Suwat said Karr arrived in Bangkok on June 6 from Malaysia to look for a teaching job. It was not clear whether he had gotten a job, the police officer said.
At least JonBenet’s confessed killer wasn’t coming to Korea to teach. Sheesh, we’d never hear the end of THAT, now would we!
The electric fan has claimed yet another victim, this time in Gwangju. A 48-year-old man found his 40-year-old wife dead at their home when he returned home from work. Police are still trying to determine the cause of death, but noting how the fan was turned on at the scene, they believe she [...]
In Korea, there is a saying that goes “the truth is in the den-jung”, den-jung being fermented bean paste. The idea is that quality can not be faked — it is or it isn’t. Though I like den-jung, I also like good coffee and the best fresh roasted coffee in Korea is not [...]
Courtesy the Asahi Shimbun:
TSURUOKA, Yamagata Prefecture–Police investigating suspected arson that destroyed the family home of former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Koichi Kato said Tuesday’s attack was committed by a rightist apparently angered at Kato’s remarks on the Yasukuni Shrine issue.
A 65-year-old man found collapsed on the premises apparently tried to attempt suicide by ritual disembowelment.
(HT [...]
Now for something completely different, listen to late Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto telling the UN Security Council to go fuck themselves after the council voted to support Bengali independence in 1971.
OK, if you have anything to say about today’s hoops action, say it here.
For what it’s worth, I watched the game, and two things stood out. Firstly, the Korean national team (and their fans) seemed to take the thrashing in good humor. I’m pretty sure they were just happy to get the chance [...]
Some fine lefty propaganda on the Camp Humphreys expansion (HT to Lost Nomad).
On a side note, I find joint action between anti-American activists and illegal migrants quite amusing.
Need a new mouse pad? How about this:
For more images of racing girl Chae Young, flip through this blog’s 8-page “Chae Young” photo archive. No need to thank me. Just doing my duty as a conscientious blogger.
(HT to reader)
In his Liberation Day address, President Roh called on Japan to prove just how apologetic it is through substantive action:
“A long time has passed since the end of World War II and it may be unwarranted to raise an issue with the amendment itself. Japan should wholeheartedly reflect upon their actions in the past, act [...]
I just want to wish any Koreans reading this blog a happy Liberation Day.
Here are some choice Liberation Day links:
The Chosun Ilbo wants us to get with the real spirit of August 15.
Seoul City Hall is decked out for the occasion.
Park Geun-hye is having a happy August 15 since she is still up in the polls.
Leftists [...]
Over the weekend, my friend Annie Shapiro and I went to an art & peace “event” at the park in Hongdae. I was pleasantly surprised. Summing up the extremely small group of peace loving folks, I realized this was my scene. It was all very kooky.
A young lady was doing some surprisingly good old-school-type rapping [...]
I’d like to think this is simply a form of creative financing:
The government will start an investigation on Friday to confiscate assets of descendants who received financial benefits from 400 pro-Japanese activities in the early 20th century.
It marks the first time in 57 years that the government has taken action against Korean citizens who cooperated [...]
Don’t usually post on Middle Eastern affairs unless they involve Korea, but was watching some of Scottish MP George Galloway’s better interviews over at Coming Anarchy. Particularly liked the “Arab world’s beautiful daughters, Jerusalem and Baghdad, in the hands of foreigners” analogy. Very colorful imagery. And speaking of the Arab world’s beautiful daughters, the anchor [...]
This must be seen. It makes living in a commie dictatorship almost worthwhile.
via Coming Anarchy, hat tip to the Korean Liberator
I am wrong as often as not when I venture a prediction. So, I am always happy to point out when I am right. When Roh suspended rice shipments to North Korea in the wake of its missile tests, I said this in a comment at Oranckay’s blog:
Suspending rice shipments (which can just as quickly [...]
Why can’t we get stuff like this in the New York Times?
A university student hanged himself in full view of his girlfriend abroad, to whom he had been chatting online via webcam link….
Kim’s girlfriend, a 27-year-old identified as Yang who was studying in the U.K., informed a friend living in Seoul, who in turn called [...]
Aiden Foster-Carter has an op-ed in the New York Times on North Korea, director Bong Joon-ho’s “The Host” and South Korean threat perception. Read it in its entirety. Here’s just a sample:
Harmless fiction? Not quite. The director, Bong Joon-ho, says hebased it on an incident in 2000 when a mortician with the United [...]
MBC TV reports that the U.S. FBI has busted a ring—apparently led by a 36-year-old Korean American—that was smuggling Asian women into the United States to work in Portland houses of ill-repute. The women, who came from 10 Asian countries including Korea, China and Vietnam, paid the smugglers 50,000 U.S. dollars to bring them to [...]
Frank talk from Rep. Hyde (HT to Lost Nomad):
[A]sked whether he thought the Roh administration was capitalizing on anti-U.S. sentiment, the lawmaker warned that in the long term, feeding on anti-U.S. sentiment could backfire. “Some politicians find anti-Americanism profitable for them until they get into real trouble, then they come to us for money or [...]
Dr. Lankov gives English-speaking readers a taste of “progressive” South Korean discourse about the United States and North Korea in his latest column in the Asia Times. This is a MUST READ by any definition of the word:
One only has to read Korean to discover that Seoul bookshops are well stocked with books whose [...]
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