Surfing around the Korean portal sites looking for sordid tales involving foreign English teachers, I came across a piece from Dec. 28 (hey, better late then never) in the Herald Gyeongje reporting that some dumb 32-year-old American teacher was arrested on charges of habitually doing cocaine here in Korea.
Yongsan police busted the guy after being [...]
It’s not everyday that the government gives away recipes, but in a national affairs briefing today, the Ministry of Environment offered a couple of cooking tips to citizens wondering what the hell to do with all their leftover food from the Lunar New Year’s holiday. Included are Seol leftover pizza, seasoned rice balls and [...]
By SHELTON BUMGARNER
FNY Guest Blogger
You know it’s going to be one of those years when you read stuff like this in January:
While the U.S. and E.U. nations are scrambling to convince Iran to abandon its program of uranium enrichment and debating bringing the Islamic Republic before the U.N. Security Council, Tehran may be in the [...]
Oranckay, a.k.a. “Dickhead,” discusses Hiroaki Sato’s op-ed on Japan’s colonial history in Korea.
Go read it.
The Korea Times reports that major Korean portal sites are exaggerating or manipulating news items to draw hits.
Just wishing everyone a happy Lunar New Year’s Day holiday and a healthy and prosperous Year of the Dog.
Waiting with my wife for a taxi in front of the office, we were passed within a span of two minutes by a Mercedes E-Class, Jaguar S-Type and a Porsche 911.
Oh, yeah, and some poor fool driving a Honda Accord.
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By SHELTON BUMGARNER
FYN Guest Blogger
Matthew Stinson has a pretty good piece on Kim “Mr. Pantsuit” Jong-il’s Let Me See Your Goodies economic tour of go-go China that was written up in The New York Times recently.
News that Kim Jong-il left North Korea for a visit to China sparked
all kinds of media and blogospheric speculation at [...]
Elementary school teachers who pinch the gochus of their young male students are committing sexual abuse, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Former Unification Minister Jeong "Pearls for a Pig" Se-hyun continues to run his mouth off, this time in an interview with CBS (Korean). I’ll probably translate it this evening, if for no other reason that to give English speakers a little insight into the mindset of some of the key figures determining South Korean policy [...]
In his New Year’s press conference, President Roh issued a strong warning to U.S. conservatives seeking the overthrow of Kim Jong-il’s kingdom in the North (in Korean, NoCut News; in English, Korea Herald, Chosun Ilbo):
“There is no difference in views between Korea and the United States… but the Korean government does not agree to the [...]
Meeting with U.S. Ambassador Vershbow Wednesday, Justice Minister Chun Jung-bae asked the American envoy to work toward including Korea on the U.S. Visa Waiver Program as soon as possible.
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You may wish to access this page through its original name, http://marmot.blogs.com, for the time being. I am playing around with my DNS settings, so there’s no telling where www.rjkoehler.com will be pointing in a couple of hours.
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Online Sports Entertainment Network (OSEN) has provided a little bulletin board material for the Korean team ahead of the World Baseball Classic. Philadelphia Daily News columnist Bill Conlin, commenting on the Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese and Australian teams, said that while the Korean team is the strongest of the four (well, OSEN said he said so; [...]
OhMyNews’ Kim Tae Kyung looks at the burgeoning relationship between China and North Korea and attempts to debunk predictions that Beijing will dump Pyongyang anytime soon. He also expresses concern that North Korea is growing increasingly dependent on its Chinese benefactors, something that in the long term could prove a barrier to South Korean aspirations [...]
It might take me a little more time than I thought to move to the new site, so I’ll probably be using Typepad for the next couple of days, at least. On a positive note, I did manage to move all my archives over to Typepad, so search away.
Oh, and yes, I’m changing the name [...]
The Cultural Heritage Administration announced Tuesday ambitious plans to reconstruct much of historic downtown Seoul in a bid to turn the area into a UNESCO Historic City by 2015 (see also Korea Herald, Chosun Ilbo). The project, among other things, will include reconstructing the Gwanghwamun gate (by 2009) and parts of the old city [...]
Yonhap reports that the Foreign Ministry has taken exception with a U.S. embassy press release (.pdf file) issued Tuesday describing U.S. Treasury Department assistant secretary Daniel Glaser’s visit to Seoul. To quote from the problematic press release:
While in Seoul, Glaser met with officials throughout the Korean government to continue joint efforts to bolster defenses [...]
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been posting, I’ve been busy uploading my old archives (yes, the ones that got lost when I was kicked off my old host) and experimenting with Movable Type, Wordpress 2.0 and Expression Engine. My archive, as it stands now, amounts to 2,356 posts and 30,263 comments, even [...]
(by guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
The past permeates us. It gives us our assumptions, our frames of reference and all the rest of our mental shortcuts that make it possible to get through the day without having to analyze everything and every moment as if it were something new. Most of what we know is a [...]
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