Grand National Party Chairwoman Park Geun-hye was attacked by two drunken goons democracy activists tonight (Yonhap):
Park, chairwoman of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP), was canvassing for Oh Se-hoon, GNP candidate for Seoul mayor, in Sinchon in Seoul when one of the men, identified only by his surname Ji, allegedly slashed the right side [...]
Tell me you, too, saw the irony in this:
“What the president has said all along is that he wants to make sure that people who become American citizens have a command of the English language,” Snow said. “It’s as simple as that.”
Some time next year, 43-year-old singer Bang Siri will be getting nekkid before the camera.
Yes, this Bang Siri:
No, you can’t mean this one?
Yes, I mean that one.
No, why would I lie about something like this.
She plans to work out for a year (she’s already at 65 kg, down from 81 kg four years ago) and [...]
I’d heard that ballerinas’ feet get pretty messed up, but I didn’t realize how messed up until I saw a photo of the feet of Stuttgart Ballet principal dancer Kang Sue-jin.
UPDATE: If the Foreign Ministry wasn’t scary enough, an NIS official warned protesters that if they attempted to harm themselves or threw “dangerous substances” at public buildings, U.S. authorities could charge them with violations of counter-terrorism laws, meaning their stay in the pen would be a long one.
ORIGINAL POST: Korean anti-FTA activists are planning a [...]
In their race for Seoul mayor, GNP’s Oh Se-hoon and Uri Party’s Kang Kum-sil are working hard to connect with the proletariat (HT to Cathartidae):
Even after the heated arguments in the studio, a seesaw battle of debates on somin continued with Kang, a former justice minister, taking the lead in attacking Oh’s posh image that [...]
Well, at least Korea got in. Mongolia completely got the gas face.
(HT to the Lost Nomad)
Found myself in a bit of a cultural pickle yesterday.
After work, I got on the bus to head home, as usual. I took an open seat and plugged in the MP3 earphones. The next stop, however, a young Western woman got on the bus, and as the seats had filled up, she had [...]
It was a 4-page translation, so please read the damn thing
The Weekly Chosun magazine ran a piece a little while’s back on China’s growing economic, political and military clout in and along the Indian and Pacific oceans. Anyway, for the benefit of non-Korean speakers, I’ve translated the piece below, and added some brief notes [...]
(by guest blogger, R. Elgin)
So what happens when one combines video games with their cell phone in Korea?
This is the question that the Korea Game Development Institute (KGDI) and the Korean Culture & Content Agency (KOCCA) take very seriously. According to statistics from the Korea Game Development Institute, the global mobile game market is [...]
More evidence why this blog needs T&A:
But, Huang Chunyi, is 94 years young and does not credit vegetables, meditation, Tai Chi or Metamucil with his health. He says it is because he cuts out photos of beautiful women and stores them in scrapbooks. China News reported this is a daily event. The Taiwan resident (the [...]
Pretty cool stuff
Korean blogger Hold the Elevator posted a pictorial history of the development of Korea’s paper bills, from 1902 to the present. Give it a look.
It’s been 26 years since the fateful events of May 18, 1980, but as recent news would indicate, the past is still with us.
(NOTE: Before you begin reading, be sure to check out Antti’s collection of photos from the Gwangju Uprising)
MUST SEE!!!!
Russian computer guru Artemiy Lebedev recently went to North Korea, and he’s got the photos to prove it. It’s a four-part series (in a language I can’t understand), but the photos are absolutely AMAZING.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
(HT to the individual who emailed me the links)
Well, when the Rodong Shinmun is running pieces like this, I guess these kinds of incidents have to be expected (Korean version via the Seoul Shinmun here):
The North’s delegation leader Maj. Gen. Kim Yong-chul started off an unfortunate thread by quipping, “Since the climate in the South is warmer, the farmers must be hard at [...]
Kwangdong Brian did a very interesting podcast recently with former compatriot Marcus of An Ex-Canadian in Korea. The two discuss Marcus’ decision to naturalize as a Korean citizen. Nary a properly pronounced diphthong between the two of them
Anyway, be sure to give it a listen.
And now for something completely different:
Yes, I know you’ve all seen it before.
Mike Hurt (a.k.a. the Metropolitician) wrote me the other day about a blog written by one of his students, shyAcBaRi. Mike thought the blog would be of interest to the English K-blogging community, noting that it was “one of the few English blogs written by Korean nationals, moreover being one written by a kid [...]
As readers may already know, I’m something of a fan of Stalinist architecture. Not, of course, that I would actually encourage a city to deck itself out in Socialist Classicism, but still, it looks so damn cool. Anyway, the Moscow Museum of Architecture has a page on some of Moscow’s unrealized architectural projects [...]
Humanitarians that we are here at the Marmot’s Hole, we feel duty-bound to direct traffic to A Virgins Plea. Who could read this cry for help and not be moved to tears:
So, here’s the story - I’m 25, and to this date, have never been laid. Yes, it’s sad, but it’s true. The whole story, [...]
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