Talk:2008 New York Philharmonic visit to North Korea

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This article was nominated for deletion on 3 March 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

Origin

The DPRK Ministry of Culture sent an invitation to the NY Philharmonic in August 2007 through a "third party intermediary".[1] It was officially accepted on Dec. 11th, 2007. --76.113.200.215 (talk) 18:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added what I could find, including the date the Philharmonic informed Reuters of the invitation (Aug. 13).[2][3] This should be the first official recognition of the event. --76.113.200.215 (talk) 09:27, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

I have nominated this article for deletion for the reasons listed on the main page. I think some discussion is now in order.

Kst447 (talk) 03:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Substantive coverage (over 20 citations thus far) in multiple independent reliable secondary sources from several different countries' news media suggests that this subject is notable. It is not a minor or trivial news story. TIME called it "historic."

Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 06:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

keep- the deletion suggestion is ludicrous and provided by an editor who never made a single improvement to the article. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 06:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep- why should it be deleted simply because it's a one-time political event? --Etherialemperor (talk) 07:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
KeepSubstantive event. Why delete? No merge alternative.--Aboveloan0239 (talk) 04:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep For now anyway, only time will tell how historic this event is/was. It can always be removed later. -- kev. (talk) 23:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Why throw away an article just because it happened recently? This IS history, after all. It illustrates one of the few times that North Korea has opened its doors to other countries. Plus, if we throw away seemingly unimportant things all the time, there would BE no history...--Princess Janay (talk) 23:15, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Who paid

Does anyone have info on who funded/what percentages of who funded what?--Aboveloan0239 (talk) 04:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Asiana Airlines, and Yoko Nagae Ceschina, a Japanese millionaire [4].

A personal friendship between Zarin Mehta, the orchestra's president and executive director, and Park Sam-koo, head of a South Korean conglomerate that owns Asiana Airlines, led to the loan of the 747. [5]

MBC, one of three main broadcasters in South Korea, offered to pay for the charter in exchange for the rights to broadcast an extra concert by the Philharmonic in Seoul on its return from Pyongyang [6]

Yoko Nagae Ceschina [7] [8]

--76.113.200.215 (talk) 11:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Good stuff.-Aboveloan0239 (talk) 19:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On The Radio?

The article states that the concert was not broadcast on DPRK (NK) radio. And it cites a source for this statement. However, there seem to be conflicting reports on this. For example, the article in the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/weekinreview/02wakin.html?em&ex=1204520400&en=71c434a846850ae8&ei=5087%0A and in the L.A. Times at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-korea28feb28,1,7102307.story?ctrack=1&cset=true state that it was indeed on the radio. Until this can be cleared up I'm going to take the statement out of the article. kev. (talk) 22:58, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just to note here, AFP says it wasn't: [9] --76.113.200.215 (talk) 01:00, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it seems that some sources say that it wasn't on and some say that it was. Unfortunately, without being able to talk to people who were listening to North Korean radio at the time I'm not sure anyone will be able to get to the bottom of this. kev. (talk) 11:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]