South Korea to build bigger robot than Japan
This giant robot project was supposedly started before Japan’s giant robot statues, but it’s being blogged about as a challenger to Japan’s robot landmarks:
The statue will be of Taekwon V, known stateside as Voltar the Invincible, and will stand some 364 feet tall, making it not only much bigger than the 59 and 60 foot statues in Japan, but roughly three times as tall as the Statue of Liberty itself. Giant robots are more important than freedom and liberty. I think that’s the message that’s being sent here.
The robot will be erected in the middle of something called Robot Land, a theme park in Incheon that’s entirely devoted to everything and anything that has to do with robots. “Fun & Fantasy with Robot” is the English motto for the place, which should serve no doubt as the place where the robot uprising will begin when it opens to the public, along with its giant mascot, in 2013.
Taekwon V is a copy of Japanese giant robot Mazinger Z, created in an era when Japanese copyright holders could not prevent Korean animators from “borrowing” their ideas.
As a symbol of Korean patriotism, Taekwon V has been active in defending the Liancourt Rocks from vile Japanese savages:
[hat tip to Aceface]
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Once again, the South Koreans trying to justify how their epeen is bigger. I can’t wait to see an insurgent plot involving this giant robot statue.
It would be funnier to watch than most of the giant robot animes from Japan, even.
In further news, North Korea announced they will be building a giant statue of Pulgasari, 150 meters tall, even bigger than Taekwon V! South Korea will of course retaliate with a bigger statue of something until, eventually, under the weight of increasingly gigantic robot and monster statues the entire Korean peninsula sinks into the ocean, leaving nothing but a few giant heads above the surface which are then noted on maps as ship navigational hazards.
“entire Korean peninsula sinks into the ocean”
haha I can fix that
What’s humorous is that there is also a news link at the top of the main Japan Probe website, about Korean claims to Manchuria, which seems to be amusing Chinese.
Anyhow, it seems that whenever the Koreans engage in stereotyping and stirring up animosities, it is under the guise of ‘patriotism’ or the like.
But when Japanese engage in stereotyping and whatnot, it is an example of Japanese xenophobism and racism, lol.
Nah. All the expats in Korea call for the bullshit it is as well.
Holy crap that is big.
Well, I am definitely not expecting it to start leaning or be uprooted and knocked down by strong gusts of wind across the broad surface or collapse under its own weight from the reinforcements to withstand the wind or catch on fire from all the lights and smoke that’s sure to be included to dwarf the gimmicks on the gundam. Nope. No siree.
I wonder when Korea will go bankrupt in this game of one-uppance against Japan.
I wouldn’t care that much. These days, Korean nationalism is the only way to politely say “I hate President Lee Myeong Bak’s administration”.
Ok, so when can these things move and engage in robot to robot combat?
Pea #1 “My Penis-Hat has 10,000 Points!!”
Pea #2 “Well My Penis-Hat has 20,000 Points!!”
Pea #3 “Erm, what can you do with your Penis-Hats?”
*shrug* *shrug*
1:my grandpa is the tallest grandpa in the world! he is 20 metter tall!
2:my grandpa is much taller than yours! he can touch cloud with his hand!
3:hm… were those clouds soft and warm? 2: yes! he said so.. 3:hmmmm.. well, he touched eggs of my grandpa!
Hey… my country has more geeks and weirdos than yours… so there!
… proud?
eh…. I’m Korean (American) and even I find that commercial pretty tacky. Especially the dialogue at the end.
1) “If you misbehave, you’ll get punished” (usually spoken to unruly children).
2) “Dokdo is not by itself” (i.e. Dokdo is not alone)
Seesh… couldn’t make it anymore jingoistic could they.
Not just the robot, but the Koreans also “invented” kimbap ***cough**sushi**, apparently, as my Korean friend always try to convince me…
I really don’t understand the people here.
The post says that the Korean robot was planed before the Japanese robots, than wouldn’t this mean that it is Japan that is trying to compete with Korea?
Possibly. After all, South Korea is also the “other” country that has a huge robo-subculture.
SIZE DOES NOT MATTER!
What don’t the Koreans understand about how bad it is to keep PAKing everything?
I do feel sorry for Korea, a totally confused place. Needs about another 200 years to settle that place – look at Italy! hahahahaha
nothing compared to to naked furby
Scary Robot
Ugur Skeite
Once again another site that doesn’t link to my article, from which this story originates.
http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=13469
I’ve seen this story posted on dozens of sites and yet my story has only a couple hundred views because no one links to the source. Annoying.