If you've landed in the 'bottle looking for some invective-laced wonderchicken perspective on the impeachment of Noh Moo Hyun here in Korea today, well, you're outta luck, my friends. At least for the moment.
I will opine that the sh-t is quite possibly going to hit the fan, though. Will it be a tipping point, where the resentment and anger at how badly this country is governed by the wrinkly old chaebol rent-boys finally spills out of the confucian cup? I don't know, and I've got beer to drink, but in the meantime you could do a lot worse than going here.
Next question becomes how at such a time of great national distress and instability could the country possibly endure an Assembly election? Shouldn't the save-the-fatherland conservatives see to it that it is canceled in the interest of "stability" and "economic growth" and "national defense," just like they said whenever they used tanks to do the same thing? (Remember that the GNP is the direct patrilineal descendent of the Democratic Justice Party (Min jeong dang) of Chun Doo Hwan, several sneaky transformations in the past.)
It all makes you wonder.
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More people are going to be in the streets for political protest than at any time since the June Struggle of 1986. Maybe that's the whole idea. "How do you hold an election with such chaos?"
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Interesting.
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woojay said
March 13, 2004 5:15 AM