[KS] Road signs

[David Prendergast]

>By the way, is there any concerted international academic effort going on 
>to
>not just resist using the "new" system but to actually try to *stop* the
>Korean government from imposing this poorly-thought out system? Personally,
>I think there's some contract for new road signs (replacing ALL of the tens
>of thousands of road signs in English which are in McCune-Reischauer format
>will run into the tens of billions of won) that is being given to someone,
>and that's why they're ramrodding this through with little publicity and
>debate before the fact.
>
>K U S H I B O


The road signs are already going up. Travelling into Chonju (Jeonju) today I 
noticed that Kimje is now Gimje and Kunsan = Gunsan (an appropriate 
correction on the latter perhaps in light of the air base there ;)

As for someone's earlier comment about Korea becoming "Gorea", all I can say 
is that it sounds painful...

In jest,

David Prendergast.
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