Quotations of the day

The uniform scholastic aptitude test for college-bound students has become useless. (A Central Education Promotion Institute official on Friday, condemning this year's questions for being too easy for the selection of qualified candidates.)

Is Tokdo a place we cannot enter without a visa? (A Honam University student on Friday, pointing out during a mock hearing held on campus the difficulty ordinary citizens have in visiting the islets off the east coast.)

It is because they are lazy. (A farmer in Umsong county, North Chungchong Province who drove a power cultivator for 26 years, saying most other farmers use cultivators for an average of six years because they do little to maintain them.)

Indiscriminate operations with no regard for their own intentions is encroachment upon the human rights of children. (A surgeon who runs a web site devoted to circumcision on Friday, criticizing indiscriminate circumcision in Korea.)

This is my first visit here yet I feel at home. (A popular Japanese writer, Akihiro Nakatani, on Thursday, commenting on his impression of Korea, which appeared to him very similar to Japan in all respects.)