Quotations of the day

We will make do with a lunch to celebrate the end of the year. (An employee of a company that entered the Kosdaq system on Monday, saying that his colleagues would dispense with an expensive year-end dinner in favor of simple lunch in light of the current economic problems.)

If the resignations are a sort of cutting off of the tail, it does nothing but make a mockery of the people. (Grand National Party spokesman Kwon Cheol-Hyeon on Monday, openly wondering whether forcing out other members of the Millennium Democratic Party's Supreme Council, besides Kwon Roh-Kap, would only dilute the significance of Kwon's departure.)

Cats have been opening refrigerator doors and stealing the food inside. (A resident of Taekijom-do islet in Shinan county, South Cholla Province on Monday, noting that the cats the villagers have kept for the last 20-odd years have become more of a nuisance than the rats they were brought in to eradicate.)