Wanna know what Rep. Henry Hyde is gonna ask President Roh? Are you a Cheong Wa Dae official preparing for the meeting? Well, head on over to The Korea Liberator and find out.
Oh, and I see Rep. Hyde paid a visit to Big Mac this morning. As far as I know, he didn’t [...]
Hey, at least General Bell supports the alliance:
“We will remain in Korea as a reliable ally as long as we are welcome and wanted,” Gen. Burwell Bell said in the message.
“USFK is a steadfast partner with the ROK military as guardians of the Korean democracy. We will fight alongside our ally to defend this nation,” [...]
If anyone is in Itaewon in the early afternoon tomorrow (Saturday) and spot some young folks passing out leaflets and selling T-shirts, go ahead and buy one.
They are with the local chapter of LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) and are raising funds for their worthy organization.
Korea’s Paper of Record gives male readers some helpful hints as to how to tell if your woman’s chest puppies have been surgically altered. And here’s something you may not have known:
Plastic surgery clinic BARAM in Gangnam, Seoul says the size of breast implants has doubled from 135 cc on average in 1994 to [...]
Seoul police have busted two North Korean defectors for selling high-priced, illegally manufactured sexual stimulants they falsely claimed kept North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s Taepodong fully fueled.
According to police, the husband-wife team began illegally producing three kinds of health supplements last year. They produced the goodies by mixing herbal medicines with tadalafil, the active [...]
Citing a September 2005 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade report, the Hankyoreh Shinmun is reporting that Korea turned down last year an FTA offer from China that, among other things, would have included Chinese concessions on the sensitive agricultural market.
Beijing made the offer in May of last year. In July of the same [...]
Update: I just sent out an invitation for the last spot but the request for substitutes is still on.
Original post: We only have one spot left for the IKK Football League’s first season. Here is the current line-up:
SHILLA: Mungyeong Fighting Yangbans, Busan Power Outage, 4-7 Debate, Wonju Wobblers
BAEKCHE: BuPyeong Silverbacks, Bupyung-Sanggok Bulgogi, Yeosu Crack Addicts
GOGURYEO: Oh [...]
UPDATED: President Roh speaks! You can read two Yonhap reports on President Roh’s thoughts on the operational command transfer issue—here’s one, and here’s the other. Here are the money shots:
“South Korea is the only country which does not have wartime operational control of its troops in the world,” Roh said in an interview with Yonhap [...]
One of the advantages of having multiple bloggers working together is that you are more likely to catch everything of interest.
So how did we miss this last week:
A 23-year-old Korean traditional harp player with dark brows and lovely dimples was chosen as Miss Korea 2006 last night.
Lee Honey (Ha-nui), a graduate student of Korean traditional [...]
Here are some of the photos I took at Cheongpung Cultural Properties Complex and Chungju Lake. Enjoy.
Finally, Seoul is ignoring officials visiting shrines dedicated to war criminals who have inflicted untold suffering on the Korean people.
Unfortunately, the shrines in question are in North Korea, and the officials are from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).
According to the Chosun Ilbo, the leadership of the KCTU visited all three of North Korea’s [...]
All in all, this actually isn’t a bad blog (although it hasn’t been updated in a month), and I appreciate innocent T&A (frequently post/link to it here), but one wonders about the wisdom of posting something like this in your profile in the post-English Spectrum age:
Have also studied Korean traditional percussion instruments and I hold [...]
Bruce Klingner can always be counted on for some interesting pieces and he doesn’t disappoint in his latest over at AsiaTimes. His main points (sent via email):
-Chinese and Russian acquiescence to stronger language in UN Resolution 1695 left Seoul nearly as isolated as Pyongyang.
-Washington and Tokyo have regained the initiative and will be able to [...]
Speaking with Japan’s Nikkei Shimbun, Korean Prime Minister Han Myung-sook criticized visits by Japanese high officials to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.
She said the historical understanding of some Japanese politicians, who she accused of trying to legitimize Japan’s past colonization of Korea, served as a hinderance in the Korea-Japan relationship.
She said the two countries need to [...]
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