'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Jeju Update] [Translation] The Safety-Prayer Ceremony combined with the Ceremony to Set Up the Naval Base, Postponed to No Defined Term

* Below is the arbitrary translation of the linked article

Jeju Sori
The Safety-Prayer Ceremony combined with the Ceremony to Set Up the Naval Base, Postponed to No Defined Term
: Base Business Committee Concerns about the Funeral of the Dead of the Sunken Cheonan Ship and Repulsion of the Jeju Society… Reports to the Chief of Naval Operation
April 27, 2010
Lee Seung-Rok, leerevol(at)naver.com

The Safety-Prayer combined with the ceremony to set up the Jeju naval base was postponed to no defined term.

According to the Jeju naval base business committee and business companies on April 27, they postponed the safety-prayer ceremony planned on April 28, the anniversary of the birth of the Choongmoogong, [ * Yi, soon-Shin, the most famous navy general in the 16th century in Korea, who saved the country from the invasion of the foreign country] to no defined term.

The naval base business committee delayed it to no defined term because of the funeral of the dead soldiers due to sunken Cheonan ship and strong repulsion of the Jeju region society
It was known that Ryu Zeup-Hee, the Director of Control of the Naval Base Business committee, visiting the Naval headquarter, Daejeon on 26th, reported to Kim Sung-Chan, chief of the naval operation, about the postponement of the safety-prayer ceremony

The construction Director, Daerim, who took the part of the planned construction of the Jeju naval base saying that, “The safety-prayer ceremony is to have the ritual on the defined date to finish the construction with no accidents,” told that, “We had been choosing the date but as [our move] was reported to the press, the date was not defined yet.”

The personnel in Samsung saying that, “The date for the safety-prayer was not defined yet,” announced that “We don’t exactly know when it will be done.”

The navy personnel saying that, ”In the beginning, we planned to have the safety-prayer ceremony, combined with the ceremony to set up the work on the construction, centered around the civilian companies on April 28th, but became to postpone,” told that, “It is my knowledge that [postponement] was reported to the naval headquarter.

Otherwise, following the announcement of the drive for the enforcement of the ceremony to set-up the construction on the naval base, the Catholic Jeju District is repulsing holding ‘the Missal for the Prayer of the Life & Peace” on 26th, and the Pan-Island Committee against the Jeju Naval Base and Gangjeong villagers are strongly repulsing against [the announced ceremony] holding the candle cultural event and rally.

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