We spend much time here, reading of Korea, but there are the neighbors of Korea, one being China. Here is a very interesting thread on the state of things in China and it is interesting in comparison to what we experience here in Korea.
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its final semi-monthly lecture-meeting of the year this Tuesday December 12th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). All in English, for free and open to the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 and http://www.raskb.com/
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The Imjin War. Thirty-five years of colonization. Yasukuni Shrine. Dokdo.
Now this.
The Kyunghyang Shinmun’s Sports Khan reports that a Japanese adult channel/video company has hired no-name Korean actors to do an erotic version of the popular Korean drama “Dae Jang Geum.”
Jam City, the company in question, plans to release the video series “The Garden of Sensual [...]
Uri Party chief (at least for now) Kim Geun-tae wants us all to know that Seoul shouldn’t bend over for the Americans during now-stalled FTA talks.
In particular, Kim said the goal of negotiations should be to get an FTA agreement that benefits Korea’s national interests, and that there was no need to get dragged around [...]
In response to a recent demand by a North Korean diplomat that the United States remove its nuclear weapons from South Korea and surrounding nations as a condition to Pyongyang dismantling its nuclear weapons, President Roh today said the United States does NOT have nuclear weapons deployed in South Korea.
Of course, that makes little difference, [...]
According to pollster World Public Opinion.org, a solid majority of Americans would support security guarantees and/or increased aid to North Korea in return for Pyongyang abandoning its nuclear program, reports Yonhap:
The respondents were told that North Korea attached certain conditions to giving up its nuclear weapons, two key demands being a security guarantee and increased [...]
At least one high-ranking U.S. official thinks someone on the Korean side might have planted bone fragments in U.S. beef in order to block entry.
Well, at least President Roh is confident that South Korea could defeat even a nuclear-armed North Korea.
The Chosun Ilbo talks with University of Seoul and Dongguk University sociology instructor Gung Seon-yeong, who just happens to have been Miss Korea ‘93.
Honk if these comments make any sense to you. Still wondering why President Roh’s approval rating is at 5.7 percent?
You gotta hand it to the Saudis—those Mercedes limos apparently come with a set of brass balls. Unfortunately, we might wish to take this latest Saudi warning seriously… it seems the Americans aren’t the only ones reviewing their Iraq policies.
Who is the most respected president in Korean history? Why, its Park Chung-hee.
Of course, it’s not like he is facing an A-list of competitors, although I would have thought that KDJ would have done a little better:
Park has never failed to come top in the popular evaluation of past presidents. When Gallup surveyed Korea’s [...]
It is nice to know that President Roh can be a forgiving kind of guy.
After being treated by Kim Jong-il as a geopolitical nonnentity over the past several months years, despite billions of dollars in aid money, Roh has finally decided adjust his policy towards Pyongyang…
…by increasing the aid (Chosun Ilbo):
The government is to spend more on financial [...]
Today is Dec. 7 and the 65th anniversary of the Japanese Empire’s signing its own death warrant with the Imperial Japanese Navy’s preemptive strike attack on Pearl Harbor.
The WaPo ran a piece on reconciliation between the survivors of the attack and the Japanese who participated in it.
The USS Arizona, meanwhile, apparently still has missions to [...]
Condolences go to the family of CNET editor James Kim, whose body was discovered today in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness. He’d been missing for 11 days after he left his family’s stranded car looking for help.
BusinessWeek has a piece on Korean hagwon, or cram schools. Just to give you a basic intro to the state of the industry:
Koreans will endure just about any hardship to make sure they get into a top university. A degree from a leading school isn’t just the key to a good job–it’s a prerequisite [...]
Seriously, do you really care whether Elettra Rossellini likes Korean food and has listened to Rain’s music?
As controversy brews over U.S. beef imports, the Seoul Shinmun reports that U.S. beef is being illegally sold to Korean consumers at U.S. military bases in Korea.
Last weekend, the paper visited a U.S. military golf course on the outskirts of Seoul. Much like the casino found on Yongsan, the place was full of Koreans, with [...]
Did you know: The lovely city of Kandahar, Afghanistan is the proud home of the only Tim Hortons donut shop outside North America?
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