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I just found this English language Dokdo/Takeshima documentary on YouTube. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but here it is:
Part 1
Part 2
A few comments after watching the video:
Students asked about the issue
As the narrator describes “the level of knowledge” between Japanese and Korean students was “tremendously different.” To me, it […]
“If it means we’d have to drop our own Korea-centric name for the sea, we’d rather not do it:”
More than 60 percent of South Koreans oppose giving a neutral name to the East Sea, which Japan calls the Sea of Japan, a survey said Friday.
According to a public opinion poll conducted by the Christian Broadcasting […]
Hello readers, hope you’re having a happy holiday period! The Korea Herald ran this article today, in which it praises KTF’s “social contributions”:
Support for Korean history and culture
KTF offers three different “Think Korea” programs - “Goguryeo,” “Dokdo Belongs to Korea,” and “Love towards Koreans” - to enhance the image of Korea for the outside world. […]
Here’s a Dokdo video posted on YouTube a few days ago:
It’s amazing how someone could refer to a couple of pretty much insignificant rocks as the “life of Koreans.” Oh, ultra-nationalism, you wacky wacky thing.
In this YouTube clip, Korean rapper Tablo hears some foreigners who are daring to discuss the fact that there might be some sort of dispute over Dokdo’s ownership:
I don’t know what he says in Chinese and French, but the English evidence he states is pretty much worthless. Dokdo is Korean territory because it is […]
Cross-posted at Japanprobe:
As some of you who read Occidenalism/The Marmot may already know, blogger Gerry Bevers, who had devoted a great deal of his time conducting and posting research on the historical background of the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute, has been asked by the president of the South Korean university he works for to stop writing about […]
The Korea Times has an article up entitled Ullung-do: Island of Squid, Water, Wind and Mystery, in which readers are given a tour of the remote island. Dokdo is also mentioned in the article:
To complete the picture of the trip to Ullung Island, a few words should be said about Dokdo, which became famous […]
As Occidentalism has pointed out, there is a new article over at the Korea Times penned by foreigner who is basically spitting out Dokdo propaganda. Not only does he unquestionably support Korea’s claim to the islets, but he also advances the fiction of the Dokdo volunteer army. Either he’s badly misinformed, or he’s […]
South Korean banks and Dokdo-related ultranationalism? This article in the Dong-A Ilbo informs us that South Korean banks have been resorting to various cut-throat tactics to beat out the competition:
The competition to create new funds is fierce.
In the case of “salary transfer accounts,” which shook the banking world earlier this year, 10 such […]
The Chosun Ilbo has reported that South Korea’s newest multi-million dollar spy satellite was completely ignoring North Korea in the days before the nuclear test:
South Korea’s Arirang-2 satellite launched in July this year failed to take any pictures of North Korea at the time the reclusive country said it conducted a nuclear test, it emerged. […]
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