Re: "Going Seoul-searching"

["Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>]

The Post has never been a DNC organ!
It started out as Conservative Paper and stayed that way even after
picking up Washington Stars staff when they went under.

I know both newspaper very well including the history breaking up the Star.
and the raiding and stealing the Stars Employee Pension plans
Which the President at the time from Riggs Bank participated in the asset
stripping.

The Times is a protect paper so far to the right wing that I can see how
many
tag the Post as DNC supporter.  They have supported everything involving RW
causes
and their editorials are so full of unsubstanciated
edict I cannot believe anyone would take them seriously.

Beware .. Big Brother is the one who owns the Voice...
now the FCC gave them more.
The scant of truth the Times prints makes it too hard to study and verify.

Dan Fahey



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Yared" <mikeyared@yahoo.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: "Going Seoul-searching"


> Well, the Washington Post is more of a DNC organ and
> too PC on the Korean War. Beside, the Washington Times
> have good articles on Korea (both) over the years.
> Mike
>
> --- Love Shack <Home@DanSources.com> wrote:
> > Washingon Times hmmm.
> > Never been able to believe anything they print.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Mike Yared" <mikeyared@yahoo.com>
> > To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:44 PM
> > Subject: "Going Seoul-searching"
> >
> >
> > Going Seoul-searching
> > By Willis Witter
> > THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> >
> http://www.washingtontimes.com/travel/20030530-084030-5756r.htm
> > Published May 31, 2003
> >
> >     SEOUL - Many Americans spend time in Seoul with
> > the U.S. military or on business. Only now is Seoul
> > beginning to realize its potential as a draw for
> > tourists as well.
> >     For those making their first trip to Asia - this
> > is the place to begin exploring the other side of
> > the
> > world.
> >     The city is clean and free of street crime;
> > people
> > have little need to worry about terrorists blowing
> > up
> > buildings full of people; and there is no SARS. In
> > one
> > week, a writer and a photographer saw no face masks
> > worn anywhere in the city, and that includes crowded
> > markets, restaurants and entertainment districts
> > that
> > teem with people day and night.
> >     Seoul, like the rest of Northeast Asia, is off
> > the
> > beaten path for the militant Islamists. Of course,
> > the
> > ever-hostile North Korea lies just 30 miles to the
> > north of Seoul, the sprawling capital of 20-plus
> > million residents and commuters that offers living
> > proof that South Korea won the Cold War.
> >     To appreciate how lopsided that victory was, the
> > first-time visitor must join the 150,000 or so
> > tourists who visit the demilitarized zone each year.
> > Tours in English are readily available to several
> > sites, including a peace park, mountain overlook and
> > North Korean infiltration tunnels big enough for a
> > two-lane highway. A visit to the truce village at
> > Panmunjom tops them all.
> >     It isn't much of a village, just a bunch of
> > simple
> > one-story huts, scrubbed and freshly painted in the
> > shade of baby blue that matches that of the U.N.
> > flag.
> > They sit in a tiny valley surrounded by guard towers
> > and observation posts manned on the other side by
> > real
> > North Korean soldiers. In crisp, pressed olive
> > uniforms, with pictures of North Korean leader Kim
> > Jong-il on the lapel, they stare at visitors with
> > furrowed brows, snarled lips and scowling eyes.
> >     When the guide takes visitors into one of the
> > huts, sometimes a North Korean soldier will stroll
> > up
> > to the window and glare inside. Try taking a picture
> > of the North Korean, but be quick. As soon as he
> > sees
> > a camera pointed in his direction, he runs away.
> >     The tours are well-organized. Tennis shoes,
> > bluejeans, shorts and other casual wear are
> > forbidden,
> > lest they provide images for North Korea's
> > propaganda
> > machine to illustrate America's decadence. The tours
> > come with a briefing from an American soldier, and
> > there are plenty of opportunities to peer at North
> > Korean guard posts atop rolling hills outside.
> >     There's a fake North Korean village, dubbed
> > "propaganda village" by U.S. and South Korean
> > troops.
> > No one lives there, but sometimes the North Koreans
> > bring in a busload of people to hang up some laundry
> > and otherwise hang out to fool the VIPs they bring
> > down from Pyongyang.
> >     A loudspeaker above the village blasts insults
> > at
> > the South, or classic communist propaganda. "Our
> > great
> > leader Kim Jong-il has done so much for us," it
> > blared
> > during a recent morning visit as pairs of white
> > Manchurian cranes frolicked overhead. The species is
> > said to be extinct everywhere except along the
> > 150-mile-long, 2.5-mile-wide demilitarized zone that
> > divides the peninsula. No one walks through the DMZ
> > except wildlife, except at Panmunjom - until
> > recently
> > the only land crossing between North and South Korea
> > along the entire length of the DMZ.
> >     Here, huge letters decorate mountain slopes
> > facing
> > south. "Our victory is for our sunshine general, Kim
> > Jong-il, hurray," says one mountain. Each boasts a
> > giant flag on a skyscraper-size flagpole. North and
> > South used to compete, building bigger and bigger
> > poles and flags until, presumably, the South decided
> > things had gotten out of hand.
> >     The North won that battle and today displays the
> > biggest flag on the tallest pole. The problem is
> > that
> > the flag weighs more than 600 pounds, meaning it
> > just
> > hangs like a wet dishrag unless a typhoon happens to
> > blow through.
> >     On the other side, the South Korean flag unfurls
> > in the gentle morning breeze.
> >     Panmunjom has a history of ax murders,
> > defections
> > and shootouts, but the last serious incident was 20
> > years ago when a defection by a Soviet officer, who
> > stepped across the line, triggered a firefight. One
> > can leave for Panmunjom early in the morning on a
> > tour
> > bus from Seoul and be back with plenty of time to
> > spare in the afternoon.
> >     The experience is guaranteed to be so grim that
> > Seoul will feel like paradise, and that's a good way
> > to begin exploring.
> >     Five royal palaces ring downtown Seoul, each
> > undergoing a massive restoration amid a nationwide
> > renaissance of appreciation for the country's
> > ancient
> > history. The walled compounds, with towering wooden
> > gates and curved tiled tops, defined the city a
> > century ago, when kings ruled and the aristocracy
> > lived in gilded splendor.
> >     At night, Seoul provides the cosmopolitan flare
> > of
> > dining, theater and nightclubs. There's also a
> > futuristic side of Seoul. Check out the area around
> > World Cup Stadium containing a power plant between
> > two
> > giant man-made mountain mesas - both former garbage
> > dumps. Atop one dump sits an 18-hole golf course,
> > and
> > atop the other is a public park. The green is so
> > lush
> > it's hard to believe garbage lies underneath, and
> > this
> > is where the power plant comes in.
> >     The plant makes electricity by burning off the
> > extracts from pipes deep underground. It supplies
> > power to the adjacent World Cup soccer stadium,
> > which
> > is being converted into an upscale retail mall with
> > luxury high-rise condos nearby.
> >     The 2002 World Cup - in which South Korea became
> > the first team from Asia to make the final four -
> > inspired the Seoul metropolitan government to begin
> > an
> > aggressive campaign to lure Western travelers. The
> > campaign, with the slogan "Hi Seoul," focuses on the
> > past, the present and, as with the reclaimed garbage
> > dump, the future.
> >     Seoul City Hall, an imposing gray building from
> > pre-World War II days when Japan ruled Korea as a
> > colony, is a good place to start.
> >     Inside the front door, the tourist can pick up
> > information on just about everything there is to do
> > -
> > written in English.
> >     A good subway guide and several maps are
> > available, including one that shows the location of
> > every public, self-sanitizing toilet in Seoul. The
> > toilets are like giant portable commodes except that
> > the entire interior gets sprayed with disinfectant
> > after each customer.
> >     Look for the yellow pamphlet titled Foreigner's
> > Favorite 10 Best Korean Foods. The brochure has
> > color
> > photos of all the delicacies so one can carry it
> > into
> > any restaurant and simply point to the picture.
> >     Topping the list is bulgogi, a sweet beef
> > barbecue, and somewhere in the middle is kimchi, the
> > fiery dish of pickled cabbage, cayenne pepper and
> > garlic, which is served with every Korean meal.
> > Other
> > favorites include galbi, in which meat from prime
> > beef
> > ribs is grilled over charcoal, and samgyetang, a
> > chicken dish without the hot spices. There also is a
> > sushilike dish called gimbab, and Korean-style
> > dumplings known as mandu.
> >     Though Seoul sprawls in all directions, its
> > ancient palaces and teeming markets lie within a
> > tight
> > circle just several miles wide, which framed the
> > city
> >
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