Korea Thread: Liberal Moon Jae In Elected

[Jacob]

Jake that story doesn't make a ton of sense.  Xi shouldn't need to be told that SK was spooked over the launch.  I suspect the reality is simpler.  Lil Kim has called China's bluff.  China isn't going to collapse the regime no matter what.  Xi has nothing to say to SK to provide meaningful assurance.

The thrust of the story wasn't that Xi didn't know SK was spooked. It was the Korean president reached out to Xi and he didn't take the call due to internal bungling.

[Ed Anger]

"We don't need you to like us. Thanks. We don't like you either," writes another Weibo user. "That's okay. You've always been our least favorite province," commented another.

Sounds like Chinese Spicey and Chinese Ed respectively.

I'd be way more racist.

[CountDeMoney]

Actual slide from Ed's last trip to Korea

[Ed Anger]

 

I sorta want go now. I like the nips better though.

[CountDeMoney]

C'mon, man...



Where else are you going to find a restaurant with 4 waiters taking your order?

[Ed Anger]

The decor is dreadful.

[Razgovory]

Looks like Kim is a smoker.

[Jacob]

C'mon, man...



Where else are you going to find a restaurant with 4 waiters taking your order?

I saw something like this in China too. It was hilarious.

We were in this super nice bookstore (Fang Suo Commune). It's basically a big box bookstore from when they came out first and we're nice and successful kicked up anothrthe notch).

Anyhow, we were there early one morning to look for kids' books for the flight back home and there was this military dude with a bunch stars on his shoulders surrounded by another ten or twenty dudes with slightly less bling on their uniforms, plus a couple of photographers touring the bookstore. The store manager and a few other reps where with them as well.

The big guy was being shown around, occasionally stopping to issue comments in a tone like he was haranguing the idle oldest son for failing to live up to expectations in a Kung fu film or something. All the lesser lights were furiously taking notes every time he spoke... the thing was, he was saying things like "why are these books arranged like this? Are you stupid? If you had them this other way that would be much better" to the manager of the book store.

I bought it pretty hilarious that this General or colonel or whatever he was felt it important to opine gruffly on retail displays with such vigour, but apparently that sort of thing is not uncommon.

L'il Kim is probably giving his thoughts in the colour of the upholstery or something.

[jimmy olsen]

Lotte World Tower. 545.5 meters (1819 feet) tall.

[Jacob]

Looks like a river to me...?

[Admiral Yi]

Is that being built on Kangnam Timmy?

[grumbler]

Looks like a river to me...?

Looks fake.

[jimmy olsen]

Is that being built on Kangnam Timmy?

It just opened last week.

It's in Songpa-gu, southeastern Seoul where the olympics were held.

[Eddie Teach]

Looks out of place.

[Monoriu]

I love tall buildings.  Humanity's destiny is to combat ever increasing insufficiency resulting from an ever increasing population.  It is a battle that humanity is doomed to lose, but the greatest beauty possible is that humans refuse to go down without a fight.  We must increase production and living capacity in whatever way possible.