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This blog is no longer updated.
Since I own the domain name for a couple more years, and the hosting was paid-in-advance, it's still here. But I've moved on to Hawaii, and no longer have the need to publish all the sorts of neat stuff that made up the contents of this website.
If you've linked to me, you are invited to unlink, as your readers will no longer be presented with new content. Thanks, Steve
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Friday, July 08, 2005 : Stephen D. Carroll, rokus.net
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Bonuses for bikini-clad bathers anger South Korean women's group.
Fri Jul 8,12:03 AM ET
SEOUL (AFP) - A local government campaign to attract more bathers to a South Korean beach resort by offering incentives to swimmers wearing bikinis has upset women's rights activists.
Ahead of the peak summer bathing season, Buan County administration southwest of Seoul renamed its Byeonsan Beach "Bikini Beach" and promised wearers of skimpy swimsuits a 10-percent discount on bills for hotels, meals and beach equipment rentals.
The county put up wall posters with pictures of bikini-clad beauties and the inscription: "Show off your beauty and get a 10-percent discount." [Very similar to a sign on one of the bars I used to go to in Florida, except "beauty" was spelled differently...]
Women's groups denounced the campaign as exploitation. [Naturally.]
"This is an outrageous attempt to stimulate the regional economy by exploiting the female sex," said a statement from the association of women activists of North Jeolla Province. [Uh huh.]
A campaign to attract more visitors should focus on publicizing the southwestern county's "natural beauty instead of the naked female body," it said. [The natural beauty of Jeolla? How's that been working for you so far? Ask you neighbors - what's the first thing they think of when you hear "Jeolla", I'll bet it ain't "natural beauty." (To be fair, it's probably not "naked female body," either.)]
"We are appalled at this preposterous campaign and cannot suppress our mounting anger," it said. [There will be a demonstration this weekend at the USEMB in Seoul, and 8th Army will promptly apologize for whatever it is these womyn are pissed about.]
But officials at the Buan county office were unrepentant and said by telephone that they had no plan to stop the campaign. [Duh.]
"I don't understand why they are so angry. This is just part of a publicity campaign aimed at promoting the name of the Bikini Beach. We have no intention to exploit or commercialize the female sex," an official told AFP. [Well, not while we're on the clock on the record.]
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From our friends at Yahoo!/AFP.
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