{"id":329,"date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/post-322-pen-your-wishes-to-singapore-on-her-50th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:00:00","slug":"post-322-pen-your-wishes-to-singapore-on-her-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/post-322-pen-your-wishes-to-singapore-on-her-50th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-322: Pen Your Wishes to Singapore on Her 50th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nLate July 2015: Upon recognizing the Singapore flag in Seoul in a place it had never been before (just south of Gwanghwamun Plaza), I discovered that a temporary Singapore exhibition had been set up.\n<\/div>\n
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\nTemporary but presentable. Equipped with A\/C inside:\n<\/div>\n
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\n“Pen your wishes for Singapore on her 50th birthday”<\/strong> is a phrasing no American could’ve come up with. Well done.<\/p>\n

Most of the exhibition consisted of photos and accompanying explanations. Here are some:\n<\/div>\n

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\n“Queuing is something of a national sport.”\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n“People use packets of tissue paper to ‘chope’ seats.” \/ “500,000 attend Swing Singapore festival” (1989) \/ “The first Great Singapore Duck Race” (1998).\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n“The merger with Malaysia was short lived.”\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe crying man is Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died this year after one of the most successful political lives of his time. (See post #292: “On Lee Kuan Yew, Founder of Singapore<\/a>“).\n<\/div>\n
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\n“Merdeka is the Malay word for freedom.”\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nThere was also a television with three different videos about Singapore playing in rotation. The video I saw was of was some kind of professional Korean photographer who did a photoshoot over a weekend in Singapore and also had a filmcrew following him around, filming him taking pictures.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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