Friday, January 21, 2011

Facebook Spam - Korea Style

I participated in a one week special immersion camp for twenty girls who were in the 1st grade of Korean high school.  They were all fifteen years old.  When the camp finished, many of them created a facebook account just to friend and stay in contact with the native English teachers for the camp, so a couple of them friended me on facebook.

I was tagged in a note concerning the "East Sea / Sea of Japan" debate and think it is quite humorous.  Here is the note:
The Japanese people say, 97% of the world map marks' Sea of Japan ' so give up. But Korean people say, 3% of the world map marks ' East Sea'so we will start fighting. It doesn't take even 20 seconds to turn this. Just sacrifice a little time. Let's show the power of the Korean netizen to Japan.日本の人?は話す。世界の97% の地?はそれに印を付けて?念すると同時に' 日本海' 。しかし韓?の人?は話す。示す世界の開始' 東海' の3% の地?はこれをよく好むこと! それは回り、湧き出る! 20 初めてそれはつかまえられない。時ただ時間は日本にショ?を韓?の..netizen の力かなり投資する
I'm guessing the "It doesn't take even 20 seconds to turn this." means "it doesn't even take 20 seconds to repost this", but I got it.  Different language and different culture, same kind of facebook spam that doesn't actually make a difference in any way.  Funny the note that is being spread is in English and Japanese, but not Korean... probably because there aren't any Koreans out there that still need convincing?

Here's my take on Dokdo:

1 comment:

Joseph Smith said...

i LOVE gadgets in Pakistan, LOVE just spam and very ee-guhn (ripe) kimchi. When I was pregnant and didn't feel like eating anything I reverted back to childhood and ate spam & rice :)

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