Speedily Developing Through the Machines of Perseverance
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This is an ode about south Korea. The 14th day of every month is a romantic day. Kiss day (June); Hug Day (December); Diary Day (January); Photo Day (September); Yellow/Rose Day (May) and Black Day (April). Singles mourn their lack of love by eating Jaiyangmyeon (lines 8 & 9). The “hoesik” event is a very popular one which is an avenue for socializing through drinking together (line 12). South Korea manufactures actively operating Robots such as JEROS: Kills Jelly fishes, Engkey: a robotic teacher in their R-learning program’ robotic prison guards and the SGR-1: Patrols the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea (lines 13 to 15). A frenzy once emerged on Bill Gates for shaking Park Geun Hye with one hand (line 20). During the Japanese rule, South Korean ladies were forced into prostitution termed as “comfort ladies” to satisfy the Japanese (line 27). The rising Sun is a Japanese emblem while the Swastika is for the Nazi (lines 28 & 29).
A teenager with the expressions of a middle age individual
is the wonder-creating characteristic of its accelerating growth.
Dwelling in a land not presented with natural gifts;
it still beat all odds to be a member of the Asian Tigers
and a competing contributor to its domain’s prosperity.
The birth place to the Toilet theme amusement park
and a camp of makeup obsessed men.
The fourteenth day of every month is set aside in romance’s banquet
except that of the fourth month when mourning becomes love’s pirate.
February is for young men, march, three times for the ladies.
Prides in the globally acknowledged Boryeona Mud Festival
and gives socialization a new countenance in the “hoesik” event,
while new standards in robotic technology is climaxed
as prison guards, patrols, anti-jelly fish squad and teachers
actively exist through exciting artificial intelligence.
A humiliating public ritual in a form of crime reenactment,
personality stereotypes emanating from the different blood groups,
a nationwide superstitious repugnance to the red ink;
very cultured to even create a backlash
on Bill Gates’ presidential handshake;
typify a people coming a long way from a turbulent past.
A territory of very bright and brainy students;
the god of the LG, Hyundai and Samsung among others;
and to the largest church in size and congregants in the world.
It is the well preserved garden where plastic surgery strives
all to show an amazing growth once heavily stunted,
suffering a suppression entertained by the comfort ladies;
somehow causing a perspective towards the rising sun
to be similar to the swastika’s view by the Jews.
Despite the Japanese colonization, soviet meddling and North Korean threats,
it’s still showing mental strength to be the world’s 12th largest trading Nation.
Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2015
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