[bucephalus]

"I'd rather think that I was right, just because otherwise it shows how much of an idiotic leftist culture they are becoming."

I was always a pretty severe anticommie but the Koreans actually out-anticommied me by a good distance, so I can appreciate what you mean. I'm not really worried about them becoming over leftie per se. Korea is probably in a kind of flux right now.

A month ago I unluckily bungled upon an antiwar demonstration in downtown Seoul. What was the placard that I saw the most? It was a picture of the hapless school girls who were killed in a US military accident last year. On the one hand the Korean's are tribal enough to put more stock in those two girls than a city worth of Iraqi kids. The antiwar crap only rides on top of other issues. Sorry for being a windbag.

[gcruse]

. Sorry for being a windbag.

Not windbag at all.  You write well and are on the scene.
Hope to hear a lot from you as Korea gets the next news cycle.

[Mamzelle]

As you're a direct source, I hope you continue to contribute. So we charge $400M/yr, which the Korean nat'ls then rec' in salaries? Of course, I don't have any idea what it costs to maintain our defenses there for a year...

I've been reading the Korea Herald and Times...what are these papers like for accuracy?