Steve, what's the name of the PBS program? I can probably stream
it.Thanks!DonnaSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Steve <sfgrob@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 3/9/22
5:59 PM (GMT-05:00) To: fhs-65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [fhs-65] Re: What you
think about South Korea's new president?
Not much!
I'll explain. Oki has been watching (video feed of news via
internet) the campaign for several months now. I would get daily
briefings, sometimes more than once a day, about the goings on and
her feelings about it. She comes from the Southern Province
where people are the most engaged in politics. That part of the
country had the highest voter turnout of over 90%. She also has a
cousin who ran for higher political office several times,
unsuccessfully, and one time was a campaign manager for a
presidential candidate that just missed out on becoming
president. Had this campaign been successful, her cousin would
have become vice president of the country. So one could say Oki
has politics in her blood.
As I was getting these updates they were always accompanied by
the comments that none of the candidates were very good and she
couldn't understand why there weren't better choices available.
Last night I watched a CNN report where the reporter from Seoul
called it "the campaign of the unlikeables". Oki nailed it.
The problem is that neither of the two front running candidates
has any international relations experience and both have somewhat
checkered pasts. The only bright spot (here) was that the
candidate who won was the one that Oki thought was the lesser of
the two evils. There was just a 0.8% vote margin for the winner.
Now we have to sit back and see how the new guy can do.
Steve
p.s. I see that PBS has a program on at 8pm tonight about: "A
look at the talent and dedication of Italy's artisans, including
glassblowing in Venice, ceramics in Umbria, olive oil-making in
Tuscany and cashmere weaving in Genoa, as well as regional
culinary traditions."
I may have to check this out as we went to a glassblowing factory
in Burano when we visited Venice and found it fascinating.
On 03/09/2022 15:52, donnakasch
(donnakasch) wrote:
Steve, I'm wondering what you and Oki think about
South Korea's new president?
Donna
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