Quotations of the day

The partnership between Kim Dae-Jung and Kim Jong-Pil is an ugly act of wriggling by an old acrobat. (Grand National Party (GNP) Taejon City chapter vice chairman Kim Won-Wung on Wednesday, echoing a speech by GNP leader Lee Hoi-Chang in which he dismissed the United Liberal Democrats (ULD) as a lieutenant of the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP))

Visiting Washington to attend Bush's inauguration costs money and so many Korean politicians are going there. (An aide to Kwon Ro-Gap, former member of the MDP supreme council, on Wednesday, explaining why he cancelled plans to attend the inauguration after receiving the Martin Luther King human rights award in the United States)

In the conduct of North Korea policy and inter-Korean economic cooperation, we must abandon a sense of superiority and mistaken prejudices. (A businessman with investments in North Korea Wednesday, suggesting that strongman Kim Jong-Il's visit to Beijing may indicate that Pyongyang has opted for China as a major partner in economic cooperation, downgrading the capacity of South Korea to assist North Korea economically)

I made an appeal to the Grievances Resolution Commission to help resolve my complaint, but it only aggravated the situation. (A netizen visiting the Cheong Wa Dae Website on Wednesday, saying that if a complaint for redress is filed with the commission, the official papers are returned to the lower-echelon officials in charge at local administrative agencies, which only deepens the red tape)