Is it too early to call this Gamegate?
If you live in Korea you cannot help but notice all the hoopla over the emerging Sea Story gambling scandal. It has been taking the first ten minutes of every local news broadcast lately.
Game rooms like Sea Story are scattered all over Korea. They have sprouted up like mushrooms over [...]
With Lee Hyori and Jeon Ji-hyun battling out as Korea’s sexiest woman via adverts for Samsung’s Anycall cellphones, Asian Sirens (NOT work safe) links to the commercials to help you decide on your own.
Enjoy.
(HT to reader)
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Yonhap reports that late last month, a North Korean spy using a laundered Filipino passport was arrested in Seoul, the first time a North Korean agent has been busted under the Roh administration.
Between 1996 and 1997, he infiltrated South Korea several times using a laundered Thai passport. He spent his time taking photos of [...]
As long as we’re talking about education standards here – Newsweek International did another listing of the world’s 100 best universities that caught my eye. There are many of these done these days; this one focused on the extent of the school’s “globalization”, with particular weight on the international-class research that its professors have successfully published. You [...]
Much like his counterpart to the North, President Roh appears to have given up on the Bush administration:
President Roh Moo-hyun has expressed his frustration about the deadlocked ties between North Korea and the United States, saying that he feels it is almost impossible to persuade President George W. Bush to mend fences.
“I don’t think I [...]
More evidence that Japan is an extremely fucked up country. Or light years ahead of the rest of us. Take your pick.
BTW, this was hella funny, too.
UPDATE: Welcome all you surfing in from Naver.com’s Enjoy Korea. The Marmot’s Hole: Bridging the East Sea cyber-divide since 2003.
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Civil rights leader, former UN ambassador and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young resigned his post at Wal-Mart after he told the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African-American newspaper, that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had “ripped off” urban communities by selling residents “stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.”
“You see those are the people [...]
Tip of the hat to Nomad for pointing out this (maybe not work safe).
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Budaechigae remembers (I, II, III) the Aug. 18, 1976 Axe Murder Incident.
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Over at the Asia Pages, Jodi has a very thought-provoking piece on interracial adoption. Her post having sparked my curiosity, I did a quick search to see if there are cases of Koreans adopting non-Korean babies. I was (sorta) surprised to learn that it’s actually illegal for Korean nationals to adopt foreign babies. Or so [...]
In the IHT, veteran journalist Choe Sang-hun discusses Korea’s unfortunately notorious netizen community and the government’s moves to limit cyberviolence:
In South Korea, which has one of the world’s most developed Internet communities, the problem known as “cyberviolence” has reached frightening proportions, officials say.
Complaints filed with the government’s Korea Internet Safety Commission more than doubled to [...]
As the unofficial Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) groupie here at the Hole, I am always glad to pass on information from them.
LiNK-Seoul will be having a meeting in tomorrow:
Please meet at Gong Duk Station (transfer point between line #5 & #6), exit 6 by 4pm to be escorted to Ed’s place. If running late, [...]
ABC, quoting unnamed officials, is reporting that North Korea may be preparing to test a nuclear device.
Yawn.
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How about some of these lines from the Chinese ambassador to the UN in Geneva…
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Thanks go to Japundit for pointing out a very, very interesting story on the general who commanded the Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima.
Be sure to read it.
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Have no fear—Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon says there would “never” be USFK withdrawals as a result of the transfer of wartime operation command:
“There will never be any extra pullout of USFK (due to the wartime transfer),” Ban told a forum hosted by an association of television journalists.
I’m simply going to paraphrase what I read [...]
Hasn’t been picked up in the local press yet, but it appears that the prime suspect in the 1996 killing of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey taught in Korea after he left the United States in 2001, according to an online resume allegedly belonging to him:
Seoul, Korea: I was a classroom teacher of English for [...]
