This, as my mother would say, takes a set of brass balls, as well as a clear lack of shame:
North Korea has filed a claim with the South seeking $US1 billion ($A1.34 billion) in compensation for mistreatment of prisoners who were repatriated to the North after serving jail terms in the South.
South Korea sent 63 [...]
Six of 10 Korean soldiers believe there’s little or no chance of a war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula, reported the Dong-A Ilbo.
Moreover, six of 10 soldiers said that with brisk exchanges taking place between the two Koreas since the June 2000 intra-Korean summit, the military needed to change its view of North Korea [...]
I don’t know what’s worse–that the NYT prints this drivel, or that I have to read about it in Pressian.
More and more Korean students are learning to become Korean teachers as the demand for the language grows.
Granted, at least the North Koreans might be learning something in the process, but still:
The first rice from a joint project in North Korea arrived at Gyeonggi provincial government offices yesterday following transport from Incheon port where it was unloaded last Tuesday. The first rice ever to come from the North was in 1984 as [...]
WARNING: Do not read this with anything around you that might damage your computer should you feel the sudden urge to chuck it at your monitor. Those with weak stomachs may wish to have a barf bag handy.
If you can’t sell it at inflated prices, you might as well not eat it, I guess:
Eleven Koreans [...]
As much as I hate limiting access to my comment section (or, to be more precise, making commenters go through an extra step in order to post), it has come to my attention that some joker is posting under other people’s IDs, including my own. That ain’t cool. Anyway, Typekey will hopefully rectify this issue.
Most of you have watched this before, of course, but that’s no reason not to watch a timeless classic again.
A Huntington woman was tragically killed in a landslide on Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The JoongAng Ilbo (Korean) reports that a conclusion has been reached to discussion concerning the Korean spelling of the name of the U.S. ambassador to Korea, Alexander Vershbow.
And to think I didn’t even know there was a discussion going on. But there was, apparently.
You see, according to the official rules for Koreanizing foreign words, the [...]
I’m just giddy with anticipation knowing Namco will release sometime this year the next title of its Ace Combat series for the PS2.
Also on the gaming front, Lucasarts is apparently coming out with a sequel to its seriously kick-ass third-person shooter "Mercenaries" entitled, "Mercenaries: World in Flames."
The Hanguk Ilbo notes that some are complaining about the emergency interphones installed in some of Seoul’s subway stations. Seoul City installed the phones in stations along the 5-8 subway lines in July, but because the word "EMERGENCY" is written in English, some commuters had no clue what the hell the phones were for. Said [...]
This should be warmly received:
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi squarely blamed China and South Korea on Wednesday for worsening relations with Japan, accusing them of interference in Japan’s domestic matters.
In a nationally broadcast news conference for the new year, Mr. Koizumi defended his annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial to Japan’s war dead, although [...]
In the China Daily (hat tip to the Segye Ilbo), Raymond Zhou examines why hit U.S. drama "Desperate Housewives" has failed in China while Korean dramas thrive:
So, how come a runaway hit ended up running aground in the largest potential market in terms of viewership?
Besides the inconvenient time slot, some criticize the dubbing for purging [...]
Well, this is certainly noteworthy:
Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s lobbying company has been hired by an Israeli aerospace firm competing against Boeing for a South Korean weapons deal, recently disclosed records said.
The lobby filing disclosure program at the Office of Public Records showed Washington-based Ashcroft Group registering Israel Aircraft Industries International (IAI) late last [...]
I know someone must have mentioned this before, but does anyone else find it a tad unusual to hold an international journalism conference in North Korea?
UPDATE: The Chosun Ilbo discusses Seoul’s sub plans, although it doesn’t mention anything about nuclear propulsion.
ORIGINAL POST: South Korea may acquire nuclear-powered attack subs by 2015, reports the Dong-A Ilbo.
Citing material turned over by the Defense Ministry to the newly launched Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), the paper said the Defense Ministry is pushing a [...]
Mingi Hyun’s excellent blog has migrated to Typepad.
And I’ve been meaning to mention that Brian has moved Cathartidae to Wordpress.com.
And just to note, if you haven’t done so yet, switch your links for this blog from http://marmot.blogs.com to http://www.rjkoehler.com. I’ll probably be setting up either a Movable Type or Wordpress blog (most likely the latter) [...]
(By guest blogger Andy Jackson)
It seems that Korean lesbians have a hard time. Well, not literally of course but, er…. here is the link:
A significant number of lesbians in South Korea have suffered ostracism and discrimination due to their sexual orientation, a survey suggests. According to the poll announced Monday by the Lesbian Rights Research [...]
The NYT asks the Bush administration to give diplomacy a chance. Personally, I’m not a fan of name-calling–I don’t believe the North Koreans really give a rat’s ass what people call them, and if you think a "hard-line" is going to get you leverage in negotiations with Pyongyang, your "hard-line" had better encompass more than [...]
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