Quotation of the day

Even though the briefing was said to be one on the local economy, it was a briefing on the national economy. (A donga.com netizen on Monday describing the report delivered recently by presidential economic aide Lee Ki-Ho on business conditions in Kyonggi province)

They wish that members of the Supreme Council would take pains to attend a general meeting of National Assemblymen. (Rep. Kim Hee-Sun, director of the Millennium Democratic Party¡¯s In-house Training Center, on Monday, conveying the grievances of ordinary party members in parliament against the party's Supreme Council members)

Would you allow your children and younger siblings to watch them? (A netizen posting a message on the Chong Wa Dae homepage on Monday in refutation of those who argue that the controversial racy videotapes of singer Baek Ji-Young should be permitted to circulate and gossip about her should be stopped because they violate her privacy.)

Why should the government intervene when mistakes are made by individual citizens? (A netizen visiting the Chong Wa Dae homepage on Monday who said failed financial institutions and individuals should be held responsible for bad investments.)