December 26, 2005 – 1:05 pm
UPDATE: Thanks to CCTV, we have video footage of the girls’ Christmas night rampage. Original reports appear to have been slightly exaggerated, but the video is amusing, none the less. Thanks a lot, June.
ORIGINAL POST: Kids these days. Suwon police reportedly had their hands full with two drunk high school girls, including a 16-year-old Miss [...]
December 26, 2005 – 12:31 pm
Japanese filmmaker Shinji Aoyama is apparently miffed by Korean actor Bae Yong-joon moistening panties in his native land:
"I really want to say this," the director said, clearly exasperated. "To me, Japanese women who flock to see Yonsama (Korean actor Bae Yong-joon) are repulsive. When I see something so repulsive, whoever they are carrying on about, [...]
December 26, 2005 – 9:02 am
It has come to my attention that I’d made the unpardonable mistake of leaving long-time Korea blogger and fellow Hoya the Big Hominid off my sidebar. This oversight, by no means intentional, has been rectified, so be sure to visit BigHominid’s Hairy Chasms as much as humanly possible.
Oh, and Drambiue Man has moved to Blogspot. [...]
December 24, 2005 – 5:37 pm
Just to show you that we Buddhists can also get into the Yuletide spirit:
Ripped off from here and here, respectively.
Oh, and the merry men who run the green tea plantations in Boseong are in a holiday mood as well.
Pic taken from here.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
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December 24, 2005 – 12:35 am
The Ministry of Unification would like you to know that contrary to earlier media reports, Comrade Unification Minister Chung Dong-young was NOT bombarded by eggs thrown by angry Korean-Americans during during a meeting Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles. The ministry did say there was a protest, but that reports of an egg salute were groundless. [...]
December 23, 2005 – 1:44 pm
I’d image these photos are all over cyberspace by now, but that doesn’t make them any less pleasing to the eye.
December 23, 2005 – 1:39 pm
The Korean garden built in Guangzhou, China is apparently quite popular with locals, says Gyeonggi Province. As mentioned before, the garden is a counterpart to a Chinese garden built in Suwon.
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December 23, 2005 – 11:30 am
UPDATE 12: Be sure to check out the post on this over at Blog.bioethics.net. And, of course, Bioethics.net has a ton of news and link regarding the Hwang story.
UPDATE 11: If you want to read the SNU interim investigation result announcement in full and in English, here it is (via the Korea Times).
UPDATE 10: SBS [...]
December 22, 2005 – 3:44 pm
Former Hwang Woo-suk collegue Roh Sung-il is reportedly dodging Internet rumors that he’s a U.S. citizen. In a telephone conversation with a reporter from Edaily, Roh strongly denied the rumors, saying he’s a reserve captain in the ROK Army and a good, tax-paying citizen of Korea.
He did spend three years studying in the United States–at [...]
December 22, 2005 – 2:31 pm
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
Even if you don’t understand Swedish, you will enjoy this montage of Korean riot footage. Just follow these directions:
When on the Studio 24 site, click on the link "se senaste programmet", and then on the link "Studio 24 tisdag" (only Real Player). Fast forward 10 minutes and 15 seconds.
BTW, I found [...]
December 22, 2005 – 1:36 pm
Neither Korea might like the new U.S. ambassador in Seoul, but House International Relations Committee chairman Henry Hyde apparently does–OFK has a letter written by Hyde to Ambassador Vershbow that really is a MUST READ. Here’s the money shot:
Those who inflict suffering on these innocent people are, indeed, members of a "criminal regime." Those who [...]
December 22, 2005 – 1:24 pm
Although it didn’t snow quite as much as it did in the Jeolla provinces, Seoul did get a little snow yesterday. The new banner image was taken from a window where I work in the Bukchon neighborhood.
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December 22, 2005 – 1:17 pm
A number of Korean media sources (in this case, the Kyunghyang Shinmun), quoting Kanwa Defense Review, are reporting that the Chinese navy will begin trials of its new Type 94 SSBN by the end of the year. The boats would be formally commissioned within two years. Not only is the sub supposedly loaded with more [...]
December 22, 2005 – 12:52 pm
More foreign policy wonk material (in .pdf format)–albeit much shorter than the last–from the ICG. Many readers are probably already familiar with much of its content, but it remains a good summary of the historical, territorial (including Dokdo and Kando) and nationalistic disputes that plague this little neck of the woods. As it begins:
Shifting power [...]
December 22, 2005 – 12:28 pm
CNN caught Yonhap’s attention by claiming in a report on cosmetic eyelid surgery in Korea that Korean women began getting the procedure in the 1950s in order to draw the attention of U.S. GIs by looking more white.
Where they got that information, I don’t know. Korea’s first eyejobs are believed to have been performed by [...]
December 21, 2005 – 1:41 pm
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
Khabarovsk, Russia is about to get a chemical bath from 100 tons of Chinese toxins:
The chemicals that spilled last month from a factory explosion upriver in China were expected to reach Khabarovsk as soon as Wednesday. The Emergency Situations Ministry said late Tuesday that the spill was about 70 kilometers up [...]
December 21, 2005 – 1:15 pm
Schatten demanded US$200,000 from Hwang? Hmm…
An official from the World Stem Cell Hub, however, denies ever receiving such a request, although he said he didn’t know whether the Hwang team received one directly.
This isn’t the first time Schatten has been accused of making demands of Hwang just prior to their split–the JoongAng, of course, reported [...]
December 21, 2005 – 11:21 am
CSIS has released a paper on cooperative threat reduction and North Korea (.pdf format) that foreign policy wonks out there will no doubt love.
North Korea??s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missiles
are a clear and present danger to the United States, the countries of Northeast Asia
and the international community. Therefore, their verifiable elimination will [...]
December 21, 2005 – 9:41 am
UPDATE: Switched back to fixed-width template. It’s just more me.
ORIGINAL POST: I’ve been playing around with a fluid template design that gives much more space to content, but so far, the reviews have been overwhelmingly negative. It’s a bit minimalist, I know. Anyway, I was wondering if readers hated it as well before I switched [...]
December 20, 2005 – 2:08 pm
Hong Kong authorities are prepared to charge 11 Korean farmers with holding an illegal demonstration, assault, rioting and destruction of public property (including, quite possibly, the defacing of the U.S. consulate and storming of a Korean diplomatic compound). If found guilty of rioting, the farmers could earn a 10-year vacation in a Hong Kong jail. [...]
