Students Among Hundreds Missing After South Korean Ferry Sinks

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I am as well....were the captain or any of the crew on the Costa Concordia Asian? It's hard to imagine any disaster 'going well' when so few people are actually trained both physically and mentally to handle one....regardless of race or creed. Maybe if one had grown up in the ruins of a war-torn nation with death and destruction all around it'd give them certain a mental edge in times of extreme stress.

Korea hasn't been a war-torn nation for over sixty years. I lived and worked there and it's as modern as any country out there.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I actually posted about it a few hours after it happened in the Weird News thread. Saw an article today that said they have issued an arrest warrant for the Captain and 2 crew members

I'm not sure why a tragedy that cost three hundred lives would go in the "weird news thread." I find that vaguely offensive, like it's almost trivializing it. This isn't like a guy getting his junk stuck in a vacuum or something. Have you put other mass casualty tragedies in this thread?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Korea hasn't been a war-torn nation for over sixty years. I lived and worked there and it's as modern as any country out there.

Off topic, but I always admired South Korea for its ability to build a powerhouse nation from such extreme poverty. It was devastated by two almost-consecutive multi-nation wars. If you look at what Korean food is made of, you can see the impact of poverty on aspects of its culture. But now, it is one of the most modern nations on earth, and in my opinion the best nation for business as well.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Wh.....

Never said it was. I was saying that some things may naturally condition someone, hypothetically, for dealing better with stressful and threatening situations....like growing up in one. Wasn't referring to any country in particular.

Ah okay. Misunderstood. My apologies then.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Off topic, but I always admired South Korea for its ability to build a powerhouse nation from such extreme poverty. It was devastated by two almost-consecutive multi-nation wars. If you look at what Korean food is made of, you can see how much it is rooted in poverty. But now, it is one of the most modern nations on earth, and in my opinion the best nation for business as well.

Yep. They actually have a stew which roughly translates as "war stew" or army stew. It contains spam and other rations the US army brought with them during the Korean War. They'd throw it all together and make a soup out of it. And spam is still extremely popular there.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I would even bet I've spent more time there than you have, but no matter.

6 and a half years?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Yep. They actually have a stew which roughly translates as "war stew" or army stew. It contains spam and other rations the US army brought with them during the Korean War. They'd throw it all together and make a soup out of it. And spam is still extremely popular there.

I'm Chinese, and I joke that Korean cuisine makes use of things that even Chinese cooks would throw away.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

More..in total.

Hmmm. I wouldn't be surprised if I met you in real life then. Small ex-pat world and all that.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

If that's your frame of reference, how old are you? And when were you there? They're working on creating a 5G network now, which would be by far the fastest Internet in the world.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Okay, are you just trolling now? How come you won't answer my questions?

The vague replies and dumb, dated jokes schtick is starting to get a tad annoying.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Sorry, but I was trying to have a serious discussion and I was asking you questions about your time there because I was interested, and instead you kept replying with silly 'old razz' jokes that were dated by two or three decades. So to be honest, yeah I do find that grating.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

And why do you keep deleting and reposting the same post??

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Genius...I KNEW they were dated...that was the ******* joke. You're batting a thousand, you know that? Good bye.

Jesus, sometimes this place makes me facepalm so hard. Not exactly quick to pick up social cues, huh? We could have had a substantive discussion, but instead you had to show off your brilliant, thread derailing "wit."

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

And is there a reason you have reposted the same post about twenty times now? It's not even a good post.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Okay. You're insane. Have a great life. Please. Repost your stunningly profound post one more time. I'm sure someone missed it the first ten times.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I'm not sure why a tragedy that cost three hundred lives would go in the "weird news thread." I find that vaguely offensive, like it's almost trivializing it. This isn't like a guy getting his junk stuck in a vacuum or something. Have you put other mass casualty tragedies in this thread?

Well I put it there because I thought it was Weird that a modern ship sunk in this day in age although it has been pointed out to me that it happens more often than I thought. Also because of the drama that happened with me I'm less apt to start a new thread because I don't want drama from the admins

 

[Teelie]

The teacher who organized the trip committed suicide.

A high school vice-principal rescued from the capsized South Korean ferry has been found hanged, according to police.

Kang Min-Kyu, 52, was one of more than 300 teachers and students on board the Sewol ferry and was reported missing on Thursday night.

His body was found near the school gymnasium on Jindo island where many of the relatives and rescued people have been staying, according to Yonhap news agency.

Police officers reportedly found a suicide note in Mr Kang's wallet.

Yonhap reported the note read: "Surviving alone is too painful while 200 remain unaccounted for. I take full responsibility. I pushed ahead with the school trip.

"I will once again become a teacher in the afterlife for my students whose bodies have not been discovered."

The group from Danwon High School, in Ansan city south of Seoul, were going on an excursion to the resort island of Jeju.

 

[Quasimod0]

Wow That's really sad

 

[BestGirl]

Wow That's really sad

Quite the overreaction, though. All he wanted to do was take a school trip. It wasn't his fault the captain was an irresponsible idiot.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Yeah, it is not as if the teacher had anything to do with the accident at all. Maybe the survivor's guilt was too much to bear in this case.

 

[Teelie]

It sounds like survivors guilt to me. He was another victim of this and not a perpetrator but felt he was responsible for the lost lives.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Empathizing with him even in the slightest is depressing. I can understand how being him would've been too much.

 

[Alex_Spider]

I'm not sure why a tragedy that cost three hundred lives would go in the "weird news thread." I find that vaguely offensive, like it's almost trivializing it. This isn't like a guy getting his junk stuck in a vacuum or something. Have you put other mass casualty tragedies in this thread?

My thoughts exactly.

If that's your frame of reference, how old are you? And when were you there? They're working on creating a 5G network now, which would be by far the fastest Internet in the world.

So the rest of us can move on to what's important, that okay with you? I have no interest in talking with you about anything else, especially with your mythical powers of comprehension, so stop f'ing asking already. 'Kay, sport?

I don't get it, what exactly went wrong here. All JJJ asked you was a genuine interest about your time in Korea. I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

[Warhammer]

Holy s***, everything about this accident is depressing.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I can't imagine living with that much grief. God rest his soul.