Timeline for What does the most common usage of 'Korea' mean in modern-day English-speaking world?
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| Dec 18, 2011 at 22:20 | vote | accept | Ankur Banerjee | ||
| Dec 18, 2011 at 22:20 | vote | accept | Ankur Banerjee | ||
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| Dec 17, 2011 at 21:12 | comment | added | Jonathan Van Matre | True that - Park Chung-hee - but I don't think it's widely known enough to make the aforementioned phrase ambiguous. | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | hippietrail | Actually at least one former president of South Korea is often referred to as having been a dictator. At least this is what I've noticed after becoming more Korea-aware after a few trips and a few months there. Not aware enough to remember which president though (-: | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 19:58 | comment | added | Jonathan Van Matre | Perhaps you took "walled mudflat" as derogatory. It was not...rather it was a simple reference to NK's famously extensive coastal mud flats. As for "dictator", I stand by the assertion that it is the one word that if you only said "Korean dictator" it would be interpreted as unambiguously meaning the North. Again, no judgment expressed or intended. In no way did I profess "dictators good" or "dictators bad". The post was not a polemic. | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 19:40 | comment | added | Jonathan Van Matre | "Economical, cultural, and political walled garden" is a statement of well-established fact about how NK conducts its affairs. It's no more a political rant than saying that Egypt is currently seeing a growth of power among Islamist political parties. I made no subjective judgment about those facts, and they were germane to the explanation. Because NK tightly controls the flow of information in and out of the country, we have no North Korean soap operas to make the use of "Korean soap opera" for South Korean soap opera ambiguous. | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 19:24 | comment | added | Orion | How about the sentence that starts with "Owing to North Korea's status as an economical, cultural, and political walled garden..."? | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 19:11 | comment | added | Jonathan Van Matre | Please indicate what qualifies here as a "political rant". | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 18:56 | comment | added | Orion | -1 For unnecessary political rant. | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 16:24 | history | answered | Jonathan Van Matre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |