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Date:
Wed, 16 January 2008 10:04 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Paris Hilton's Peace Spirit in Korea
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U.S. socialite Paris Hilton poses for
photographers during a news conference promoting FILA clothing at
the Hyatt Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 9, 2007.
(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
AP - Fri Nov 9, 2:33 AM
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South Korean
President Roh Moo-hyun (R) shakes hands with visiting North Korean
Prime Minister Kim Yong-il at the Blue House in Seoul November 16,
2007. North and South Korea, in the first meeting in 15 years of the
prime ministers of the two states technically at war, on Friday
agreed on more massive projects to help rebuild the North's broken
economy.
REUTERS/Kim Jae-hwan/Pool
(SOUTH KOREA) Reuters - Fri Nov 16, 2:53 AM ET
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North Korean Prime Minister Kim Yong-il
(L) signs joint declaration documents with his South Korean
counterpart Han Duck-soo during their meeting at a hotel in Seoul,
South Korea, November 16, 2007. The text on the wall translates as
"First Prime Ministers Meeting of South and North Koreas" .
REUTERS/Lee Jin-man/Pool
Reuters - Fri Nov 16,
4:27 AM ET |
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
Christopher Hill, center left, visits a subway station in
Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007. Hill, the
top U.S. nuclear negotiator for North Korea has visited its reactor,
becoming the highest-level American official to go there, an
official said Tuesday, amid progress in efforts to rid the communist
nation of nuclear programs. (AP Photo/Kyodo
News)
Tue Dec 4, 6:21 AM ET
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Paris Hilton's visit to North Korea on
November 2007 seems like spreading the spirit of peace to the peninsula,
because around the time of her visit there was also the "First Prime
Ministers Meeting of South and North Koreas" .
While a view days later, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
Christopher Hill visited a subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea
on
Tuesday, December 4, 2007, and becoming the highest-level American official
to go there.
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Date:
Wed, 16 January 2008 10:31 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
President Lee Myung Bak and the Bak Mandi
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South Korean presidential candidate
Lee Myung-bak of the conservative Grand National Party and his
wife Kim Yoon-ok cast their ballots in the presidential election at
a polling station in Seoul on Wednesday December 19, 2007. South
Koreans voted for a new president Wednesday in an election widely
expected to end a decade of liberal rule — if the nation can
overlook a scandal that has tainted the front-runner.
(AP Photo/KIM Jae-hwan,
POOL)
Tue Dec 18, 5:54 PM ET |
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Presidential
candidate Lee Myung-bak of the opposition Grand National Party(GNP)
gestures during a video conference with his party members at the GNP
headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007. South
Koreans voted for a new president Wednesday in an election widely
expected to end a decade of liberal rule if the nation can overlook
a scandal that has tainted the front-runner.
(AP Photo/Yonhap. Jin Sung-chul) Wed Dec 19,
2:29 AM ET |
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South Korean presidential candidate
Lee Myung-Bak (R) of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP)
is seen dancing while late Hyundai Group founder Chung
Ju-yung sings a song in this August 1981 handout picture released in
Seoul December 19, 2007. Right-wing businessman Lee overcame doubts
about his ethics to win South Korea's presidential election by a
landslide on Wednesday with promises to make voters better off and
to stand up to North Korea.
REUTERS/GNP/Handout
(SOUTH KOREA). EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
Wed Dec 19, 11:44 AM ET
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President-elect Lee Myung-bak,
second from right, of the conservative main opposition Grand
National Party, and his wife Kim Soon-ok , blow a candles to
celebrate his victory in the presidential election in Seoul, South
Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007.
(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Wed Dec 19, 9:57 AM ET
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The winning of new South Korean president Lee-Myung Bak on 19
December 2007 election surprised me
because it happened after I wrote my letter of "Two
Broken Souvenirs from Comel" on 17 December 2007. In that letter I
wrote: "......actually I managed to reassembled the broken pieces using
Fox white glue, but around one week after Comel died my sister dumped the
ceramic swan to the trash......"
Behind the word "trash" I did not put the word "can", because the trash
container in the house were made of brick wall, not of can like in the
U.S.
In Indonesian, the word for it is "bak sampah". There is also another
famous word connected with "bak", usually in the bath room, which is "bak mandi", a
rectangular box to contain water in the bathroom where people use dipper
to scoop the water and pour it to the body.
The word "bak mandi" also like containing the word "mandi" that can have
the meaning of "Firman Die". While new South Korean president
Lee Myung-bak is also known as a former CEO at Hyundai, that
also like containing the word "die", commensurate with my consent to move
to the eternity.
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