February 28, 2006 – 6:04 pm
This one is soooo much sweeter.
February 28, 2006 – 5:51 pm
Well, this probably says a lot:
A writer has filed a lawsuit against the authors of alleged malicious comments against his pro Japan column on a political website.
The prosecutor’s office confirmed that it began an investigation on Friday regarding the case brought by Kim Wan sup against 570 internet users he claims are responsible for the [...]
February 27, 2006 – 9:40 am
UPDATE 2: It seems the mysteries of DNS are on full display: sometimes they point to this site, sometimes they point to the old one (which will be closed shortly). I’d imagine this will continue for another day or so (they say DNS changes take 24-72 hours to work themselves out).
UPDATE: As you can probably [...]
February 27, 2006 – 12:10 am
(by guest blogger Andy Jackson)
I just came across a piece in a series of articles being reprinted in the World Peace Herald (a name that just screams kumbaya quality) on ‘crises that face North and South Korea and the prospects for a unified Korea.’
The most recent piece is on the shift in South Korean reunification [...]
February 26, 2006 – 2:57 pm
By SHELTON BUMGARNER
NTY Guest Blogger
I continue to get an uneasy feeling that we’re just about to reach the tipping point when it comes to Americans teaching EFL in Korea. The New York Times, whose publisher I’ve met, don’tcha know, seems to be rooting its nose around the issue. While Korea isn’t really mentioned in [...]
February 25, 2006 – 1:09 pm
The Dong-A Ilbo reports that the Korean Wave is battering American shores, with Korean dramas, films and music becoming increasingly popular among Asian Americans. The paper says that with Chinese and Japanese-language cable stations in the United States running more Korean dramas, the number of Korean drama fans in that country have greatly increased, [...]
February 25, 2006 – 12:09 pm
A Korean woman testified by videolink she was drugged and raped after two men bought her a spiked drink in a Sydney bar:
A Korean woman has told court how she was sexually assaulted after two strangers bought her drinks at a Sydney bar.
The woman, who cannot be named, today gave evidence against Chebli Djait, 37, [...]
February 25, 2006 – 2:14 am
This doesn’t bode well–from the JoongAng Ilbo:
Global energy firms were girding for war last year in their efforts to clinch contracts for oil and gas contracts around the world, especially around the Caspian Sea, in Nigeria and in Brazil. According to the Korea National Oil Corp., though, Korean companies signed only three new contracts out [...]
February 25, 2006 – 1:59 am
Former Grand National Party spokeswoman Chun Yu-ok continues to conform to just about every negative stereotype of the Korean ajummah, this time with a speech in Daejeon in which she said former President Kim Dae-jung “looked like a senile old man” when he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in 2000:
In a speech she [...]
February 25, 2006 – 12:56 am
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said four people have tested positive for antibodies of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. The four had participated in the cull of chickens and ducks during Korea’s bird flu outbreak between December 2003 and March 2004.
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February 24, 2006 – 1:51 pm
Dude, this is just fucked up.
February 24, 2006 – 1:20 pm
Must Read!!!
The NYT’s Norimitsu Onishi discusses the complex role Korean Christians are playing in the North Korean human rights movement:
After spending 18 months illegally in China in the mid-1980’s and converting to Christianity, Kim Tae Jin was locked up for four years in North Korea’s infamous prison camp No. 15 at Yodok.
He fled the North [...]
February 24, 2006 – 9:20 am
And speaking of white chicks…
Two days late, I know, but in case you didn’t hear, Australian basketballer Lauren Jackson (24) has signed a three-year mega-deal with a yet-undisclosed Korean club. The center, who is considered the best female basketballer in the world, will also continue to play for the Seattle Storm of the U.S. [...]
February 24, 2006 – 1:19 am
The man who leaked secret documents pertaining to Korea-U.S. negotiations over the issue of “strategic flexibility” to an Uri Party lawmaker was a Foreign Ministry official dispatched to Cheong Wa Dae as a protocol officer, reports the JoongAng Ilbo (see also the Chosun Ilbo, Dong-A Ilbo). From the JoongAng:
Speculation is rising that Lee Jong-heon, [...]
February 23, 2006 – 11:04 pm
Heading home after two years on the Korean Peninsula, departing 8th Army commander Lieutenant General Charles C. Campbell got a Korean name from a pro-U.S. civic group.
February 23, 2006 – 7:05 pm
You know, as a Republican, I’m sometimes distressed by President Bush’s approval ratings. But then I think to myself, gee, there are people who have it much worse. Like President Roh Moo-hyun. The Korea Society Opinion Institute (KSOI) announced today that the POTROK’s approval ratings had hit 22.9 percent, almost a record low for his [...]
February 23, 2006 – 3:07 pm
The Korea Herald takes a look at the oft-forgotten (but never unappreciated) Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC), i.e., the Swiss and Swedish military observers up in Panmunjeom. For much of the 53-year history of the Cold War, the Swiss and Swedes were joined by observers from Poland and Czechoslovakia, two paragons of Cold War [...]
February 23, 2006 – 2:33 pm
Local theater people and filmgoers have launched a war against spoilers for the film Saw II.
February 23, 2006 – 2:21 pm
With interest in mixed-race Koreans intensifying thanks to the Hines Ward-Daniel Henny craze, mixed-race Koreans have apparently asked the media to stop using the term “Kosian” to refer to the children of marriages between Koreans and other Asians (usually Korean men and Southeast Asian women and South Asian laborers and Korean women), reports NoCut News. [...]
February 23, 2006 – 1:18 pm
Seoul police have applied for an arrest warrant for the 42-year-old manager of a pottery studio in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do for indecent behavior. During an interview with a 22-year-old female job applicant at the studio, the manager pressed the applicant to have a drink, and then suddenly stripped and told her to touch him. [...]
