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2024.05.19 08:04 tuttifucky Both ruling & opposition parties slam Yoon regime's 'direct oversea purchase ban policy'... Will the policy drift amid 'rushed policy' criticism?
By Yubin Cho ([you@sisajournal.com](mailto:you@sisajournal.com)) Approved 2024.05.19 13:03 submitted by tuttifucky to k_nazi [link] [comments] Massive criticism continues for 'Restriction on consumer choice'-'unreasonable policy' Government might posphone the mandatory KC certification for direct oversea online purchase. The government's policy to ban direct overseas purchases of products that are not certified with the Korean Certification Unified Mark (KC) has been met with the opposition from various parties. While the government emphasizes that it is to prevent unreliable products from entering the country due to the surge in overseas direct purchases, it has been criticized as a 'futile policy'. In response, the government has actually taken a step back by putting the proposal on hold. Voices of opposition on banning direct oversea online purchases of which products do not have KC certification Democratic Party: "Premature policy will increase public inconvenience and confusion" The Democratic Party of Korea said on the 19th that "the throwing out 'blunt policy' at random is only adding to public inconvenience and confusion." "It is not the first time that the government has announced a policy of no action and no planning, and then folded it in an all-or-nothing manner." "The government should have come up with a policy to secure the safety of goods and relieve the damage first," he said, adding, "Blindly banning overseas direct purchase is like burning thatch to catch bedbugs." He added that the policy of banning overseas direct purchases has sparked resistance from young people who enjoy diverse cultures and products, and that it has taken away the market itself when they demand safer products and reasonable purchases. "We need to scrap the ban altogether and look at it from the beginning, as it is contrary to the free market economy and the needs of consumers," he said. On the 16th, the government announced a plan to strengthen consumer safety and enhance corporate competitiveness in the wake of the surge in overseas direct purchase, banning overseas direct purchases for 80 product categories, including children's products, unless they have KC certification in South Korea. Until now, products through overseas dropshipping were brought into Korea without any safety checks, but the recent surge in overseas dropshipping through Chinese e-commerce platforms such as Aliexpress and the importation of harmful products to people's health has led Korean government's decision to strengthen safety management. The government has decided to ban direct sales of 34 categories of children's item, 34 categories of electrical and household products, and 12 categories of household chemical products if they do not have KC certification. In response, it was pointed out that it is a measure to protect domestic companies from Chinese e-commerce platforms and criticisms arise that is such as 'excessive regulation' and 'limiting people's right to choose' . 'Reconsideration' voices are out even from ruling party... and criticized as "ignorant policy" The government's restrictions on overseas direct purchase have also been criticized from within the ruling party. In particular, three of the leading candidates for the next party leadership election of the ruling People's power party have called for a reconsideration of the KC certification mandate through their social networking services (SNS). Han Dong-hoon, the former chairman of the Emergency Committee of People's power party, wrote on his Facebook feed the day before the announcement of the mandatory KC regulation "should be reconsidered as it excessively restricts consumer choice." He argued that mandating KC certification for individuals would be "excessive regulation" as Koreans are already spending more than 6.7 trillion won ($6.7 billion) a year on overseas direct purchase. "Our government is a government that boldly revolutionizes regulations and ensures fair competition and free choice," he said, emphasizing the need for policy reconsideration. Former lawmaker Yoo Seung-min also criticized the mandatory KC certification on his Facebook feed the same day, calling it an "ignorant policy. "The government's policy to ban overseas direct purchase of 80 categories of products without KC certification is like burning thatch to catch bedbugs," Yoo said. "If a product is proven to be harmful, whether it is domestic or foreign, it needs the regulation to ban its distribution and hold the manufacturer responsible," he said, adding that "proving harmfulness and obtaining KC certification can be different, so regulations should be applied accurately only when necessity exits." The day before, Na Kyung-won also posted on social media, saying, "It is said that the government is not banning all non-KC-certified products. "I'm glad," he said, "but I don't think the side effects of the banning have been fully considered. The government seems to be taking a step back by facing these controversies, saying that products without KC certification can be shipped from overseas as long as they are found to be harmless. The government has reportedly decided to revisit and refine the program, citing people's concerns that it unduly limits consumer choice. They will provide further explanation at a briefing later today afternoon. Source: https://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=291236 |
2024.05.19 08:02 nutshellupd Sea levels are starting to rise faster. Here’s how much South Florida is expecting
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2024.05.19 07:05 ElectronicStretch349 Rehoming
This is my boy Whiskey, I got him at repticon in Tampa 3 months ago and truly just haven’t bonded with him like I was hoping to. I am in the south west Florida area about an hour south of Tampa and am willing to travel up to 1.5 hours to meet. He will come with a small tank. He eats frozen thawed, good eater at that. He likes to explore around his tank, and loves water. He is normal with het clown morph. All I ask is he goes to a good home and $60 as that’s what I paid for him (No breeders please unless you’re actually being kind to your snakes and have appropriate habitats for them not just plastic boxes) submitted by ElectronicStretch349 to ballpython [link] [comments] |
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2024.05.19 05:51 No-Corner-2294 Valley Golf (North Course), Antipolo, Rizal
Beautiful view of Valley Golf. North course is fairly easy and shorter than south course. Course conditions are good too submitted by No-Corner-2294 to GolfPH [link] [comments] |
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2024.05.19 05:21 YoueyyV [1m25s] Arcadia Grit and Gravel Race (14 and 28-mile distances)
What a gorgeous day today up near Michigan’s pinkie finger for the Michigan Gravel Race Series’ Arcadia Grit and Gravel race. Predominately raced on mountain bikes there were still a fair few gravel bikes present. The race offers a 14-mile and 28-mile course. The paved sections are fast, the gravel roads only go upwards, and the single track is chef’s kiss. submitted by YoueyyV to MichiganCycling [link] [comments] On a side note, if you are in the area I highly recommend the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy’s Arcadia Marsh Nature preserve and boardwalk. It’s visible in a lot of the drone shots in the video. From their website: “Arcadia Marsh Preserve, located just south of Arcadia, offers visitors access to a Great Lakes Coastal Marsh, a rare and declining natural community found only in Great Lakes coastal areas. It is estimated that over 80% of all original Great Lakes marshes have been destroyed. These marshes are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world, and Arcadia Marsh is one of only 15 or so remaining coastal marshes along Lake Michigan’s Lower Peninsula shoreline.” |
2024.05.19 05:20 NoobyImpulse China Trip Report: March 2024 [Suzhou Amusement Land Forest World, Joyland, China Dinosaurs Park, Happy Valley, Etc.]
During the end of March/ early April my gf and I went on a 3 week coaster trip throughout China, Japan, and South Korea. I wanted to make this report about China since it's pretty difficult to plan a trip to China with the lack of information available. submitted by NoobyImpulse to rollercoasters [link] [comments] Planning started last year in September and we used coast2coaster to map out our trip, then we tried to find any information about the parks we picked which ended up not being much. The Coaster Kings had some great blog posts, and we found a couple YouTube videos from ATLsloan which ended up being super helpful. I also digged through reddit and reached out to some very helpful Redditors that gave me advice! Thanks u/MrBrightside711 and u/Noxegon We visited:
Hong Kong Disneyland:We flew into Hong Kong from Osaka and landed about 2am. We got a hotel right in the airport, and woke up at 8am to uber over to Disneyland, check into our hotel at the explorers lodge, and rope drop at 10:30am. After getting to the park we realized rope drop wasn't needed.. this park was DEAD. We went right to Mystic Manor and was one of 6 people in the pre-show section. (amazing ride but not a coaster)Then we went over to Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars. This instantly became my favorite Disney rollercoaster. (at this point we had been to all Disney parks except Shanghai, which only has clones) The fakeout lift, and the launch section were great. The new Frozen area of the park really was beautiful, and made the visit that much more worth it. Their version of Frozen ever after is a bit more modern, but much the same of the Orlando version. Wandering Oaken's Sliding Sleighs is great to look at, but not that great to ride. It's very short and probably great as a child's first coaster. Not much to say about RC & Hyperspace Mountain. If you have ridden any of their counter parts, you have already experienced these as well. Wandering Oakens Sliding Sleighs Big Grizzly Ocean ParkThis park has 2 areas, the lower entrance area which has a ton of shops, smaller rides, and a aquarium. The upper area on top of the mountain which required a chairlift ride up is home to the larger thrill rides. While the bottom portion still seems fine, the upper portion has about half of it closed including the 2 SBNO coasters still sitting there.However, their 2 operating coasters were both open. Hair Raiser was a great B&M, and the setting and usage of the terrain only amplifies it. Arctic Blast isn't much to write home about, but it was enjoyable and they sent us around the track multiple times. Hair raiser from the loading area SBNO mine train Mainland ChinaOnce you hit mainland China everything becomes so much more difficult. Thankfully we did plenty of research in advance and downloaded DiDi (taxi app) WeChat, and Alipay (Payment apps) You also need to verify yourself with your passport in these apps DO IT BEFORE you get to China unless you want problems. The language barrier exists much more here than any other country I have visited, Google Translate was needed for EVERY conversation. If you are planning a trip here make sure you download the Chinese Simplified translations in google translate incase your internet gets spotty (it will.)Call your cell provider to ensure you will have working service in China, it prevents the need for a VPN while out and about.. however still download a VPN for when you are on wifi as the great chinese firewall blocks EVERYTHING. We used LetsVPN and it worked amazingly the whole time in the mainland. Most places will not want to take your cash. Before you leave make sure that you have a credit card added to both alipay and wechat. There is still a chance your apps wont work! Your hotel can take cash and send you the money on either alipay or wechat. When taking a taxi if your DiDi app isnt working, there is a mini DiDi app in alipay that works as well! Shanghai Haichang Ocean ParkThis park is where all my fears about my trip came true immediately. When you go to parks in China there is absolutely no way to know if coasters will be open or closed, even if you can find a website with posting they are probably not accurate.We landed in Shanghai at 10:30 am and immediately got a taxi to drop our bags off at the hotel, and they waited for us to take us to Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park. As we arrived we saw Steel Dolphin cycling and I thought to myself how great it was that we would be starting this portion off strong. As we got to the steel dolphin entrance it was blocked off with an employee explaining via google translate that the ride failed a inspection earlier in the month and they were only testing to regain its certification. I asked if there would open anytime in the next week, they said no. We then went over to Family Coaster which was CLOSED. We then decided we would try to salvage the day and ride a couple other rides.. we couldn't find a single one that was open. Our taxi driver was still outside when we left 30 minutes after he dropped us off and he asked why we were leaving so early. We explained the situation and he took us to guest services and complained for us without us asking for that. They offered us the ability to view a sea lion show which took place in 2 hours which we declined. I highly recommend skipping this park, it was a MESS. An empty Steel Dolphin train RIP Oriental Pearl TowerImmediately upon the horrors of the last park, our taxi driver took us over to The Bund. While we were exploring there we figured out there was a coaster in the Pearl Tower so we headed on over. To get to the coaster you have to go to the top of the tower first, which is similar to every other observation tower experience in the world. Very nice views of the city though.VR Rollercoaster is a junior coaster which probably isn't worth going out of your way for, but it may of been my favorite VR coaster I have done as it didn't make me sick! Loading platform for VR Rollercoaster Suzhou Amusement Land Forest WorldOn this day we attempted (and succeeded) to visit 3 theme parks in one day. There were too many parks in the Shanghai area I didn't want to miss so we had to hustle all day. For this to work I hired a private Taxi Driver to follow us all day and wait on us at the parks so we didn't have to figure out how to maneuver from park to park.When we arrived at Suzhou Amusement Land Forest World we were met with another DISASTER.. the sign in front of the park showed that my #1 bucket list China coaster Beyond The Cloud would be closed. Hopeful we still bought tickets and entered the park because we saw the tilt coaster testing. We ran immediately over to Broken Rail Roller Coaster and got front row on the first train of the day. This was my first Tilt Coaster and man was it awesome! Jinma rides while they may be a copycat company they did a great job on this. It was smooth, thrilling, and could compare to any other big coaster company creation. While walking over to Beyond the Cloud, we found Roller Coaster a coaster which wasn't on coaster count or RCDB! It was a kids ride but we had to ride it since it was undocumented! Its a Jinma kiddie coaster and could compare to the junior Vekomas you can find in many places in the USA. We also got the ride published on RCDB! We skipped the spinning mouse because we couldn't find it and we were in a rush to get to our next park. When we did arrive at Beyond the Cloud we were met with another heartbreak as it has a sign explaining it was closed for the day. I was pissed and desperate to ride this coaster so I didn't give up. The day we flew out we woke up at 7 am and risked missing our flight for another shot at riding. When we got there it was drizzling and every ride was closed.. except Beyond the Cloud! I believe we were the only 2 people in the park this 2nd go around and were able to ride 5 times by ourselves before we moved on and headed to the airport. They made us wait 5 mins each ride to see if other riders would show up (they didn't.) It was 100% worth the effort, this was my favorite coaster in China, and my #2 Mack overall behind RtH. Beyond The Cloud just for us! They never opened any of the back restraints so we had to sit in the front every ride. Big boi The Jinma Tilt Coaster JoylandAfter about a hour 1/2 in Suzhou Forest we got back to our taxi and darted for Joyland! Upon arrival we went through the knockoff Dr Seuss area on our way to Starry Sky Ripper my #1 bucket list flyer behind flying dino which we rode a few days prior. I think Sky Ripper edges out my top B&M flyer just over Flying dino. Its smooth, thrilling and most importantly it doesn't have the immense pain pretzel loops bring me.To our surprise all of the coasters here were open! We ended up going to Dragon Roaring Heaven next. There was a school trip and they all seemed to be waiting to just ride this ride, so it took about 30 minutes to get on. This mine train coaster was decent, and is comparable to some of the great mine trains in the USA, but the theming here makes it a slight step above the rest. Next was Clouds of Fairyland which seemed to be in a state of despair. The front car of the train was closed, and they had these makeshift restraints behind your head that they made you hold for the duration of the ride which was uncomfortable. The ride itself was okay, I'd like to ride another one that doesn't have the weird behind the head nonsense. Flying Loop Mine Train Theming China Dinosaurs ParkWe got to China Dinosaurs Park around 3pm the park closed at 5pm, and stopped letting guests in at 4. We jogged straight to Dinoconda to ensure we got a ride in, and to our surprise it was a WALK ON! As with the other 4d coasters it was very intense, but it was the smoothest by far. I would put it behind Eej as you can't beat that intensity.Next we went in circles trying to find Dinosaur Mountain it took us about 20-30 mins to actually find it hidden in the mountain side but it was a cool indoor Zamperla motocoaster. The theming was cheesy but it was all still great fun. Super Roller Coaster went down and stayed closed until park closure. Dinoconda Shanghai DisneylandThis is a great Disney park! Pirates and Zootopia made this visit worth it alone. The Pirates here is the best version of the ride, and I'm glad i went in blind. I wasn't expecting what I experienced at all. The zootopia area was really well done and I hope we get some version of it in the US.All 3 coasters here are clones of coasters I've ridden at other Disney Parks so I'm not going to go into detail about them. They are great, ride them if you get the chance. Zootopia Ride Tron but the not Florida one Happy Valley ShanghaiUnfortunately when we woke up we realized the forecast was rainy and had high winds but we decided to attempt to go get some credits anyway. We knew that it would probably not work out but yolo.We were greeted with 4 out of 7 coasters closed including Diving Coaster, Mine Train, Wooden Coaster, and Coastal Ant. We headed straight for Mega-Lite which was good fun, we had ridden its clone Piraten in Denmark back in June of 2023 so we knew what to expect. Still a enjoyable small coaster that packs a punch. Truly is a mini I-305 Next was Crazy Elves which is your basic spinning mouse. Then we got a ride on Family Inverted Coaster which wasn't anything crazy but was fun and will be perfect in BGT as a step-up coaster. Mega-Lite loading platform Family inverted coaster Universal Studios BeijingAfter a hectic morning in Shanghai trying to get a ride on Beyond the Cloud we flew to Beijing! We got there late at night and checked into our hotel right outside Universal.We bought the "Set of all Express Passes" which was good for all the major rides. This ended up being worth it is the park got more and more crowded as the day went on. Upon entering the park we heard an announcement that all rides are open but there is inclement weather which may close outdoor attractions so we headed right to Decepticoaster. Decepticoaster is everything the Hulk retracking should of been. The coaster is glass smooth, the jank is gone, and made for a much better ride experience. Personally, I love Hulk as its at one of my home parks here in Orlando but I find myself riding it less and less due to how I feel after riding.. I didn't have this issue here. Next we took a wrong turn trying to get to the Jurassic area and ended up going through Kung Fu Panda's area which was really cool, and its boat ride was worth riding once. This path put us in a circle which had us ending up in Harry Potter land so the next coaster was Flight of Hippogriff. This was the same as all its counter parts, nothing special here. We skipped the other rides in this land as we have been to every other universal park (other than Singapore) and didn't need to experience them again. We finally found the Jurassic area and got on Jurassic Flyers which was not what I expected. I was assuming it would be interactive similar to Arthur at Europa Park, it wasn't. Just did a loop around the mountain and got some great views. While in the area we did arguably the best dark ride in the world Jurassic World Adventure. That ride is INSANE.. nothing we have in the US compares to it. On our way out we hit Loop-Dee-Doop-Dee which I believe is the only Jinma at a major park? It's a basic family coaster, and worth the credit if you can get on with no line. Better Hulk Jurassic Flyers Happy Valley BeijingThe last park of our trip before we spent our last few days sightseeing! We arrived at opening to a very large crowd (the biggest of the trip.) All of coasters had staggered openings so we tried to strategically plan it out to be at the opening of each one.. which didn't work out at all. Extreme Rusher was closed all day and has been closed for a while due to its sister coaster rolling back and crashing into another train in the station.We headed to Crystal Wing first for its 10:30 opening. We weren't the only ones with this idea as there was already a decent line formed. We waited bout 30 mins to get on missing the 11am opening for our next coaster. This is a clone of Superman but with some really cool terrain and theming. Worth the ride. Golden Wings over the Snowfield was stop #2. I'm not a fan of SLC's but this didn't ride like one. It wasn't smooth, but it wasn't painful either. It also has a different layout from the SLC's all over the US which was cool. Next we went over to Flight of the Himalayan Eagle Music Roller Coaster which had a 11:30am scheduled opening which we missed by 30 mins. The line took about a hour, and we noticed there was a fastpass system that we couldn't figure out because of the language barrier. I used google translate on the signs at the entrance to no luck. The ride is a great mini hyper coaster that blasts music as you ride. Easily the best coaster in the park. We walked past Family Inverted Coaster which had a hour+ wait which we didn't want to wait for as we just rode the clone the other day with no line. So we headed over to Jungle Racing which had a 45 min wait but we noticed a QR code next to the line which we scanned and ended up being the fast pass system! We bought a fast pass and walked right on. It was a great Mine Train that was very similar to the one in Joyland. We then bought 2 fastpasses to Family Inverted Coaster just to get the credit. This park felt a lot more taken care of than its counterpart in Shanghai, and is definitely worth a visit. The endWe took a couple days to visit all the big sites like the great wall of china, the forbidden city, the temple of heaven, etc. which is a must-do.Then we flew over to South Korea for our next portion of our mega coaster trip! |
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2024.05.19 04:43 AllThingsUF Florida softball advances to NCAA Gainesville Regional finals with win over South Alabama
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