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South Korean players celebrate after beating Japan, 10 August

11 August 2012                 14:24 ET

The International Olympic Committee has told South Korea to bar one of its footballers from the bronze medal ceremony after he held up a political message after the team beat Japan.

The slogan was said to refer to a long-running dispute about islands which both South Korea and Japan claim.

The IOC says it is holding an inquiry.

Friday’s match came hours after South Korea’s president visited the islands, known as Dokdo in South Korea and as Takeshima in Japan, sparking a row.

The move prompted Japan to recall its ambassador in Seoul.

South Korea won the Olympic football bronze medal by beating Japan 2-0.

The IOC says that after the game, a player was photographed brandishing a sign allegedly asserting South Korea’s sovereignty over the islands.  Known as Dokdo (Solitary islands) in Korea, Takeshima (Bamboo islands) in Japan

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  • Also known as Liancourt rocks
  • Claimed by Japan and South Korea, but occupied by South Korea since 1954
  • Just 230,000 sq m in size, with no fresh water
  • But surrounding waters valuable for their fishing

‘Unplanned

The committee urged the South Korean Olympic committee to take “swift action on this issue” and said the player should not be present at the medal ceremony, which took place on Saturday.

A Korean Football Association official later named him as Park Jong-woo, 23 – who was not present at the ceremony.

Football’s governing body, Fifa, said it had opened a separate investigation to discipline him.

The official told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency that Park had taken the sign – which reportedly read “Dokdo is our land” – from a fan after the match, stressing that the incident was not pre-planned.

“Park was running around with the banner which he got from the crowd. We saw the message on the banner so we quickly took it from him,” the unnamed official is quoted as saying.

The statutes of both the IOC and Fifa prohibit political statements by athletes and players.

Friday’s visit by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to the islands was strongly criticised by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

“It is contrary to our nation’s stance that Takeshima is historically – and under international law – an integral part of our national territory, and is completely unacceptable,” Mr Noda said.

The uninhabited islands, which are roughly equidistant from the two countries, are small but lie in fishing grounds which could also contain large gas deposits.

from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-19225457

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Park Jong-woo was born on March 10th, 1989 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Jong-Woo_(footballer_born_1989)

March 10th, 1989

March 10th

3 + 10 +2+0+1+2 = 18 = his personal year (from March 10th, 2012 to March 9th, 2013) = Surreal.

18 year + 8 (August) = 26 = his personal month (from August 10th, 2012 to September 9th, 2012) = Photos.  In the news.  Making headlines.

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Friday July 27, 2012              7:29am EDT

South Korea’s Im Dong-hyun broke his own 72-arrow world record in the archery ranking round for the London Olympics with a score of 699 on Friday.

Im and his South Korean team mates, Kim Bub-min and Oh Jin-hyek, also broke the team world record for 72 arrows with a score of 2,087 at Lord’s Cricket Ground.

Im, who won team gold at the 2008 and 2004 Games, lost his world number one ranking to American Brady Ellison in 2011 but has been in sensational form in the lead-up to the London Games, winning the test event at Lord’s late last year and setting the previous record of 696 in Turkey in May.

The Korean, who suffers from strong myopia and just aims at a “blob of yellow colour” in the centre of the target 70 metres away, was happy to be at the top of the ranking round but was not about to get carried away.

“It’s just the first round so I won’t get too excited about it,” he said.

Im will face 64th ranked archer Emanuele Guidi of San Marino in the first round. Guidi scored 110 points less than Im.

Im’s team mate Kim would also have broke the record after shooting 698, while the third member of the team Oh finished with 690.

South Korean head coach Jang Young-sool was delighted his team had shot so well in the ranking round and said the damp drizzly conditions had not been a problem.

“It was good weather to shoot,” he told Reuters. “A world record gives us confidence for the rest of the competition.”

Despite winning the last three team gold medals, South Korea’s men have yet to win the individual title.

from:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/oly-arch-kor-record-idUSL4E8IR2MJ20120727

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Im Dong-hyun was born on May 12th, 1986 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im_Dong-hyun

May 12th, 1986

May 12th

5 + 12 +2+0+1+2 = 22 = his personal year (from May 12th, 2012 to May 12th, 2013) = Lucky.

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Dec 21, 2011            11:47 AM
Khiem Do, the Hong Kong-based head of multi-asset strategy at Baring Asset Management, talks about the outlook for Asian stock markets and his investment strategy. Do speaks with John Dawson on Bloomberg Television’s “First Up.”

Foreign investors bought the most Kospi index (KOSPI) stocks in three weeks as some fund managers overlooked possible political upheaval in North Korea to buy equities in South Korea, Asia’s cheapest major market.

Overseas investors purchased a net 329.9 billion won ($287 million) of shares in Kospi companies yesterday, the most since Dec. 1, according to data from Korea Exchange Inc. A net 564.9 billion won was sold during the previous two days, the data showed, after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il sparked concerns over succession in the totalitarian nation.

The Kospi slumped 3.4 percent on Dec. 19 when Kim’s death was announced, dragging the gauge’s valuation to 1.1 times net assets, the cheapest level since Nov. 27. The index rallied 4 percent the past two days as the government pledged to take action to soothe markets and maintain growth in Asia’s fourth- largest economy. The Kospi climbed 3.1 yesterday as better-than- estimated U.S. housing data boosted the outlook for South Korea’s overseas shipments.

“With the case of North Korea, one should not extend that to something too dramatic, and one should use that as an opportunity to buy stocks because the Korean exporters are very strong,” Khiem Do, the Hong Kong-based head of multi asset strategy at Baring Asset Management Ltd. said on Bloomberg Television yesterday. He declined to comment on whether Baring Asset had bought stocks when reached later by phone.

Cheapest Market

The Kospi trades at 8.8 times estimates for next year’s earnings, the cheapest in Asia after Pakistan and Vietnam, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average is at 12.9 times, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index is at 9.2 times.

Export-related stocks climbed yesterday as U.S. data showed the nation’s housing starts increased 9.3 percent to a 685,000 annual rate in November, exceeding the highest estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), South Korea’s biggest exporter of consumer electronics, rallied 4.4 percent, the most since Dec. 1. LG Electronics Inc. (066570), the world’s third-largest mobile-phone maker, surged 4.8 percent, while Hyundai Motor Co. (005380), South Korea’s largest automaker, gained 2.2 percent.

South Korea has so far seen little impact to its economy since Kim’s death, Deputy Finance Minister Kang Ho In told reporters yesterday in Seoul.

The nation will take “preemptive” action to cope with any impact on its markets and economy from Kim’s demise, Finance Minister Bahk Jae Wan said at a meeting in Seoul on Dec. 19. While risks from North Korea are rising, the South has recovered quickly from any North Korea-related shocks in the past, Bahk said.

Focus on Successor

The Kospi fell 0.8 percent on July 11, 1994, the first trading day after North Korea announced the death of Kim Il SungKim Jong Il’s father. The gauge advanced 18 percent in the next four months.

The focus now is on Kim Jong Il’s successor, his son Kim Jong Un, who is thought to be in his late 20s and who was named to senior military and party posts last year in the first official notice that he was being groomed to take over. North Korea’s state media called for citizens to “loyally follow” the younger Kim, according to a Dec. 19 statement.

“If you look at the past, historically when you have these tensions between the North and South or in the last leadership change in North Korea, the markets basically had a very short- term reaction before it starts recovering,” Lee King Fuei, a Singapore-based fund manager at Schroders Plc, which oversees about $326 billion of assets globally, said by phone yesterday. “At this point in time, there’s nothing to suggest that that transition will not be smooth.”

Won, Bonds

The won gained for a second day yesterday, jumping 1.3 percent to 1,147.60 per dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The currency was 1 percent stronger than its closing price on Dec. 16, before Kim’s death was announced by North Korean state television.

Yields on South Korea’s 3.5 percent won-denominated bonds due in September 2016 fell two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 3.51 percent, according to Korea Exchange Inc. prices. The yield reached 3.57 percent on Dec. 19, the highest level since Nov. 2.

“The main risk is you have a transition of power which could result in instability or a coup and so on because the son is quite young,” Andrew Salton, head of investment at Dah Sing Bank Ltd. in Hong Kong, said in a phone interview yesterday. “So it’s really no clearer than it was before if there is any change in direction for North Korea.”

from:  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-21/overseas-investors-jump-back-into-south-korean-stocks-after-death-of-kim.html

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the Korea Stock Exchange was founded on February 11th, 1956 according to http://krx.co.kr/

February 11th, 1956

2 + 11 +1+9+5+6 = 34 = Things happen really quickly.  Meteoric rise.  Crash.

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February 11th, 1956

February 11th

2 + 11 +2+0+1+1 = 17 = the Korea Stock Exchange’s personal year (from February 11th, 2011 to February 10th, 2012) = Optimism.  Inspiring.  Staying positive.  Having faith in a bright future.

17 year + 12 (December) = 29 = the Korea Stock Exchange’s personal month (from December 11th, 2011 to January 10th, 2012) = Teamwork.  Cooperation.  Working together.

29 month + 20 (20th of the month on Tuesday December 20th, 2011) = 49 = Happy.  Satisfied.

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February 11th, 1956

February 11th

2 + 11 +2+0+1+2 = 18 = the Korea Stock Exchange’s personal year (from February 11th, 2012 to February 10th, 2013) = Surreal.  This is crazy.

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Graphic: The world's most dangerous border

November 29, 2010 2:39 a.m. EST

Joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States continued in the Yellow Sea on Monday as tensions with nearby North Korea continue to brew.

On Monday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said South Korea will “firmly” respond to future provocations from North Korea and declared that his nation “cannot remain patient” in the face of continued hostility from Pyongyang.

“Fellow citizens, at this point, actions are more important than words,” Lee said in a televised address. “Please have trust in the government and the military and support us.”

The divided peninsula — tense at the best of times — has been near the boiling point since Tuesday, when four people died in a North Korean artillery barrage that targeted the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.

Lee called that attack an “inhuman crime” that followed decades of previous attacks from North Korea, including the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan in March.

North Korea has consistently denied responsibility for the sinking of the Cheonan, which killed 46 South Korean sailors.

“It is difficult at this point to expect North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons or military adventurism,” Lee said. “We are now clearly aware that we cannot stay patient and be generous. That will only give rise to bigger provocations.”

Lee’s address came a day after South Korean and U.S. forces started joint military exercises Sunday, prompting a furious response from North Korea.

The aircraft carrier USS George Washington joined South Korea’s forces near the coasts of China and North Korea for the four-day drill, which the North called “no more than an attempt to find a pretext for aggression and ignite a war at any cost,” according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

China, North Korea’s closest ally, called Sunday for an emergency meeting of the six major powers involved in talks about the Korean peninsula.

Top diplomats from the six nations — which also include Japan, the United States and Russia — need to meet soon to “maintain peace and stability on the peninsula and ease the tension” in the region, Beijing’s special representative for the region, Wu Dawei, said Sunday.

A top Chinese envoy met with Lee on Sunday, and a high-ranking North Korean official will visit Beijing on Tuesday, China’s Xinhua news agency said.

South Korea said Sunday it did not think the time was right for a resumption of the six-party talks, but said it would “bear in mind” the Chinese proposal.

In Washington, meanwhile, a State Department official told CNN that the United States is consulting with its allies, but resumed six-party talks “cannot substitute for action by North Korea to comply with its obligations.”

“Clear steps by North Korea are needed to demonstrate a change of behavior,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak for attribution.

And U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that the flare-up exposed the failure of “continued appeasement” of North Korea by Republican and Democratic administrations.

He said the United States has given North Korea more than $1 billion in aid over the past 15 years with the goal of getting them to the negotiating table.

“It seems the purpose of everything is to get the North Koreans to the table,” said McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. “The North Koreans’ only claim to their position on the world stage is their nuclear capability. And they have a terrible, most repressive, oppressive regime in the world. They have hundreds of thousands of people in slave labor camps. And all of that seems to be sacrificed in the altar of, quote, ‘negotiations.'”

Meanwhile, the Washington-based ANSWER Coalition called for “an end to the U.S.-South Korean provocations” and announced rallies in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, on Monday.

“The United States and South Korean governments have been pursuing a policy of deliberate provocation over the past several months,” targeting North Korea and China, ANSWER’s website states.

“While hypocritically calling for ‘calm’ in words, Washington is escalating the crisis by its actions,” it said, referring to the U.S.-South Korea military exercises and the USS George Washington.

In his Monday speech, South Korea’s Lee said efforts to resolve the international standoff through negotiations and humanitarian assistance to the North were met with “nuclear development and the sinking of the Cheonan.”

He said the attack on Yeonpyeong Island would have been unlawful even in wartime, adding, “I cannot but be angered at their cruelty.”

North Korea said the South provoked the attack because shells from a South Korean millitary drill landed in the North’s waters.

The North called reports of civilian casualties part of South Korea’s “propaganda campaign” and accused the “enemy” of creating “a human shield by deploying civilians around artillery positions and inside military facilities before the launch of the provocation.”

The violence has sparked anger and political turmoil in South Korea.

The country’s defense minister, Kim Tae-young, resigned after the exchange of fire.

Veterans of the South Korean military protested over the weekend on the streets of Seoul, stating they were angry that their country’s government had not done enough to respond to the North’s shelling.

The tense maritime border between the two Koreas has become the major military flashpoint on the Korean peninsula in recent years.

The Yeonpyeong attack was the first direct artillery assault on South Korea since 1953, when an armistice ended fighting. North and South Korea are still technically at war.

from:  http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/koreas.crisis/

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Kim Jong-il was born on February 16th, 1941 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il

February 16th, 1941

2 + 16 +1+9+4+1 = 33 = his life lesson = what he is here to learn = Taking a stand.  Standing up for himself.  Not backing down.  Not caving in.

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February 16th, 1941

16 + 1+9+4+1 = 31 = his “secret” number = Scramble.  Stir.  Catalyst.  Reaction.  Risk.  Controversy.  Contention.  Provocateur.  Provoke.  Instigate.  Tease.  Taunt.  Ruckus.  Noise.  Dissonance.  Cacophony.  Disturbance.  Struggles.  Strife.  Squabbles.  Quarrels.  Altercation.  Brawl.  Donnybrook.  Feuds.  Antagonism.  Rivalry.  Agitation.  Rowdy.  Wild.  Troublemaker.  Disorderly conduct.  Havoc.  Riot.   Outdoing yourself.  Rising to the challenge.  Stirring things up.  Stirring the pot.  Provoke a reaction.  Getting a rise out of someone.  Raising a ruckus.  Things get out of hand.  Prove you wrong.  I’ll show you.  In your face.  Bring it on.  C’mon.  Here comes trouble.  It takes two to make a quarrel.  Stepping into the ring.  Throwing your hat into the ring.  Gettiing into the mix.  Out of spite.  Getting your goat.  I can’t compete with you.  Working at cross purposes.  Riot starter.  Free-for-all.  

 

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February 16th

2 + 16 +2+0+1+0 = 21 = his personal year (from February 16th, 2010 to February 15th, 2011) = Stepping onto the world stage.

21 year + 11 (November) = 32 = his personal month (from November 16th, 2010 to December 15th, 2010) = Fighting.  Winning.  United States.  America.

 

21 year + 12 (December) = 33 = his personal month (from December 16th, 2010 to January 15th, 2011) = Taking a stand.  Standing up for himself.  Not backing down.  Not caving in.

When his number (33 (2 + 16 +1+9+4+1 = 33)) comes up, that’s when he gets to live/experience what he is here to live/experience.  So that will be HIS month!!!

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Lee Myung-bak was born on December 19th, 1941 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Myung-bak

December 19th, 1941

12 + 19 +1+9+4+1 = 46 = his life lesson = what he is here to learn  = The past.  Making history.  History in the making.  Maintaining your innocence.

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December 19th

12 + 19 +2+0+0+9 = 42 = his personal year (from December 19th, 2009 to December 18th, 2010) = Misunderstandings.

42 year + 11 (November) = 53 = his personal month (from November 19th, 2010 to December 18th, 2010) = Warrior spirit.  Debates.  Arguing.  Heated exchanges.

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A portrait shot of a serious looking middle-aged African-American male looking straight ahead. He has short black hair, and is wearing a dark navy blazer with a blue striped tie over a light blue collared shirt. In the background are two flags hanging from separate flagpoles: an American flag, and one from the Executive Office of the President.

Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_obama

August 4th

8 + 4 +2+0+1+0 = 15 = his personal year (from August 4th, 2010 to August 4th, 2011) = War.

15 year + 11 (November) = 26 = his personal month (from November 4th, 2010 to December 4th, 2010) = Communication.  In the news.

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Jun 22 3:42p

Nigerian goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama misread a direct kick from Park Chu-Young, allowing South Korea’s second goal 48 minutes into their match with the Super Eagles.

Park struck the dead ball from 20 yards out, with Enyeama jumping behind his wall moments before contact. Parks ball curled just inside the vacated, far post for a South Korean goal and a 2-1 lead.

The goal gives South Korea one foot in the knockout stage. As Group B currently sites (with Greece and Argentina drawn 0-0), South Korea would finish second in Group B with six points, two ahead of Greece. Even if Nigeria were to pull a goal back, Greece would be two goals behind in the relevant tiebreaker: goals scored.

from:  http://www.sbnation.com/2010/6/22/1530771/world-cup-2010-nigeria-vs-south-korea-vincent-enyeama-park-chu-young

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Park Chu-Young was born on July 10th, 1985 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chu-young

July 10th

7 + 10 +2+0+0+9 = 28 = his personal year (from July 10th, 2009 to July 9th, 2010) = Hero.  Unstoppable.

28 year + 6 (June) = 34 = his personal month (from June 10th, 2010 to July 9th, 2010)

34 month + 22 (22nd of the month on June 22nd, 2010) = 56 = his personal day = Tie.  A draw.  Stalemate.

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