Sunday, July 10, 2005
WHO IS THIS ANGRY LOOKING MAN?
He's Na Sôk-ju, a Korean patriot. According to the explanatory plaque, Na “throwing grenades and firing a pistol staged a single-handed attack on the office of the Oriental Development Company.” When was this statue erected? 1999. Not sure what this might say about the development of friendly relations between Korea and Japan.
COALITION OF THE WILLING
Sometimes we may forget that the ROK provides the third largest number of troops in the occupation of Iraq. Not that there was much sign of awareness of it here in Korea either. Except for this advertisement for the Korea Exchange Bank