Korea Thread: Liberal Moon Jae In Elected

[Syt]

How do Chinese express "all vehicles"?

[jimmy olsen]

Koreans learn a couple of thousand CHinese symbols even now. I imagine that literate Koreans (an elite minority back then) knew even more.

[Admiral Yi]

Japanese colonial rule, a time in which all education in Korea was conducted in the Japanese language, only ended 6 years before the start of the Korean War.

[Monoriu]

How do Chinese express "all vehicles"?

Since you asked:

Chinese
所有車

Japanese
諸車

[Syt]

Is there a difference in words? E.g. "every single vehicle" vs. "all vehicles?"

[Monoriu]

Is there a difference in words? E.g. "every single vehicle" vs. "all vehicles?"

You need to ask someone with a better understanding of Japanese for that.  But it is very common that Chinese words have different meaning in the Japanese language.  A character means soup in Chinese.  The same character in Japanese means hot water.  What the Chinese regard as "new rice" means "newbie" in Japanese. 

[Syt]

A character means soup in Chinese.  The same character in Japanese means hot water.

Sounds like a derogatory remark on the quality of Chinese cuisine.

[DGuller]

A little surprised about the Chinese characters under the English signs (they mean all vehicles stop). 

Maybe it was an attempt to stop the Chinese offensive?

[DGuller]

A character means soup in Chinese.  The same character in Japanese means hot water.

Sounds like a derogatory remark on the quality of Chinese cuisine.

[Tonitrus]

Reports: North Korea executes defense chief
Hyon Yong Chol is executed in public in front of hundreds of people

By KJ Kwon and Hilary Whiteman CNN

SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -
North Korea has publicly executed the country's defense minister after the regime accused him of treason, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

Hyon Yong Chol was killed by firing squad using an anti-aircraft gun at a military school in front of hundreds of people in Pyongyang around April 30, the agency reported, citing a media briefing by the National Intelligence Service at its headquarters in Seoul.

Hyon "was purged for lese majeste" because he was seen "dozing off" during a military event and "did not carry out Kim's instructions," the agency said. It wasn't clear what instructions Hyon failed to carry out.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been accused of ordering the executions of as many as 15 top officials so far this year.

However, during a rare trip to Pyongyang last week, a top official dismissed the allegation as "malicious slander."

"Especially because they tried to link the alleged statement to the august name of our Supreme Leader Marshall Kim Jong Un," said Park Yong Chol, the deputy director of the DPRK Institute for Research into National Reunification.

However, he did not deny that executions take place for crimes of treason or subversion: "It is very normal for any country to go after hostile elements and punish them and execute them.

CNN cannot independently confirm the execution claims as North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world.

[Tonitrus]

using an anti-aircraft gun

Apparently, one of these babies:

[jimmy olsen]

Folks were just talking about this in the office.

[Monoriu]

I think Kim is doing experiments on different execution methods. 

[Tonitrus]

Morters...AA guns...next they'll strap some top admiral to one of those new sub-launched missiles of theirs.

[jimmy olsen]

using an anti-aircraft gun

Apparently, one of these babies:

At least death would be instant if you got shredded by that.