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-two years ago)
― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)
yes, i know that us yanks aren't ones to lecture anyone on that point ...
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (eleven years ago)
yeah, this is awful :-(
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:34 (eleven years ago)
Just wretched.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:01 (eleven years ago)
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 (eleven years ago)
good point, planes are like the charismatic megafauna of transport
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:12 (eleven years ago)
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 (eleven years ago)
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 (eleven years ago)
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 (eleven years ago)
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 (eleven years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
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 (three years ago)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68402139
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 07:15 (two years ago)
""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."