Arson in South Korean subway
February 18, 2003 2:19 AM Subscribe
More senseless killing, boys and girls: an Arson in a South Korean subway. "With 135 people injured, many seriously, and at least 90 people listed as missing, officials say they expect the death toll to rise much higher." This will, no doubt, help in stabilizing the region.
As relevant as this is to me (I have an AP story on this open in another window and I'm reloading it often), it's still not MeFi material. It doesn't stop being NewsFilter because I find it interesting.
posted by Octaviuz at 2:34 AM on February 18, 2003
posted by Octaviuz at 2:34 AM on February 18, 2003
Agreed, Octaviuz.
For what it's worth, though, in the meantime, the TV here in Korea is reporting more than 100 dead at this point. But they caught the guy who threw the molotov cocktail, and he's Korean, and senseless as it was, it wasn't a political thing.
As far as 'tensions in the region', almost every Korean that I know here laughs and says 'more of the same' when asked if they're any more worried about the DPRK than usual. Massive media hoohah in N America and elsewhere, and no doubt the flames are being fanned overseas for a reason, but most of those of us smack up against it are fairly unruffled...
*knocks on wood*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:14 AM on February 18, 2003
For what it's worth, though, in the meantime, the TV here in Korea is reporting more than 100 dead at this point. But they caught the guy who threw the molotov cocktail, and he's Korean, and senseless as it was, it wasn't a political thing.
As far as 'tensions in the region', almost every Korean that I know here laughs and says 'more of the same' when asked if they're any more worried about the DPRK than usual. Massive media hoohah in N America and elsewhere, and no doubt the flames are being fanned overseas for a reason, but most of those of us smack up against it are fairly unruffled...
*knocks on wood*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:14 AM on February 18, 2003
(Hey, I didn't know you were in Busan!)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:15 AM on February 18, 2003
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:15 AM on February 18, 2003
it wasn't a political thing.
Too early to say.
Hey, I didn't know you were in Busan!
Criminy Stav! Go back to your "anti-American" FPP. Octaviuz weighed in there from Pusan, if memory does not fail me.
Yep I checked.
He's been in Pusan a long while.
posted by hama7 at 4:22 AM on February 18, 2003
Too early to say.
Hey, I didn't know you were in Busan!
Criminy Stav! Go back to your "anti-American" FPP. Octaviuz weighed in there from Pusan, if memory does not fail me.
Yep I checked.
He's been in Pusan a long while.
posted by hama7 at 4:22 AM on February 18, 2003
Oh dear. It's too early for alzheimers....I'll have to blame the beer.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:24 AM on February 18, 2003
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:24 AM on February 18, 2003
delmoi : I said much the same thing to my wife about an hour ago as we watched the TV coverage. In a confined space, though, a bottle full of gasoline will do a pretty good job of getting anything that is flammable burning, I'd imagine...
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:26 AM on February 18, 2003
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:26 AM on February 18, 2003
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