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Offline taeyang

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Kim Jong Il has died
« on: December 19, 2011, 11:13:01 am »
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 11:15:47 am »
I was just going to post this. My VP had already announced an emergency protocol at school. Not sure what might come of this.
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Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2011, 11:19:02 am »
My co-teachers just informed me that Kim Jong Il passed away. The environment is a little overjoyed in the office.. The information was just released in Korea, although the death happened last Saturday at 8:00. 

How will things change?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2011, 11:25:01 am »
Quote from: K on December 19, 2011, 11:19:02 am
My co-teachers just informed me that Kim Jong Il passed away. The environment is a little overjoyed in the office.. The information was just released in Korea, although the death happened last Saturday at 8:00. 

How will things change?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693


Reunified Korea will come very soon....
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Re: Kim Jong Il Dies (What Happens Next)
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2011, 11:32:29 am »
How about checking if this has already been posted.  Also, how about not double-posting in 2 different sub-forums?
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2011, 11:47:23 am »
I hope there really is a hell.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2011, 11:50:55 am »
Feels like Christmas just came early to the ROK.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2011, 11:51:17 am »
Reunified Korea was supposed to happen when his father died, when Kim Dae Jung was voted president, and when Ban Ki Moon took over the UN.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2011, 11:52:42 am »
I'm actually a little concerned that his son might do something dramatic to try to prove himself and seize power, in a sense.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2011, 11:52:42 am »
Quote from: unknownx on December 19, 2011, 11:25:01 am
Quote from: K on December 19, 2011, 11:19:02 am
My co-teachers just informed me that Kim Jong Il passed away. The environment is a little overjoyed in the office.. The information was just released in Korea, although the death happened last Saturday at 8:00. 

How will things change?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693


Reunified Korea will come very soon....

Pretty bold prediction!
It will be interesting to see.
I think the current state of NK's economy will prevent SK from agreeing to reunify anytime soon.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2011, 11:57:15 am »
Guess his evil son will just carry on his evil work. So sad that it probably won't make any difference to the lives of the poor people of NK, in fact it may just make it worse.  :(
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2011, 11:57:30 am »
Reunification would be the very worst thing to happen if it came soon. It would cripple SK's economy.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2011, 12:09:42 pm »
My VP is scared, not sure if I should be too or not.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2011, 12:15:12 pm »
It's interesting times on the Peninsula, for sure.  There's so many different directions things could take that it's hard to predict--not that I'm a major expert on anything anyway.  Would love to hear frmo long-timers or people who've really studied Korean/East Asian history/politics and have some perspective to put on this.

I'd be lying if I said my first thought wasn't "Damn, I hope this doesn't f*ck up the currency exchange rate," but let's hope the impact is limited to the economy and doesn't escalate into something worse.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2011, 12:28:41 pm »
There's another dent in the exchange rate.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2011, 12:34:20 pm »
Quote from: Damien on December 19, 2011, 12:28:41 pm
There's another dent in the exchange rate.

Yeah, just saw that.   :(

What's everyone's opinion--transfer what you've got now while it's still worth something or wait for things to even out?
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Re: Hey did you guys hear that Kim Jon Il died?
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2011, 12:54:19 pm »
Quote from: justanotherwaygook on December 19, 2011, 12:28:04 pm
No.  Now I'm going to go start a thread on waygook.org to tell everyone about it.

Do you think NK will be better off?
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2011, 12:54:19 pm »
just happens to be current President Lee Myung Bak's birthday too
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Re: Hey did you guys hear that Kim Jon Il died?
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2011, 12:56:22 pm »
Quote from: marsavalanche on December 19, 2011, 12:54:19 pm
Quote from: justanotherwaygook on December 19, 2011, 12:28:04 pm
No.  Now I'm going to go start a thread on waygook.org to tell everyone about it.

Do you think NK will be better off?

Not sure.  Let me start a thread on that, as well.
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Re: Kim Jong Il has died
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2011, 12:58:54 pm »
Now I want to expedite my planning to come work in Korea in January... perhaps I am a bit off.

If anyone is interested, as this seems to be the trending thread on the issue, here are some videos of the press release out of NK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFladahSDs

http://news.kbs.co.kr/special/general/2011/kimjungil/2011/12/19/2406322.html
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