Them ol' Southern salt marshes-old ways there R not forgot...

[Aktungbby]

Came across this in today's paper; Strictly under:" remove the log from your own eye before removing the speck from dear leader kims' eye"...MOST DISTURBING in a democratic military ally who's only excuse is: "well that's just how it is" http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/living-hell-disabled-slaves-south-korean-islands-27952337 ..."Slavery thrives on rural islands off South Korea's rugged southwest coast, nurtured by a long history of exploitation and the demands of trying to squeeze a living from the sea.
Two-thirds of South Korea's sea salt is produced at more than 850 salt farms on dozens of islands in Sinan County, including Sinui island, where half the 2,200 residents work in the industry. Workers spend grueling days managing a complex network of waterways, hoses and storage areas.
Five times during the last decade, revelations of slavery involving the disabled have emerged. Kim's case prompted a nationwide government probe of thousands of farms and disabled facilities that found more than 100 workers who'd received no, or scant, pay.
Yet little has changed on the islands, according to a months-long investigation by the AP based on court and police documents and dozens of interviews with freed slaves, salt farmers, villagers and officials.
Although 50 island farm owners and regional job brokers were indicted, national police say no local police or officials will face punishment, despite multiple interviews showing some knew about the slaves and even stopped escape attempts.
Soon after the national investigation, activists and police found another 63 unpaid or underpaid workers on the islands, three-quarters of whom were mentally disabled." ...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2894429/South-Korea-s-dark-secret-Remote-islands-families-send-mentally-disabled-relatives-work-slaves-salt-farms.html (better pics)

[Wolferz]

I guess this lends much credence to the term... "going to work in the salt mines"
It's despicable and it's happened here in America too, so, South Korea isn't alone in this dastardly practice of human exploitation.

They had best mind their P's & Q's or else we might decide to leave them on their own up on the 38th parallel. Which would result in a DPRK annexation of their entire population into slavery to Little Kim and his ilk.

[Jimbuna]

I seriously doubt the North has the military means to overpower the South militarily....without Chinese assistance of course.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

I guess this lends much credence to the term... "going to work in the salt mines"
It's despicable and it's happened here in America too, so, South Korea isn't alone in this dastardly practice of human exploitation.

They had best mind their P's & Q's or else we might decide to leave them on their own up on the 38th parallel. Which would result in a DPRK annexation of their entire population into slavery to Little Kim and his ilk.

Ahh, but it still happens here in the U.S. and it's completely acceptable and legal in todays society. In 2013 there were somewhere around 6 million slaves in the U.S. workin for or under the supervision of the man.

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

[Aktungbby]

I've been following this grim tale of the sea for a while now. For those of you who love Walmart Calimari...SHAME! http://newsok.com/myanmar-ex-slave-those-with-sympathy-would-not-eat-our-fish/article/feed/891362 http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/09/18/after-5-year-slavery-ordeal-in-indonesia-teen-myanmar-fisherman-finds-himself/ In this Sept. 8, 2015 photo, a Burmese fisherman receives his salary before leaving the port town of Ambon, Maluku province, Indonesia. More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, their freedom prompted by an Associated Press investigation into seafood brought to the U.S. from a slave island in eastern Indonesia. Dozens of Burmese men in the bustling port town of Ambon were the latest to go home, some more than a decade after being trafficked onto Thai trawlers. http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/More-than-2-000-enslaved-fishermen-rescued-in-6-6510355.php#photo-8645542

[em2nought]

I dug a hole, put a liner in it, filled it with water, added a pump, threw some fingerlings in, and basically a few years later I pulled 80 lbs of tilapia out of my koi pond. I don't exactly see why we have to get fish from half way around the world ? It seems a mystery to me.

South Korea should hope that the north doesn't figure out the "let the whole population immigrate" thing.

[August]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Ahh, but it still happens here in the U.S. and it's completely acceptable and legal in todays society. In 2013 there were somewhere around 6 million slaves in the U.S. workin for or under the supervision of the man.

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

Surely you're not comparing the barely moving convicts that I see every day picking up trash along the highway with real slaves are you?

[Platapus]

The history and current government structure of South Korea revels that it is a better country only in comparison to North Korea.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by August

Surely you're not comparing the barely moving convicts that I see every day picking up trash along the highway with real slaves are you?

Oh, the humanity!

[Wolferz]

Look away, nothing to see here. ...

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by em2nought

Oh, the humanity!

And just to be sure someone doesn't try to twist that quote, it's in regard to prisoners being given the choice to work or not. It has nothing to do with actual slavery which I have no use for. Well, I'd take a sex slave if she offered herself to me, so mostly against.