Toyota leaves Pyeongchang podium to South Korean rivals

I was told Koreans don't like the Japanese.

 

Japan–Korea disputes - Wikipedia

 

the marching in with north korea was such a nice statement, too bad it doesn't work for all of asia.

 

Weren't Japanese cars illegal in South Korea until quite recently?

 

are sk cars allowed in japan?

 

They are, but Hyundai-Kia pulled out a couple of years ago. I don't think I've ever seen a Korean car in Japan. In the 90s, I saw Korean-made Japanese cars - I remember there was a Honda Accord made under licence by a Korean company, for example - in Korea, but nothing the other way round. Yet.

 

Ahha - here we go.

The second-generation [Honda / Acura] Legend was also manufactured by Daewoo in South Korea from 1994 to 1999 under the name of Daewoo Arcadia (ko:대우 아카디아 ), for the Korean market, replacing the Daewoo Imperial.[8]

 

interesting. so, sk will allow if they can manufacture? or was it just a work around until their cars were more reliable?

 

I think they allow Japanese cars now - this was in the 80s and 90s.

It had something to do with protectionism, in that they wanted Hyundai-Kia, Ssangyong and Daewoo to develop in a protected market: there were very high tariffs on all imported cars. But the "no Japanese cars" thing was more down to really hating Japan.

 

the earth keeps turning...

 

Are they showing the same ads in America as here? The ones with ice sculptures of Olympic athletes starting to melt, and talking about their hydrogen and EV cars, and saying "Let's keep winter winter"? They're very good.

 

Car commercials on China TV Olympics are same ol', boring and much to long.

Wish we'd talk about the sports. Or NK cheer squad.

 

Every flight on a Chinese airline has given me that experience. I AM ON A PLANE. I AM NOT CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY A CAR, BECAUSE I AM ON A PLANE. IF I WERE TO BUY A CAR AND DRIVE IT AWAY NOW, I WOULD PLUMMET 8 MILES TO THE GROUND AND DIE. I AM NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR CAR ADVERTS.

On my last flights (Air China), before I could watch a film I had to watch near-identical, 2-minute-plus adverts for VW, Toyota, Honda, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Hyundai and Kia - all of them, one after the other - before the film would start.

The NK cheer squad.... NK figure skaters ..... Did no-one in the NK negotiation team watch Blades of Glory?

I am limited on sports conversation as Channel 7 will only show sports in which an Australian has a chance of "medalling" (NOT A VERB!).

But I do love watching Winter Olympics sports. Summer Olympics is all stuff I could do, albeit very badly. Winter Olympics stuff is just insane. Why is that person upside down 14 metres above the ground with her feet stuck together by a stick? How is that person flying 200 metres through the air? What happened to that person's knees that let her ski through those moguls and still be able to walk afterwards? Why are those people travelling at 150km/h down a tube in an upside-down bath?

It really is a spectacular thing to watch.

 

Some website has you answer several personal questions and chooses a Winter Olympics sport for you. I answered as honestly as possible and came up with curling.

 

we love curling. a cup of coffee and morning curling, or a glass of wine and evening curling. either way, curling is fabulous.

 

yes, looks like the sculptures are crying, really bad.

 

Yes, a cup of coffee can often lead to curling.

 

Have you watched much of it, though? For the first five minutes it's a bit dull and pointless. And then you get sucked in, and you watch for hours, and you understand the rules, and you know what that person should have done, and it all makes perfect sense, and then the moment you get up and leave the room you have no idea why you were watching or what the rules are.

 

isn't that the point of all sport?