Korea Finder 16-22
Welcome to Korea Finder. The way this contest works is that each week a new image is posted and the first reader to accurately describe or locate the image gets a point. At the end of the year the reader with the highest amount of points will win a Korea related book of their choice.
So who knows where this image is taken at?
2016 Korea Finder Leaders Board
- Comfortable Chairs – 8
- Smokes – 4
- MTB Rider – 3
- Dd – 2, Setnaffa – 2
- JoeC – 1, Nullscan -1
https://www.rokdrop.net/2016/08/picture-of-the-day-the-thaad-golf-resort/
This is the Lotte Sky Hill Country Club in Seongju, home of the new anti-chinese tourist THAAD system.
It can be found at:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/%EB%A1%AF%EB%8D%B0%EC%83%81%EC%82%AC%EB%A1%AF%EB%8D%B0%EC%8A%A4%EC%B9%B4%EC%9D%B4%ED%9E%90%EC%84%B1%EC%A3%BCC.C/@36.0464767,128.2243022,2266m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x6f817b173ed633de!8m2!3d36.0493527!4d128.226226
Second proposed THAAD site.
Lotte Skyhill Seongju Country Club
롯데상사롯데스카이힐성주C.C
As CH said below, the second proposed site for the THAAD Missile System.
“This (Golf Course) We’ll Defend!”
I am going to give the point to MTB Rider for being specific in regards to where the site is located. 😀
I got totally screwed once before because my spelling, while clearly phonetically correct, didn’t match the “official” misguided spelling.
Now, I correctly point out the place but get screwed out of the point because… uh… nevermind.
My apathy is reinforced.
Next year, I will cheat and win… just to do it.
…and I am going to request Chained Korean Schoolgirls in Heat Vol. 2 on DVD.
Woot! Tied with Smokes, and one way to catching up with Chairs!
I’M getting the copy of Chained Korean Schoolgirls in Heat Vol. 2 on DVD, and I’m going to zip tie it to the front of my bike and roll past Chicken Head Labs and yell “Nanny nanny boo boo!” at CH as he stands on the stoop!
I will be coming back to Korea, Victorious!
MTB…
…better wear your rubber gimp suit as you race by…
…because my fap will soak through biker spandex.
Unless you are really just doing it for the bukake.
I guess this is where I should chime in with some whining about how this Finder was way late and that GI made it the newly proposed THAAD site was completely lazy. Even the most casual of `Droppers would’ve know this immediately by seeing that the photo was of a golf course. Probably the least challenging Finder since one of ChickenHead’s ex-waitresses asked me to play “Find the STD”. 😡
I guess I should fess up that I recognized it was a golf course, presumed it was the second proposed THAAD site due to the recent post on a golf course being at the second proposed THAAD site, and lazily typed it in without even bothering to look up the name.
But I still think I should get the point because… well… I was right. The “rules” have revolved around identifying the site… and I indentified it in such a way that anyone could find it with the information I gave.
This satisfies the conditions of earning a point.
My laziness or brilliant intuition has no relationship to my correct identification.
Don’t hate the playa…
I’d give you the point but I don’t make the rules or run the game.
You guys make it sound like we need a Congressional investigation to settle this controversy. 😉
Eventually the hacked emails between MTB and GI Korea will be released.
Bernie Sanders will send me a letter of condolence.
Haters gonna hate, potaters gonna potate. 😛
The controversy this week only gets better. I found in the spam cue a posting by comfortable chairs. For some reason his correct answer was put into the spam cue. Most significantly is that he beat everyone with the correct answer. So what I am going to do is give a point to both comfortable chairs and MTB Rider this week.
So the first place winner loses the point to the second place winner under suspicious circumstances.
Then a dubious claim comes up that there was another first place winner, dropping the first and second down to second and third.
Points are awarded to both the alleged first place winner AND the third place winner but the true first place winner is ignored despite clear documentation securing his rightful place.
The lack of transparency and clear dirty dealings revealed in Koreafindergate has forever tarnished the high-stakes world of Korea Finder.
An investigation into the associations of the GI Korea Foundation will likely reveal a sinister web of suspect associations.
http://www.wikileaks.org/koreafindergate/contest-rigging-emails
It’s kinda like CC was related to the Clintons… 😉
Battles over who got the point, and whether or not Chairs somehow back dated his entry aside, I’m having two thoughts about all this:
1. Why not put it a few kilometers east/north-east in Gyeongbuk? I always remember seeing how empty that part of Korea seemed. No major roads, just a small coastal road. I know they are putting in the bike trail along the coast, to create a loop all around the Peninsula, but the road along the coast there reminds me of the road up on North Shore on Oahu: two lane blacktop, kept that way on purpose. The residents on that side of the island saw how built up and congested the whole Honolulu area got, and decided they didn’t want none of that.
Is the area earthquake prone, or just really hard to bring roads and materials into? Zooming in on Google Maps shows a lot of tiny little farming villages tucked down into numerous valleys.
2. Doesn’t Korea have Eminent Domain? What would keep the govt. from simply seizing the land at Sky Hill C.C. for the low, low cost of “Hey, we’re letting you keep all your other businesses in Korea. Be a shame if that were to change…”
The White Envelope game goes both ways.
Very nice move there…
::: shudders :::
I just rode my motorcycle from Seoul to Busan this weekend – Seoul through Gyeonggi, Chungbuk, and Gyeongbuk, and into Gyeongju, Ulsan, and Busan. When I saw the route Naver had laid out, I figured it’d be slow because of the twists and turns, but even on those rural roads, there were villages everywhere that I had to slow down through.
I really don’t think there is a single place in all of South Korea where THAAD can be placed without objection. Even now, the head of the area said that Seongju was fine, just in a different part and then THOSE residents protested. No one anywhere wants it anywhere within 50 km of their backyards.
But how close do they want the Norks?
Sorrym just trying to play along…
@MTB Rider, I am sure that USFK planners have been looking at every possibility. I would think though from the area in the east coast you mention it would be logistically challenging moving troops and supplies every day to support a THAAD site since there is no US military base over there. From the Seongju area Camp Carroll is just down the road.
Camp Mujuk is about an hour from Daegu (According to Google, not sure of traffic down that way.)
How big is that area, and what’s up in the hills above?
Just tossing out ideas. Building an entire base and all the logistics that goes with it would be a pain. But a DFAC, CIF, Barracks, a Headquarters building and all the rest would have to be built at the golf course.
Well, the club house could be repurposed into an HQ, but the rest…