Pen/Insular_Notes

A life of atheism might have to go out the window on this fantastic news:

Samsung boss Lee Kun-hee is indicted for tax evasion and breach of trust.
(But they cleared him of slush fund bribery - boo; and they’re not going to arrest him either - boo boo).

Meanwhile, the Korea University students who so courageously challenged his award of a (dis)honorary degree in 2005 are back in their classrooms after almost two years of living in a protest camp outside the university. (They were actually expelled from the University over a different protest in 2006, but I won’t let that get in the way of the poetic justice of the situation).

Korea University students celebrate their hard-fought victory

CAN’T RESIST THE UPDATE:
Ha ha! I do like seeing corporate execs bowing in humiliation.

I feel bound to warn everyone that there is a dangerously militarised country threatening Asia today.

It has a population at least 15 million less than the UK and yet supports an active army more than five times the size of Britain’s, while spending far more than the UK on conventional weapons. In fact, it has over 600,000 active troops, a reserve army of 4.5 million and conscripts every able-bodied young man not rich enough to avoid it for two years of their lives. While this country’s GDP per capita is ranked 35th in the world, it is the world’s 5th biggest buyer of arms and also the 17th largest exporter of weapons. It routinely threatens its neighbours with large-scale military exercises and has engaged in a number of military skirmishes in recent years with one of its neighbours, resulting in loss of life on both sides. Although it does not currently have nuclear weapons, this country has a record of seeking nuclear weapons in the past and is known to possess technological knowhow as well as civilian nuclear reactors that make it a potential nuclear power.

You all know which dangerous militaristic country I’m talking about don’t you?