly 100 hours (as of 9 a.m. Saturday). How long will it continue?

 

The Korea Times selected a live feed and some photos (provided by Yonhap News Agency) of this unprecedented political drama.

 

 

 

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/common/vpage-pt.asp?categorycode=115&newsidx=199176&mode=1

[M48A5K]

Last night I went to a concert of my favourite band, Guckkasten. I really enjoyed and here are some videos taken yesterday. Of course they are all in Korean

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a68gWuQaU4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XOOmWuBb0Y

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFFsyQE4R0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrO1uUsd9EA

 

 

 

It's good to be tall

Edited April 3, 2016 by M48A5K

[M48A5K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFFsyQE4R0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrO1uUsd9EA

[JasonJ]

Not bad

[RETAC21]

 

Korean Statue Depicts A Jesus So Jacked It Looks Like His Last Supper Was Pure Protein

 

Graphic depiction and recreations of Jesus Christ have always portrayed the son of God as a thin but shredded deity.

In this depiction of God on Earth, Jesus is swole as HELL. Art is up for interpretation but it’s easy to interpret that this statue’s creator imaged that Jesus spent his time pumping iron as preaching.

As one IMGUR commentor put it — “And verily did Jesus lift on every day; and lo, he skippeth not leg day. And there was much rejoicing and yelling of ‘bro!’.”

 

 

 

 

 

http://brobible.com/life/article/korean-jesus-statue-jacked/

 

 

A Jesus you can believe in, it took two legions to nail him to this stone cross!!

[Der Zeitgeist]

 

Watch until 1:15.

[JasonJ]

At least they tried to bring him back.

 

 

Ssam 쌈. There's a good Ssam restaurant about 30 minutes by train.

[JasonJ]

These are some neat paintings.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2017/06/691_231470.html

[JasonJ]

Wood craftsman makes many naval ships out of wood such as Hood, Yamato, etc.

 

[Roman Alymov]

These are some neat paintings.

 

 

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2017/06/691_231470.html

Portable stove here is 100% like ones now available in almost any shop in Russia (I got two ) Is it original Korean design, or just China product fits all?

By the way it is in “unlocked” position, gas tank switched off.

[JasonJ]

I've got no idea about the portable stove Roman.

[JasonJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4HipQW62CY