I'm interested in your argument that Korean society is becoming more diverse.
The Korean "whales eat fish" argument is one of the most easily debunked in the book, and I'm sure the Koreans know it - as must the Japanese officials who used to deploy it as a justification for whaling.
Egan got into an argument with North Korean officials on that trip, too.
The conglomerates, known as chaebol, have vigorously lobbied the National Assembly in recent months, insisting that overly strict restrictions would hurt their competitiveness and profitability and damage the South Korean economy in general, an argument supported by many lawmakers affiliated with Ms. Park's conservative governing party.
The episode underscored the thorny relations between the Koreas since Mr. Lee took office in early 2008 and adopted a tough approach toward North Korea.North Korea may have hoped that the clash would highlight its longstanding argument that the Korean War never officially ended, analysts in Seoul said.
Unlike many SOV languages like Japanese and Korean, where only the patient argument can serve as the direct object of a verb, in Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong, and many other mainland Southeast Asian SVO languages, in addition to patient objects, transitive verbs (and even some intransitive verbs) may take direct objects in the roles like agent, instrumental, manner, locative, and purpose.
So Vanderhook, not ready to quit, summoned Erik Cha, a pitcher of Korean descent, to interpret his argument.
Many scholars share the view of Andrei Lankov, who has written that, because Kim's legitimacy rests in part on his regime's argument that North Koreans are very rich and everyone else very poor, exposing North Koreans to the truth will make them doubt their government.
"We have no aggressive intent, no argument with the North Korean people".
"We consider the North's absurd argument regrettable," the South Korean Navy said in a statement, vowing to defend the Northern Limit Line.
