スイスでは、チョンを見たら犯罪者だと思えが常識。 Swiss Cops 'Humiliated Korean Student' http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200502/200502240041.html The embassy said a Korean exchange student it identified as Lee was forced to submit to a strip search and physical abuse when he was on a train from France to the northern Swiss town of Basle on Feb. 18. Lee complained on the website of the Korean Embassy in the Swiss capital of Berne two days later. He explained that police suspected the powdered nutritional supplements he was carrying were heroin. According to Lee, Swiss border guards dragged him into their office and although a drug test turned up negative forced him to kneel on the ground naked, kicking and slapping him several times when he did not immediately do as they told him.
The embassy said a Korean traveling in Lucerne in November 2003, who was subjected to improper treatment at the hands of Swiss police after being accused of using counterfeit money.
Korean, Asiana Rank Low in 30-Year Airline Safety Survey Feb.25,2005 http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200502/200502250029.html Local carriers Korean Air and Asiana Airlines ranked a poor 43rd and 32nd in terms of airline safety by the German flight magazine Aero International (AI). AI reached its results based on International Civil Aviation Organization statistics such as numbers of accidents, fatalities, flights and passengers. The No. 1 airline was Australia's famously safe Qantas, while Turkish Airlines finished last. Finland's Finnair, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific and Japan's ANA followed Qantas on AI's list. Virgin Atlantic and Southwest Airlines of the U.S. and British Airways rounded out the top 10. Turkish Airlines sat alongside Egypt Air, Air India and Taiwan's China Airlines at the bottom of the rankings.
http://www.iaae.org/publications/pdf/iaae_2001_08.pdf FAA downgrades Korean Air safety rating The FAA placed the restrictions--including a ban on expanding U.S. service--on South Korean airlines. The FAA said only that Category 2 ratings are given to countries in which civil aviation authorities lack the regulations, qualified personnel, technical expertise, resources or documentation to meet international standards. South Korean civil aviation authorities had failed to provide the oversight needed to meet the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Korean Air jet may have narrowly missed disaster Pilots on Korean Air Flight 85 mistakenly issued a hijack alert at 1:24 p.m. ET as they neared Alaska on the way to Anchorage. Military officials, who had ordered two F-15 fighters to tail the jet, told Anchorage air traffic controllers that they would shoot it down if it did not turn away from populated areas, several sources told USA TODAY. During the next 90 minutes, officials on the ground launched evacuations in Anchorage, at the Trans Alaska Pipeline and in Whitehorse, the capitol of Canada's Yukon Territory. Scanning every communication it transmitted that day, it found something suspicious sent by the Korean jet. The Seoul-to-New York flight was headed for a refueling stop in Anchorage. In a message sent at 11:08 a.m. ET to Korean Air's base, the pilots included the letters "HJK" — a code for hijacked. Instead of reassuring controllers, the Korean pilots declared themselves hijacked at 1:24 p.m. They set their transponder, which transmits information about the flight to radars, to the four-digit universal code for hijacked — 7500. Suddenly, more than an hour after the skies emptied over the lower 48 states, a routine flight became a potential new attacker. With two F-15s tracking Flight 85, NORAD officers told officials at the Anchorage center that they would shoot down the airliner if it continued, the sources said. Air traffic officials ordered the jet to turn wide of Alaska's largest city. Canadian air traffic officials agreed to let the jet land there, but its approach set off a new wave of evacuations.
NORTH & SOUTH KOREA BIZ = PEACE IN FUTURE? Feb 10, 2005
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_6818.shtml At the moment, according to New York Times 【Norimitsu Onishi】 reporting from Seoul, South Korea, "The first products made jointly by South and North Korea since the peninsula was divided half a century ago stainless steel pots priced at $19 a pair - went on sale at a department store here recently. They sold out in two days.
SOUTH KOREA: Analysts fret over management ethics as Hyundai Motor Group chief's son appointed to head Kia The son of Hyundai Motor Group chairman Chung Mong-koo was picked on Friday to head affiliate Kia Motors Corp., a move some analysts reportedly said was likely to deepen worries about management ethics in South Korea. http://www.just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=47277
IMF Fiscal Transparency Republic of Korea http://www.imf.org/external/np/rosc/kor/fiscal.htm Korea falls short in some key areas of fiscal transparency. As the effects of *the 1997 financial crisis are now waning, the staff proposed that the government should take the opportunity to reassess and more clearly define its fiscal role.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,881746,00.html Trial by new media on the eve of the tournament, he was given his marching orders as a result of a report that appeared in another country, another language and another medium. Fred had probably never heard of OhmyNews until the influential South Korean online news site brought about his downfall with a withering criticism of one of the World Cup preview stories that he had written for the Japan Times. That story - an introduction to Seoul - began with Fred reminiscing about being propositioned by a prostitute during his first visit to the South Korean capital. It was exactly the kind of old-fashioned, run-down, sleazy image that the host nation - which has never been more self-confident or assertive - did not want to present to the world. The URL of the offending article was sent anonymously to Bae Eul-sun of OhmyNews, who criticised the contents and the writer online in her own trademark aggressive style. Although Ms Bae had not called for Fred to lose his job, her article spawned a furious online campaign for his dismissal.
キタ━━━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━━━ !!!!! Fred's Korean wife received email death threats and the South Korean embassy in Tokyo twice visited the Japan Times to demand action.
Fred Varcoe, 46, is a London-born journalist who has lived in, or spent extended periods of time in Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan. After working for nearly three years as a feature writer for Home and Away magazine in London, he joined The Japan Times in May 1987, specializing in rock music and sports and rising to the position of Sports Editor. After upsetting the Korean government with a piece on Seoul in the May 13, 2002, edition of The Japan Times, he was given the option of resigning or being fired. In order to maintain his "journalistic integrity," he refused to resign. He was dismissed from the company effective May 31 and was fired officially on July 4 for reasons that included "insulting the honor of South Korean women." He is married to a South Korean woman.
Nowadays many supermarkets and departments stores in Bangkok overflow with "Japanese food" such as sushi and green tea, in funny Japanese brand names. You may be surprised to know that they are not made by Japanese people. Actually, they are produced by Koreans or Taiwanese in Thailand. The Japanese traditionally shy away from large establishments. Rather, they prefer cosy, quiet bistros or restaurants. And they adopt city names, personal nicknames, etc, as brand names. I am not saying that the current abundance of "Japanese food" supported by large advertisements on TV and radios, is of substandard or inferior quality. I am writing only to let innocent Thai consumers know of the true identity of these products. KATSUMI SAITO