Takeshima/Dokdo: The comedy continues
Posted by ampontan on Saturday, March 24, 2007
A reader sent in some links to a Sapporo blog called Suika Dorobo (Watermelon Thief), and while wandering around the site I found this post called “Look, polar bears, Dokdo belongs to Korea”. SD displays a photo of the members of a Korean Arctic expedition team holding up a sign that reads, “Dokdo is our land”, during their trip to the North Pole.
Hey, I told you this was all part of a Korean comedy routine!
SD also links to a Japanese-language site about affairs on the Korean peninsula, where the blogger uses that snapshot for a Photoshop workout. You can see some of the truly inspired results here. The caption on the sign in the next to last photo reads, “We love Japan” (the background was taken at the Mt. Fuji summit) and the caption in the last photo reads, “2005 South Korean commemorative photo corner.
The watermelon thief makes the trenchant observation that the Koreans are capable of doing this everywhere on the planet except The Hague.
jion999 said
It is a very interesting difference between Japanese and Korean. Japanese trys to study about many historical documents and explain why Takeshima should belong to Japan.
Korean does not like that. Korean is different. Demonstration and performance and singing and shouting and cutting fingers and committing suicide.
James A said
I remember when that Korean women’s skating team did the same thing at the Asia games, except they were targeting China over the whole “Baekdusan” deal. The Chinese netizens came up with some equally entertaining photoshopped images.
Whenever I see Koreans holding up signs saying “blank” is our land, images that merge Don Quixote and Christopher Columbus come to mind.