Totally unexpected Robert Jasiek sighting on Tygem.com

[lemmata]

Here (control+F "jasiek", "weirdo")

The author says that Jasiek purchased over 60 baduk books when he visited Korea for some conference at Myongji University. Someone named Zoran (presumably Zoran Mutabzija) from Yugoslavia handed out one page pamphlets about Serbia at the end of the event, and Jasiek apparently refused the pamphlet by saying that with those 60 books, there was no room left for the pamphlet.

This Zoran fellow, who apparently claimed to the author that Western Europeans and Americans are "evil", was asked whether Charles Matthews from the UK and Robert Jasiek from Germany were evil. He responded that those two Western Europeans were not evil but that they were "weirdos."

...I never expected to read about Robert Jasiek on Tygem.

EDIT: A mandatory disclaimer... The opinions of Zoran (on Western Europeans, Charles Matthews, and Robert Jasiek) are his own and not necessarily the opinions of this poster.

[Javaness2]

Looks like a pretty old article. Zoran Mutabzija was European Go Champion back in the dawns of time.

[lemmata]

Looks like a pretty old article. Zoran Mutabzija was European Go Champion back in the dawns of time.

The conversation in question is about 10 years old. The article was uploaded on 2012-10-20 at 10:05:29AM (so it may be a reprint of some old column) and the conference where the conversation took place was held on 2001-5-11. The article also mentions the 2004 EGC, so it must have been written after that.

At any rate, it is still pretty unexpected.

[RobertJasiek]

During the 2001 conference, I purchased some 30 (not 60) books (some 20 at Kyobobooks, ca. 8 in another bookstore, ca. 1 at the Hankuk Kiwon, i.e., if you read elsewhere in a report by the Australian participant that I had had bought many at the Hankuk Kiwon, it is another wrong information) and got one or two and a clock as present. Packing all the books into my rucksack was a really tough exercise; I spent 4 hours during the last night to pack it and had to leave a couple of minor other things in Korea in order to get all those books and my clothes into the big rucksack:) I do not recall whether I rejected a pamphlet, but it would fit the pattern of my packing problem perfectly. BTW, I had roughly planned the book purchases already before the travel, estimating the expected weight per book (by measuring samples) and so ensuring not to pay for excess weight in the plane.

[skydyr]

During the 2001 conference, I purchased some 30 (not 60) books (some 20 at Kyobobooks, ca. 8 in another bookstore, ca. 1 at the Hankuk Kiwon, i.e., if you read elsewhere in a report by the Australian participant that I had had bought many at the Hankuk Kiwon, it is another wrong information) and got one or two and a clock as present. Packing all the books into my rucksack was a really tough exercise; I spent 4 hours during the last night to pack it and had to leave a couple of minor other things in Korea in order to get all those books and my clothes into the big rucksack:) I do not recall whether I rejected a pamphlet, but it would fit the pattern of my packing problem perfectly. BTW, I had roughly planned the book purchases already before the travel, estimating the expected weight per book (by measuring samples) and so ensuring not to pay for excess weight in the plane.

I'm kind of amused by this story, if for no other reason than that it sounds exactly like something I would do. I remember taking a business trip to Portland, Oregon, and leaving the city with as many books as I thought I could reasonably fit in my suitcase after a visit to Powell's. I'm sure any trip to east asia in the future will leave me in similar straits.