Quotations of the day

It is my desire to live in South Korea until I die. (A person close to Hwang Jang-Yop on Friday, quoting the defector's comment regarding some press reports claiming that he hopes to seek asylum in another country.)

From now on entertainers had better start their activities after making any videotapes of themselves public. (A donga.com netizen on Friday, calling for the release of obscene videos depicting the private lives of entertainers involved in scandals; he compared making the videos public to the mandatory accounting of property owned by public officials.)

Please call our school Seoul National University instead of Hansong (Chinese version of Seoul's old name) University or Keijo (Japanese rendering of the capital city's name during the colonial years) University. (A SNU official on Friday complaining about the corruption and misuse of the university's name by Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese, who use Hanmun -- traditional Chinese characters.)

Measures need to be considered to stop pressing farmers for the repayment of their debts. (Agriculture-Forestry Minister Han Kap-Soo at Chungju Cultural Center on Friday, referring to a series of suicides committed by heavily indebted farmers pressed for repayment.)

In contrast to 1997, foreign investors of late have remained relatively steady and calm. (Mirae Asset Securities Co. on Friday in its report detailing the reasons why there are no signs of a foreign capital exodus despite a sudden decline in the value of the won against the dollar as was seen during the financial crisis three years ago.)