(by guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
Hwang Woo-suk recently had this to say about reporters sticking their noses in his business (On a serious note, The Chosun is in rare form in that piece.):
??I don??t understand why non-scientific parties are involving themselves in scientific matters,?? he says. ??Science has an independent path to follow, and its own [...]
(by guest blogger, Andy Jackson (OK, really by conscripted blogger Brendon Carr))
I found I couple of the comments in my last post by Brendon Carr so interesting and informative that I decided that they deserved their own post. They are certainly sage advice for anyone wanting to do business in Korea.
One thing I want to [...]
(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
UPDATE: In yet another twist MBC has apologized for its reporters’ own unethical practices while conducting their investigation but stands but their accusation of fraud against Hwang’s lab. The fallout from the Hwang scandal is also starting to effect the work of other Korean scientists. Read the latests Yonhap reports for [...]
(By guest blogger Andy Jackson)
I am going to take advantage of being a guest blogger here push a project I am trying to get started.
Rather than write the whole thing over again, here is the beef from a post on my blog:
Seoul Summit: Promoting Human Rights in North Korea has declared December 5 to 11 [...]
(By guest blogger Andy Jackson)
I wonder how much North Korean booty Anti-Unification Minister Chung Dong-young will have to kiss to make up for this atrocity:
North Korea has threatened to sever military ties with South Korea, accusing Seoul of allowing US troops to flaunt their presence in two border areas used for inter-Korean exchanges and [...]
I’m going to be in Beijing until Monday evening, so expect posting (at least from me) to be light-to-non existent for the next couple of days. Andy (a.k.a the Flying Yangban) and some of the other guest bloggers may be kind enough to put up a post or two.
And I probably don’t have to say [...]
With representatives of the Korean Peasants League set to descend upon Hong Kong for next month’s WTO meeting, League spokesman Kwak Gil Seong explained to Chinese business paper The Standard his views on free trade:
"Industrial products can be under free trade, but our culture depends on farming. It’s our livelihood" said Kwak.
How nice. [...]
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