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Korea: Don't laugh at Dear Leader, SKorean athletes warned
AFP ^
| 08/20/08
Posted on 08/21/2008 6:09:44 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Don't laugh at Dear Leader, SKorean athletes warned
Wed Aug 20, 4:14 AM ET
South Korean Olympic athletes have been given detailed guidelines to avoid friction with their North Korean counterparts in Beijing, officials said Wednesday.
Contestants should not point or laugh at badges or portraits depicting North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il or his late father Kim Il-Sung, the (South) Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) says in a handbook.
"Refrain from pointing, touching or laughing at badges, portraits and remarks idolising the father and son," the booklet advises.
Athletes should also avoid using names like "South Korea" and "North Korea" or even the countries' official titles, the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" and "the Republic of Korea."
They should "maintain an attitude that is resolute and dignified while avoiding political issues in dialogue" when they meet North Korean counterparts, says the 150-page handbook which also covers a variety of other topics.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; etiquette; kimjongil; kimjungoompaloompa; northkorea; olympic
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:10:11 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They should do the exact opposite. Why would they do anything to “enable” the hideous regime in the North?
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:13:56 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: TigerLikesRooster
They should pay proper tribute by turning around, dropping trou, and farting in the general direction of North Korea’s fearless leader.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:14:39 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: TigerLikesRooster
You can be sure I would not be using terms like North Korea and South Korea. Instead I would use “axis of evil, mass murdering, desitned for hell, dictatorship with a crazy leader who we pray will enter the olimpic boxing competition so we can beat his unworthy butt into a pulp”.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:14:48 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(http://www.jeffhead.com/obama/nobamanation-sticker.jpg)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Tiger question is all right for American atheltics to goof on Chia Pet
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:17:33 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; Tamar1973; AmericanInTokyo; All
How about US Freepers putting Kim Jong 11 puppet on the forum and YOU Tube of him singing I am so roany
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:18:26 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
I hate it when I abuse the keyword option on a thread...
**slaps wrist**
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:20:10 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Satisfaction was my sin)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Do not taunt “Happy Fun Ball”!
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:20:35 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Vote for conservatives AT ALL POLITICAL LEVELS! Encourage all others to do the same on November 4!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Why is that when “People's” is in the official name of a country people aren't that important.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:21:01 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.***)
To: TigerLikesRooster
"Refrain from pointing, touching or laughing at badges, portraits...." the booklet advises. So I take it that spitting at them is OK.
To: TigerLikesRooster
So Ronery
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:24:17 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
("The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far away, but I will walk carefully.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
How ‘bout Americans? Can we point and laugh?
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:29:26 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
(Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:30:28 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Yes I think if it were me I’d be sure to take the photo of North Korea and South Korea at night and also make sure I told them that North Korea was the joke of the whole world.
To: nuconvert
I am sure you can.:-)
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:32:11 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Artemis Webb
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:34:23 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Obama "You sell your oldest friends. You sold your countrymen. And yet we know your name. Traitor!")
To: TigerLikesRooster
The only way I could keep from laughing would be if he could show up dressed in something other than pajamas and would get a haircut. Then it would still be might hard.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Would it be OK to place Kim urinal targets and Dear Leader TP rolls up in the toilets?
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:41:13 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
To: ThomasThomas
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:52:44 PM PDT
by
ROTB
(Our Constitution [is] for a [Christian] people. It is wholly inadequate [for] any other. -John Adams)
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