sparhawk
December 19th, 2006, 01:08 PM
The Yi quoted in international news... (http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/179239.html)
Kyosu Sinmun, or "The Professors’ Newspaper," announced Sunday it has chosen this year’s saja seongeo, or "four character idiom" in Chinese characters, after surveying a group of 208 staff writers and professors that contribute to the publication.
Mil un bul u (密雲不雨) was chosen by 48.6 percent of respondents as the four character idiom that best expresses the political, economic, and social mood for 2006.
Mil un bul u means "dense clouds but no rain" and describes a situation where the conditions for something are in place, but the occurrence is not happening. Thus, it expresses a mood in which one is on the verge of an explosion of frustration and dissatisfaction.
The term is from the I Ching, or Book of Changes, an ancient Confucian text.
Respondents appear to have chosen mil un bul u because the country seems to have had as much as it can take of things such as the lack of an ability by politicians to work together, social conflict stemming from a crisis in presidential leadership, skyrocketing real estate prices, and North Korea’s recent test of a nuclear bomb.
Kyosu Sinmun, or "The Professors’ Newspaper," announced Sunday it has chosen this year’s saja seongeo, or "four character idiom" in Chinese characters, after surveying a group of 208 staff writers and professors that contribute to the publication.
Mil un bul u (密雲不雨) was chosen by 48.6 percent of respondents as the four character idiom that best expresses the political, economic, and social mood for 2006.
Mil un bul u means "dense clouds but no rain" and describes a situation where the conditions for something are in place, but the occurrence is not happening. Thus, it expresses a mood in which one is on the verge of an explosion of frustration and dissatisfaction.
The term is from the I Ching, or Book of Changes, an ancient Confucian text.
Respondents appear to have chosen mil un bul u because the country seems to have had as much as it can take of things such as the lack of an ability by politicians to work together, social conflict stemming from a crisis in presidential leadership, skyrocketing real estate prices, and North Korea’s recent test of a nuclear bomb.