The maximum amount of compensation legally payable to the victims affected by the Taean oil spill is limited to 300 billion won. This is because the Korean government did not join the additionalconventionin2005,whichallows compensation of up to 1 trillion won. The victims had to waste their precious time and energy to protest against Samsung Heavy Industry and the government because of the unrealistic (insufficient?) compensation money. Actually, this was the period they should have concentrated on investigation and finding proof of damage....    // 2009/06/11

Over the dark and damp ravines the cold sun is rising up for today as usual. The rocky mountains and ravines where you live always make me tense. I am not that a person who doesn’t know what hearts and tears are like, though. I cannot help but having an apathy to objectify you whenever I go to meet you in the fields. Hence, I feel always something guilty since I take you as a mere object. Beyond silences over my silences, you are there....    // 2009/02/20

One year is already past. It's already been a year since we rushed to the Western Coast to remove the oil on the rocks, warming our hands in a freezing weather. The residents in the Western Sea were encouraged by about 1.6 million volunteer workers. The volunteer workers who were seemingly helpless were a hope for the residents. On December 7, 2007, about ten days ahead of the presidential election, the nation's worst oil spill has occurred....    // 2008/12/24