The target of late-night talk show derision no more, Hyundai now has its sights set on the U.S. luxury sedan market, reports BusinessWeek:
The base model is equipped with extras normally reserved for the high end: eight air bags, electronic stability control, a traction control system, rain-sensing wipers, a six-CD changer, and a power rear sunshade [...]
Over at Coming Anarchy, Curzon translates the section of Japan’s controversial Tsukurukai textbook mentioning the Nanjing Massacre/Nanjing Incident/Rape of Nanjing. What you really want to read, however, is the dialog in the comment section that follows. No superfly chicks with shapely boobs (for that, see previous post), but plenty of good discussion. Another example of [...]
Of course, why read a ton of geopolitical drivel when you can simply ogle pics of hot chicks with perfect breasts?
UPDATE: "Charlie Brown," who appears to be a fellow Hoya, also seems to feel Prof. Kang might not be on target with his WaPo piece.
ORIGINAL POST: In the WaPo a couple of days ago, Prof. David Kang argued for a new Korea strategy that would "widen the ‘North Korea problem’ from one of nuclear weapons [...]
Doug Bandow gives us yet another MUST READ over at Townhall.com:
During his Asian trip President George W. Bush met with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to highlight the two nations’ alliance. The next day President Roh’s government announced that it was withdrawing a third of its soldiers from Iraq. Never mind.
The Stockholm Syndrome is when [...]
Thank you, Sports Chosun.
UPDATE: And while perhaps not racing-girl related, the Sports Dong-a nevertheless deserves a note of gratitude for this.
UPDATE 2: Even better, Sports Dong-a!
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Not only did Jeong Guk-jin take some absolutely beautiful photos of the late fall foliage last weekend at Seoul’s Changdeok Palace, but he was kind enough to post them in a photo essay at OhMyNews as well. Be sure to check them out.
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UPDATE: SNU professor Lee Byeong-cheon, a member of Hwang’s research team, said about the JoongAng’s report that he was hearing such news for the first time, and that he has heard nothing of such demands being made by Prof. Shatten, and that Hwang has never mentioned such demands being made.
ORIGINAL POST: Oh boy. The [...]
Just a question some of you Flickr folk might be able to help me with. My HTML Flickr badge–which in theory is supposed to show 10 random photos from my Korea collection near the bottom of the right sidebar–doesn’t seem to work with Firefox. Shockingly enough, it works with IE. Anyone know how to go [...]
The Kyunghyang Shinmun ran a piece Monday on how Korea’s presidential contenders are making use of the Korean kinda-blog service Cyworld in an effort to convince potential voters that they are, in fact, human beings. Cyworld "minihompies" on display:
Grand National Party Chairwoman Park Geun-hye: Lots of pictures when Geun-hye was younger, living the kind of [...]
The NYT is shedding some light on the recent suicide of Samsung president Lee Kun-hee’s daughter Lee Yoon-hyung in New York. Questions still remain, however, the most perplexing one being, "Why?"
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Here’s another addition to your blog rolls — World Adventurers.
It’s an interesting medley of observations about life, culture and Korea, and comes with a ton of great photographs taken at a number of locations in Korea. The blog itself is attached to a larger website, World Adventurers.com, which is a collection of photos, writings and [...]
The Hanguk Ilbo is reporting that the "Hate the Korean Wave" is spreading throughout Japanese cyberspace, with alternative media like comic books and the Internet nudging aside the mainstream press as the main purveyors of anti-Korean sentiment in Japan.
Among the recurring themes found in anti-Korean circles:
Korea is a nation with illusions of grandeur, proclaiming that [...]
UPDATE: MBC ’s producers are standing by PD Notebook.
ORIGINAL POST: With supporters of Korean stem cell research maverick Hwang Woo-suk launching a candle-light protest in front of broadcaster MBC and even President Roh warning that things had gotten out of hand, the Kookmin Ilbo (Korean) reported that the clash between MBC and Korea’s netizen community [...]
A video of a public execution in North Korea recently played on CNN was a "sheer fabrication," says the KCNA.
UPDATE: Map to the area’s eateries can be found on this blog.
ORIGINAL POST: Earlier this month, I came across a piece in the Munhwa Ilbo on Gwanghui-dong’s "Central Asia Village" (Jungang ashia-chon), a small collection of Uzbek, Kazakh and Mongolian restaurants, bakeries and shops located near Dongdaemun Stadium. Being, as you know, married to a [...]
Joel of Far Outliers posts about Prof. Hong Wontack’s work on early Korean-Japanese relations and links to reviews and even one online edition of his books, including his latest, Korea and Japan in East Asian History: Paekche of the Korean Peninsula and the Origin of the Yamato Kingdom in the Japanese Islands. If you’re a [...]
In case you haven’t added it to your link list/bookmarks, click on over to Frog in a Well.net’s Korea History Group Blog. Great stuff by scholarly folk who know what they are writing about, and a great resource for non-specialists like myself.
Meant to plug it before, but slipped my mind with the blog move.
UPDATE: While [...]
UPDATE: Netizens are planning a candlelight demonstration against MBC investigative program "PD Notebook," whose Tuesday edition accused Prof. Hwang of acquiring eggs from subordinate team members. Meanwhile, two firms have pulled advertisements from PD Notebook’s time slot, and Woori and Kookmin banks are discussing suspending their ads.
ORIGINAL POST: Moving on to the big news of [...]
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