Hi:
Never had a blog before other than a blog that was about rememoring your past. It was on rememory.com. Anyway, hope you will enjoy this one.
Hoping to set up a Toastmasters in Ulsan. It would be good to meet new people and help them along their English journey.
Been reading a lot about North Korea and different scenarios concerning the Cheonan incident. That's the South Korean boat that got blown out of the water and which no one is taking responsibility for.
I know America. Hey, I'm a Canadian who has a liberal arts degree who has been studying America for 40 odd years. I know everything from the gopusa to Obama little visa card dismemberment. (I tried to give five bucks to both camps last election. One accepted it and the other didn't . The guy with millions on millions accepted it.)
I know Korea better than Koreans. And it isn't because I lived here for ten plus years. And I ain't saying a lot since they don't have in their history the whole "know thyself" thingamajig that the Greeks bestowed on us when western civi was created 2000 odd years ago.
I really believe America didn't sink the boat. Other than that, it gets murky. I wouldn't for one second let anything by DPRK. (When you talk to top level guys on the south who just wants to do away with the NK's head honcho and all labor unionists are pinkoes and such.) There is no love lost between the south and the north especially in the older generation. Put another way, SK has been liberalized for over half a century and they have the decency to tell me "How can America be such wimps?" "They can't even defend what they created."
Oh by the way, that's Democratic People Republic of Korea. Which I find is an oxymoron since when a word is in a title it is because they are highly regarded and held in the highest esteem. I also for one second wouldn't pass it by America to use a tragedy as an excuse to rattle North Korea's saber. Because, at the end of the day, I think it could have been an accident and America and other international members of the investigative team were not objective enough in their analysis. That international team should have included Russia and or China from the beginning to make it stick. Otherwise, partisanship is the order of the day.
As for me, how can I truly measure the relative worth of anything if I don't see everything. Like for the Russian, they talk about a distress call many minutes before the calamitous explosion. And the explosion itself, the metal that took the brunt, is it blown inward or outward. I don't know.
