South Korea's parliament has impeached President Roh Moo-Hyun for endorsing a pro-government party and incompetence ahead of next month's general election.
Cripes, most of the US presidents would have been impeached for those two counts ten times over.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:05 (twenty years ago) link
yes, i know that us yanks aren't ones to lecture anyone on that point ...
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:38 (twenty years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8162862.stm
what is about this media reform bill that has caused so much anger?
― NI, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://jbhuang0604.blogspot.se/2013/04/miss-korea-2013-contestants-face.html
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:31 (ten years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nearly-300-mostly-high-school-students-missing-after-south-korean-ferry-sinks/
Fucking horrible
― 龜, Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this is awful :-(
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
Just wretched.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
Like it's weird - it's not as big a news event as say a plane crash, but the number of people feared dead is just as much (and probably more) than most recent airplane disasters
― 龜, Thursday, 17 April 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link
good point, planes are like the charismatic megafauna of transport
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
I saw some horrifying footage on BBC news today on a cracked phone of people sat waiting inside the severely listing ferry as per tannoy instructions, seemingly awaiting further instructions or rescue and without any hysteria or urgency, waiting for tons of steel to drag them under. There must have been hundreds of passengers who would have had a fighting chance of survival had they gone straight for the life boats.
When the Estonia went down in the Baltic in '94 the death toll was 852 yet Lockerbie will always be a more famous disaster with 270 victims in total. Air disasters always eclipse sinking ships, maybe it is because flight is still new in the human timeline whereas ships have been going down for thousands of years.
― xelab, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Here's a TV screencap of the captain being rescued, pretending to be a civilian passenger (he changed out of his uniform, even) while other passengers were waiting in their quarters.
http://image.chosun.com/sitedata/image/201404/19/2014041900717_1.jpg
― StanM, Sunday, 20 April 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/world/asia/in-sad-twist-on-proud-tradition-captains-let-others-go-down-with-ship.html?_r=0
― StanM, Sunday, 20 April 2014 09:09 (nine years ago) link
The stories about the kids' last minute phone calls to their parents and siblings drove me to tears... so heartbreaking.
― Roz, Sunday, 20 April 2014 10:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm 99% sure the Korean TV networks asked the presidential candidates to dab so they can create this piece of masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/J3Q6oDiFla— Sung Min Kim (@sung_minkim) May 9, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
at least 146 dead in Seoul as panic erupted during the massively overcrowded Halloween celebrations in the Itaewon part of town
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/29/itaewon-seoul-halloween-stampede/
― StanM, Saturday, 29 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68402139
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 07:15 (one month ago) link
""Sometimes at the weekends I go and get an IV drip, just to get enough energy to go back to work on Monday," she adds casually, as if this were a fairly normal weekend activity."