{"id":5985,"date":"2009-03-20T20:57:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/korea\/?p=320"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:21:52","slug":"dokdo-is-korean-for-fifty-four-forty-or-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/03\/dokdo-is-korean-for-fifty-four-forty-or-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dokdo is Korean for &#8220;Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently inspired by the success of other international publicity campaigns around disputed lands &#8212; Tibetan independence, Pakistani claims to Kashmir, the Golan Heights, etc. &#8212; some Korean business owners in New York are trying to raise the profile of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2005\/03\/bamboo-v-lonesome\/\">Dokdo\/Takeshima<\/a> dispute by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/21\/nyregion\/21islands.html?hp\">publicizing it in English on dry cleaning bags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of a larger push to broaden Korean diaspora engagement with the homeland and leverage overseas success into diplomatic weight. This includes trying to instill a sense of the importance of the Dokdo issue &#8212; as Koreans see it &#8212; into second and third generation Korean Americans. I&#8217;m not sure what the benefit is to tying Korean American identity to a post-colonial maritime resource dispute instead of &#8230; well, almost anything from the panoply of Korean history and culture seems like it would be more likely to succeed in the long term and have greater benefits. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of generations, the North-South separation has had <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/69473.html\">linguistic consequences<\/a> over the years. Most of the examples given seem to be in the political realm, terms which have taken on specific meanings within the Kim-cult\/<i>juche<\/i> system. After decades of living in a more or less permanent state of political terror, I would imagine that most North Koreans would be very careful, precise with their language. The culture shock for individual defectors is already pretty severe; the culture shock of reunification in Germany was substantial, though the political system in East Germany was never as thoroughly totalitarian, information was never as tightly controlled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently inspired by the success of other international publicity campaigns around disputed lands &#8212; Tibetan independence, Pakistani claims to Kashmir, the Golan Heights, etc. &#8212; some Korean business owners in New York are trying to raise the profile of the Dokdo\/Takeshima dispute by publicizing it in English on dry cleaning bags. 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