If they would be so kind, I would get the eviction date extended by a day as i was looking forward to participating in the Buddhist celebrations.

This morning we were informed that Greenpeace head office in Amsterdam had received a fax from the Korean ministry of maritime and fishery's disputing our facts and that this was in fact not a whale meat factory but a whale sanitation processing plant aimed to improve hygiene-this is outrageously irrelevant as both would only encourage the slaughter and speed up the path to extinction.

Another interesting event was the New Zealand ambassador talking to the Mayor of Ulsan on the National news yesterday about his concerns regarding Korea's stance on whaling and alarm at their 'by catch'.This is great news for us,as we also are waiting for dialog with the mayor as he has the final say on the construction of the whale meat factory.

Yesterday we had the arrival of two new activists-Jan Schneider from Germany and Martina Badidova from Slovakia,bringing the numbers of foreign activists up to six. Both coming from country's who will Staunchly support whale conservation at this years International whaling Committee meeting here in Ulsan on June 20-24th.

Anyonghekasayo(goodbye)

Raoni