November 25, 2005 – 2:57 am
Sisa Journal (Korean) has a pretty nice piece on the "black Korean," Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward.
English speakers can check out SI’s interview with Ward from January.
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November 25, 2005 – 2:35 am
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
November 25, 2005 – 1:51 am
Also in the CSM (albeit from spring), there’s a thought-provoking column comparing the Japanese right’s moves to strike the nation’s wartime mobilization of "comfort women" and U.S. history textbooks’ pussyfooting around its own "comfort women," i.e., the mass rape of female African-American slaves during the ante-bellum period:
Take the example of Harriet Jacobs, who was born [...]
November 25, 2005 – 1:33 am
Well, on the face of it, this doesn’t look good:
Miyako Masuda is a 23-year veteran of public schools here. Like many Japanese history teachers of her generation, she dislikes new textbooks that frame Japan as the victim in World War II. It bothers her that books claiming America caused the war are now adopted by [...]
November 24, 2005 – 5:06 pm
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
UPATE: Tim Peters, Kang Chol-hwan and former Hangcheongnyeon (I hope I spelled that right) member Kim Young-Hwan will be the main speakers.
Those who missed Dr Lankov’s lecture on North Korea last Tuesday will have another chance. Liberation in North Korea (LiNK), is sponsoring several lectures on human rights in North Korea [...]
November 24, 2005 – 4:23 pm
Well, I guess Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker deserves a statue, but you’d think Matthew Ridgway should get one first.
November 24, 2005 – 1:55 pm
I posted last week that South Korea sent the third largest number of students to the United States, behind China and India. What I noticed today, however, that in addition to students, there are 8,301 Korean professors and researchers working in the United States. This places Korea second behind China with 17,000.
Interestingly enough, while the [...]
November 24, 2005 – 1:41 pm
Don’t get me wrong — it’s a tragedy when a seriously disturbed Korean guy beats to death his two daughters and hospitalizes his Filipino wife. But is that headline really necessary?
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November 24, 2005 – 1:04 pm
Learned today that the Korean fir tree–the Abies koreana–is considered one of the world’s most popular Christmas trees. The tree is indigenous to the mountains of southern Korea, namely, Mt. Halla, Mt. Deogyu and the Jiri Mountains, although the tree was taken to the United States and Europe in 1905, where it would be cultivated [...]
November 23, 2005 – 9:11 am
U.S. restaurant chain BD’s Mongolian Barbecue has apparently opened up a joint in UB:
IN ONE fell swoop, Billy Downs brought Mongolian barbecue back to Mongolia and gave the exotic country its first taste of one of the most American of businesses, the franchise restaurant.
BD’s Mongolian Barbecue, a Michigan-based company that opened its first restaurant in [...]
November 22, 2005 – 6:32 pm
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
(UPDATE: You can read a very good summary of the lecture at Such is Life)
ORIGINAL POST: As reported by Oranckay, Andrei Lankov will be giving a lecture on North Korea at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club near Seoul city hall (map).
I went to one of Lankov’s lectures last winter and really enjoyed [...]
November 22, 2005 – 10:08 am
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
We interrupt your regular reading for some shameless self-promotion.
My latest Tech Central Station piece is up.
Y’all go read it and tell me what you think. Don’t feel shy about saying how you really feel (commenters at the Hole rarely do). One commenter over at my blog said that I was being [...]
November 22, 2005 – 9:26 am
You know, looking at the second picture here, I couldn’t help but thinking:
"Are we sending the right message to Baghdad here?"
Oh, and Bush in Mongolia headline of the day so far:
"Bush drinks mare’s milk, avoids camels" (Good piece, BTW)
Say what you want about our head of state — he might not be good with names [...]
November 21, 2005 – 8:42 pm
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
President Bush’s recent Asian tour must have seemed like a gizzard sandwich with fresh-from-the-oven bread. He started out with America’s closest ally in east Asia (can anyone doubt that we are talking of any country other than Japan), then went to a mixed reception in South Korea followed by tough talks [...]
November 21, 2005 – 10:55 am
The NYT’s Norimitsu Onishi discusses the infamous "Hating the Korean Wave" comic book and the popularity in Japan of negative images of the country’s Korean and Chinese neighbors:
A young Japanese woman in the comic book "Hating the Korean Wave"
exclaims, "It’s not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" In another [...]
November 19, 2005 – 2:56 pm
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
I was reading about the President Bush’s trip to Korea, we I came across this:
When the women stopped singing, he approached them, and the choir members surrounded him, bowing and giggling. "Thank you all," he said. "Be careful, don’t fall," he said to some who pressed in close. Bush reached over [...]
November 18, 2005 – 1:41 pm
The Defense Ministry is planning to cut the number of Korean troops in Iraq by a third in the first half of the year:
South Korea will begin phasing out one-third of its 3,260 troops stationed in Iraq on a humanitarian mission in the first half of next year, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
The government will [...]
November 18, 2005 – 1:37 pm
From Yonhap:
The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday adopted a European Union-sponsored resolution on North Korean human rights, expressing concern over the communist nation’s use of torture, prison camps and other types of inhumane treatment of its people.
Eighty-four members voted for and 22 voted against the resolution at the assembly’s Third Committee, in which all 191 [...]
November 17, 2005 – 8:08 pm
OK, not quite, but some of the photos from GWB’s visit to Busan are still pretty funny.
November 17, 2005 – 12:54 pm
These North Koreans are a clever bunch — not only are pretty faces good for scoring propaganda points over your hedonistic Southern adversary, they can also move the merchandise. From Yonhap:
Female models that grace the major pages of North Korean-run corporate websites. The woman on the upper left, dancer Cho Myong-ae, has also done an [...]
