Sunday, February 11, 2007

The Secretary General of the United Nations cashes in!


I am mildly disgusted that Ban Ki-moon has lent his good name to a book about how to study like the Secretary General called "Study Like an Idiot and Dream Like a Genius" (바보처럼 공부하고 천재처럼 꿈꿔라). Mr. Ban, you're the leader of an international organization with an army vast resources at its disposal, and your main task is to overcome the legacy of corruption left by your predecessor. And so you lend your good name to a quickie book about how to study, which rabidly ambitious parents who don't know any better are going to buy in the millions, read and force their children to read? Why not write a straight autobiography? You are a great man, how could you lower yourself to this level? This book seriously lowers your credibility, and seeing you, who I thought was one of the most respectable and classy politicians in Korea, going straight into the gutter with this exploitative book, I'm disappointed. How would the rest of the world feel if they knew this is the kind of junk you do to make money?

1 comment:

Jeff said...

Mr. Ban, you're the leader of an international organization with an army at its disposal

I agree with everything you say here except I'd like to point out that the UN has no army at its disposal. The UN has member nations with armies. When they feel like contributing soldiers then the UN has peace keepers.