Dokdo Golf
An amusing display of nationalism (via Ampontan):
With nationalism at a fever pitch in the country, O2 Resort, a golf course in Taebaek, Gangwon, put a Korean flag in the Dokdo part of a Korean Peninsula-shaped bunker at its 18th hole, and is using it as promotion.
In other islet dispute news, a revision made last week to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names’ website that classified the disputed islets as territory belonging to no country has been overturned by President Bush after South Korea’s government officially complained about it. The move is clearly an attempt to pander to South Koreans ahead of Bush’s visit to their country next week, and it might succeed in reducing the amount of protests during his visit.
The Japanese government has responded in its usual calm manner:
“We don’t necessarily think we have to react excessively every time one organisation of the US government does something,” Japanese government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura told reporters in Tokyo.
“The Japanese government does not believe that the change in this statement on the website reflects a change in the position taken by the United States.”
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I wonder how much Korea will be delighted (and Japan dismayed) when they’ve been fooled into thinking America has taken a new position for this issue, when it probably is only a sleight-of-bureaucratic-hand to make the Koreans feel good (right before the beef-talks) by changing absolutley nothing.
In the meantime … I bet Freedom Fries would taste great while playing Dokdo Golf!
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Freedom fries, hell yeah! This is Amurica, we don’t need any of that cheese eating surrender monkey French stuff around here.
Wait, what?
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How about the first country who actually hits a golf ball in that small of a bunker gets it?
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Is this really that serious? I thought national governments looked at economical gain first? What can they possibly gain from having this island in their territory other than making a few extreme nationalists happy?
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