<< Winter Olympic Game >>
Latest news about East Asia.
(I will post the series of “Version 4” on
other occasion)
Winter Olympic game is beginning from Feb 9th of next month in South
Korea. So it is only little over 2 weeks from now. However, it is rumored that
this Olympic will be the worst failure in Olympic history.
First of all, there aren’t audiences. Most
of hotels near the Olympic stadium are vacant even now. And most of Olympic
tickets remain unsold.
The reason why nobody visits Olympic game
in South Korea is obvious according to Korean news.
It is Korean’s national character of “Bottakuri”.
Bottakuri is a Japanese word. In English, that means “a huge rip-off”.
It is Korea’s tradition and deeply rooted
national culture. Everybody cheats on anybody and steals big.
It’s been well-known that Korean cabs overcharge
as much as 5 times or more of regular price if the drivers find you are a
tourist. And it is the same when you buy at local shopping centers. There is no
price tag. Even if there is, they have dual prices. High price appears for tourists,
and secret cheap price for local people.
This is one of the reasons why foreign
tourists don’t come back to South Korea anymore.
In 2014, because Japanese tourists stopped
traveling to South Korea due to Bottakuri, Korean tourism industry took it
serious and made a regulation to cash back if tourists reported experiencing “Bottakuri”
at Police station for foreign tourists by submitting the receipt.
=(Korea made a regulation to cash back for
Bottakuri)====
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However, Korean people don’t follow rules
as their common sense. So that Bottakuri doesn’t go away from Korean tourism
despite local police is trying to eliminate the bad custom.
For example, a round trip air ticket between
Japan and South Korea costs about a little over $200 but you will be charged
more than $200 for one way drive from the airport to your hotel by the cab. (Hahaha)
I am not joking! It happens quite often not just to Japanese tourists but also
to westerners in South Korea.
==(Sample news in Japanese)=========
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Anyway, let’s get back to the issues of Olympic game.
Despite it was only about a couple months
away from the beginning of Winter Olympic game, the local hotels near the
Olympic stadium were offering Bottakuri prices.
For example, local motels (not even hotel)
were offering $700 to $900 per night during the games, which prices were
usually about $40 per night. (Hahaha)
And there are even illegal rooms available
online at a price of $900 per night, which rooms are not registered as business but offered from individual houses and apartments. (Hahaha)
==(Sources)=======================
https://netallica.yahoo.co.jp/news/20171213-62737024-nkcyzo
http://www.recordchina.co.jp/b225686-s0-c50.html
http://www.news-us.jp/article/20171209-000009k.html
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At first, Korean tourism industry were
expecting tourists from China with those Bottakuri prices of Olympic tickets
and hotels but unlike usual, Chinese tourists didn’t buy much. So they started dropping
the prices of Olympic tickets and hotels as the days getting close to the opening
date of Winter Olympic game.
You see, in any major event, as the days
getting close to the event, the prices of tickets and hotels go up as the
availability of supply becomes short against huge demand, right? But in case of
South Korea, as the days getting close to Winter Olympic game, the prices of
tickets and hotels are dwindling! (Hahaha)
Korean people are cynically calling it “Bottakuri
Olympic” And Japanese people have been laughing to death! (Hahaha)
It is reported that because nobody
(including Korean people) buys Olympic tickets despite lowering the price, the
officials began to hand out the tickets to schools and companies for the lowest
price or free. Just like K-POP concerts in Japan. They always end up handing
out free tickets to Korean immigrants to fill up the empty seats being unable
to sell. (Hahaha)
However, it is said that even local Korean
people are hesitant to visit to watch Winer Olympic game. The reasons are many.
But one of the main reasons is too cold to watch Olympic game at the stadium.
<Who can watch Olympic at the stadium?>
Because it was short in budget and also there wasn’t enough time for
preparation, the stadium ended up without a roof. So it is predicted the temperature
would be minus 16 degree in Celsius (3.2 degree in Fahrenheit) during the games.
(Hahaha)
And in the area of Pyeonchang, which is the city where the Olympic game is held, it has icy cold wind that local Korean
people say “The wind is so cold that it hurts like as though slicing your
cheeks with a razor”
As the matter of fact, last year on November
21, K-POP concert was held at the same stadium and 6 people were confirmed to be Hypothermia
and sent to hospital.
At that time the temperature was 3.4 degree
in Celsius (38.12 degree in Fahrenheit) and the wind speed was 8 meter per
second (26 feet per second)
You can easily imagine what’s going to
happen during the Olympic game.
===(Sources)=======================
https://www.excite.co.jp/News/chn_soc/20171221/Recordchina_20171221053.html
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< Olympic for political purposes >
Anyway, I want to talk about the Winter Olympic game from political
aspects.
Because South Korean President Moon doesn’t
want US to trigger a war in Korean peninsula, President Moon has been
abnormally behaving as though US is their enemy.
President Moon seemed to find the Olympic
to be as the best political opportunity to interfere with US’s intention to
wage war against North Korea.
What he did at first was to treat North
Korea as their ally so US can’t attack North Korea.
On
Jan 20, South Korea and North Korea came to the agreement to participate Winter
Olympic as “One Korea” in many kinds of sports such as ice hockey, figure
skate, and alpine skiing. "One Korea" was endorsed by the chairman of
Olympic committee.
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Three days prior to that, on Jan 17, a nuke-powered strategic US
submarine "Virginia" requested South Korea to let it park at Port
Busan for refueling and rest, but the request was rejected by S. Korean
government.
US Army was treated as their enemy by South
Korean government.
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In the midst of suspicious behavior (cheating
and manipulation) by South Korea, 20 countries (Japan, USA, UK, Thailand,
Canada, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, France, India, Sweden etc,)
had a meeting to discuss about the issues of nuke missiles in North Korea,
which was held in Vancouver Canada on Jan 16.
Prior to this meeting, Japan US France
British Australia and Canada held a secret meeting in the end of November at US
base camp in South Korea last year while eliminating South Korean officials.
South Korea is the only country in the
world abiding by North Korea.
US is facing a difficulty now finding out that they have been cheated by South Korea until now.
===(Sources)=======================
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/54187
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I have been telling in my blog in the past “Don’t separate North and
South Koreans because they are the same people”
Koreans constantly cheat on you and
manipulate you. Both North and South Korea behave in the same manner. But at
the same time, both North Koreans and South Koreans are cheaters so they don’t
get along with each other because both of them constantly cheat on each other.
That’s Korean.
However, in the eyes of both Koreans,
America (White and Black) and Japan (Japanese) are obviously enemies since
there is no DNA connection to Koreans. Pedigree and blood trait matter to
Koreans. So in front of Japanese and Americans, South Koreans deem North
Koreans as their buddies.
It is very dangerous to trust South Korea
for any country.
After all, we are not the same so we
shouldn’t judge people from different countries by our own standard.
<A headache>
The latest President Moon’s approval rating
is still as high as 67% as of Jan 19. But what’s funny is Korean people’s
tendency of quick changing mind.
Koreans are emotional race so anytime their
opinions quickly change when they trigger their emotions. That’s when they become
like psychopaths and make their country upside down. (Hahaha)
It is only sure for now that both Japan and
US will have a headache because of both North and South Koreans.
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