Now here's a really fascinating and strange Korean "medal". The reverse is very much like many a DPRK award but would you members like to take a guess at what this "medal" was commemorating? If I didn't have a picture of the front too I'd certainly had never guessed.
All I'll say is it is not a sport related event and it was so strange I just had to buy it (Still waiting for it to land).
Dunno, guess you´ll have to show the obverse... Children´s festival maybe?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight The Who, Won't get fooled again
Not a Children's festival.... I'll let folks take more guesses at it and I'll post the obverse later this week or maybe at the weekend if no-one gets close. It's one of those quirky things that makes you just think WHAT?
Good guess but I don't think there were any Koreans on that flight... What this commemorates is a little bit "different" to stopping an incident, more of creating something.
06-07-2011, 09:42 PM (This post was last modified: 06-08-2011, 11:37 PM by Esteban_cool.)
Commemoration of the first Korean Gay Pride parade?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight The Who, Won't get fooled again
It is just that, to me, sports medals have the most unlikely color combinations of any ribbons.
Such as this, Service Medal for IV Asian Games, Djakarta, 1962.
Kind of relevant to the forum as it was picked up in Kabul and is believed to have been awarded to Sardar Mohd Faruq Siraj, the president of the Afghan organising committee for those games.
