South Korea may soon again allow whale hunting in the waters off its shores for what the government claims are "scientific purposes." The news has sparked criticism from environmental organizations and nations around the Pacific Rim. The country's delegation to the International Whaling Commission said this week that Seoul is reviewing a proposal to hunt minke whales migrating off the Korean Peninsula.

  • Mitchell Glaser

    This is why science should be banned. This, and colonoscopy.

    • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

      Believe me, here in Texas (and other like minded states such as Mississippi) are working very hard on this very thing. Here is one of our supporters talking: 
      “People now don’t die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things.”—NY GOP congressional candidate Chris Collins, in explaining why the ACA should be repealed
      [eh, I'm in Austin. One has to have a healthy sense of humor to live in this state]

  • http://profiles.google.com/stephen.schenck Stephen Schenck

    How about South Korea can kill as many whales as it likes, but only if it does so by leaving them in rooms where there are electric fans running?

  • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

    Don’t miss the exciting arcade action offered by the Japanese Cetacean Research Simulator!

    http://harpooned.org/ 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6EBMSO7ELT2CRNKMB2JDKGEEZI John Bodart

    Then I suggest we torpedo whaling ships and call it war games.

    • Mitchell Glaser

      We should disguise a torpedo as a whale and let them harpoon it! I’m heading over to Kickstart…

  • technobach

    On a related note, North Korea is considering allowing the hunting of humans, again for “scientific purposes”

  • Kaden Harris

    The research in question:  “What does that whale over there taste like?”

  • http://twitter.com/LennStar_de LennStar

    I am amazed that they openly admit how bad their scientists are. I mean, to not now what a whale looks on the inside afters *centuries*!!

    • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

       Tsk. Speling….

  • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

    They already have scientists on whaling ships. They’re just normally too busy getting raped or murdered to do any research.

  • timmaguire

    Do they explain what they hope to learn from new scientific research on whales?

    What aspect of whale academics could be helped by hauling in a few hundred every year, chopping them up, and selling them to sushi houses?

  • http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti

    The problem is that they are giving the same lame excuse for hunting whales.  Just admit it’s for food, and everything’s fine (as long as they don’t hunt it to extinction).  Why copy the bad part of Japan?

  • http://www.aldenbates.com/ Alden

    How many whale-related scientific papers a year are published in Japan anyway? There  must be lots!

  • http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

    Whales: how do they work?

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasonconort Jason Conort

    Many whale species are endangered, but don’t worry I am sure once there gone, we can  move on to the next thing to kill off.

    http://www.un.org/works/OLD/environment/animalplanet/whale.html