I know Andy will probably break down all the scores either later tonight or tomorrow, but just to give you a quick rundown of where we are now, the votes are still being counted, but Yonhap News is already proclaiming Sunday’s local elections to be the worst election defeat suffered by the ruling Uri Party [...]
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Taken straight from LiNK’s weblog:
LiNK is amassing a giant collection of “messages to the president” which we shall put on a banner to be delivered to South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to show him that the people of Korea and the world are watching how he deals with the North Korean human [...]
UPDATE: It saddens me to post that it appears the news was true. I really don’t know what to say. Shawn was an inspiration to many of us Korea bloggers, and his tragic death comes as a great, great shock. Again, I send my heartfelt condolences to his friends and family. [...]
The Hanguk Ilbo reports that two U.S. servicemen have been booked—but not detained—on charges of a) stealing two bags from a Songpa-gu bar and b) assaulting the arresting officer with a beer bottle.
According to police, the two servicemen stole two bags—containing a grand total of 14,000 won, credit cards and an MP3 player—from a Sincheon-dong [...]
(By Andy Jackson)
I would say to vote early and often but a commenter beat me to it.
Tomorrow’s vote is the last big test before the Presidential election next year and the results of these local votes will have strong national repercussions. This piece from the Korea Times gives a pretty good overview of the elections. [...]
As Skindleshanks points out, some foreigners will be eligible to vote in tomorrow’s local elections. Anyway, read his post—it’s rather interesting. And heck, maybe even you can go out there and ROK the vote.
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AP is reporting the discovery of a letter from then-U.S. ambassador to Korea John J. Muccio that seems to suggest incidents like the Nogun-ri killings of July 1950 was in-line with a military policy of shooting refugee columns approaching from the north:
More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war’s [...]
(by Andy Jackson)
As previously posted, I am a big fan of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK). They picked up another blogger fan at a symposium last Saturday (see Kevin’s post for details of that event).
Over the next few days, LiNK will be conducting the last few events of a two-week campaign they have been conducting here [...]
Well, this doesn’t look good
NoCut News is reporting that U.S. soldiers pointed their M-16s into the chests of two farmers who had the temerity to ask the soldiers, who were on a training exercise, to clear the road so that they could water their fields.
The two farmers, a 50-year-old Mr. Hong and 50-year-old Mr. Ahn, [...]
This is so dumb-founding I will just let the angry white* man speak for himself:
“I’m surprised and disgusted at the same time that with all the English-speaking people in Korea, that the broadcasters would not enlarge their viewer base.”
And:
A lot of English-speaking people from ambassadors to lowly English teachers who don’t have the ability to [...]
When it rains, it pours.
YTN reports that Ansan police have filed for an arrest warrant for a 28-year-old Korean man who is being charged with sexually assaulting six middle school girls in the dormitory of an English camp in Ansan.
The man, who was a teacher at the camp, stands accused of entering the dormitory at [...]
I have just finished rereading The Korean War by Max Hastings. It is a pretty good introduction on the war although, having been written in the late 1980s, it is in major need of revision. For example, we now know that the Chinese were hankering to get involved in the war long before UN forces [...]
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English Spectrum has earned the media spotlight once again! The website, which was temporarily shut down last year thanks to a vicious netizen offensive sparked by the discovery of photographs of foreign English teachers and Korean women engaging in party behavior deemed unbecoming for both parties, has apparently failed to mend its ways, [...]
Over at Daves ESL Cafe, the foreign coordinators of Seongnam English Town note that my original post (based on my initial reading of the Segye Ilbo report) was incorrect in two aspects:
We are the foreign coordinators of Seongnam English Town and felt we should write and post our statement about the allegations of sexual harassment. [...]
Asian-Americans apparently dominate university Christian organizations. Or at least in California.
And why ABC’s “Lost” means speaking Korean isn’t a completely useless skill in the United States.
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Well, if it’s in the WaiWai, it must be true!
“There are loads of cases where second- or third-generation Korean residents of Japan actually visit Korea and realize just how much different they are to the people actually living there. Many of these people decide they’d be better off living as a Japanese. And now, that [...]
In an op-ed to the WaPo, Dan Blumenthal, a resident fellow in Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute, warns Americans to take seriously China’s increasing military clout:
The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on China’s military power, released this week, reveals that Beijing’s buildup has advanced well beyond what most analysts considered likely just 10 [...]
Bong Joon-ho’s latest flick “The Host” really impressed NYT film critic Manohla Dargis, who called it the best film she’s seen so far at Cannes:
Another offering from South Korea — and the best film I’ve seen to date at this year’s festival — is “The Host,” which for some reason is screening outside the main [...]
Korean forward Lee Chun-soo—who, truth be told, is a dick—is warning Group G opponent Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor that he’ll come to regret comments he made reportedly dissing Korea’s 2002 performance.
According to Korean sports news OSEN, Adebayor supposedly said—you may want to sit down for this—that Korea was helped to the semifinal match of the [...]
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