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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Africans should learn from Korea: Ban Ki-moon
January 31, 2007 – 10:27 am
Mr. General-Secretary, I’m as big a fan of lecturing other countries as the next guy, and I’m sure the AU appreciated you lecturing them as to why Africa should be more like Korea, but don’t you think that kind of material should be left to the Korean Foreign Ministry now?
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Foreign Ministry cautions USFK commander
January 31, 2007 – 10:13 am
As my mom likes to say, this takes a set of brass balls: the Foreign Ministry has apparently warned USFK commander Gen. Burwell Bell against making “undiplomatic” remarks such as the ones he issued earlier this month in regards to possible delays in moving the U.S. garrison in Yongsan to Pyeongtaek:
“The comment (made by Gen. [...]
Be careful of what you say…
January 31, 2007 – 9:48 am
Korean bloggers are learning that speaking your mind can have consequences.
The Bloggies
January 31, 2007 – 9:26 am
The nominations for the 2007 Weblog Awards are up—be sure to check them out. Lots of good stuff.
Blog back to normal
January 31, 2007 – 3:33 am
I’ve finally moved to a dedicated server.
Well, a virtual one at least. Ye Olde Blog is now hosted at Media Temple, which seems to come recommended by a number of respected bloggers. If it’s good enough for Starbucks and Binary Bonsai, it’s good enough for me.
BTW, my old host—Bluehost—was nothing but helpful, and [...]
SeoulGlow video podcast OUT!
January 30, 2007 – 5:12 pm
Michael Hurt, the man behind Scribblings of the Metropolitician, has produced the first of episode of SeoulGlow, his new video podcast. SeoulGlow has some real potential, and Michael is looking for feedback, show ideas and suggestions. Be sure to check it out episode one, and if you’ve got iTunes, subscribe.
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Gotcha, you spamming bastards!
January 30, 2007 – 2:24 pm
In a significant victory in the War on Spam, Korean police have nabbed two programmers—one 21 and the other 27—wanted for sending out some 1.6 billion spam mails between September and December of last year. They are also accused of selling the personal information collected during their spam campaigns to debt companies for some 100 [...]
Good wings, but something’s missing
January 30, 2007 – 1:59 am
ZenKimchi goes to Hooters and apparently likes it. I don’t know, but it seems something’s missing. Perhaps it’s the hooters.
When Hanryu meets Xbox360
January 30, 2007 – 1:49 am
If Wayne, the main characher of Capcom’s well-reviewed Xbox 360 game “Lost Planet” looks familiar, he should—he’s modeled on Korean heartthrob and “Korean Wave” star Lee Byung-hun.
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Film reviews by the Marmot’s brother
January 30, 2007 – 1:41 am
My brother recently started his own website on film, “Pretentious Musings.” There’s lot of good, intelligent stuff posted up there, so please, check it out. He’d appreciate any feedback you might be willing to provide.
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Hanchongnyeon leader on North Korea
January 30, 2007 – 1:24 am
The Daily NK spoke with 24-year old Ryu Seon-min, the student body president of Jeonnam National University and the chairman of the preparatory committee of Hanchongnyeon, the Korea Federation of University Student Councils.
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t waste time translating Hanchongnyeon’s crap, but this interview was so over-the-top it was worth translating for the entertainment value alone. [...]
Memorial Service / Meeting for Zo Za-yong Tuesday Eve
January 30, 2007 – 1:13 am
Sorry to post this so late, but there were technical blocks all weekend… There will be a Memorial Ceremony Dr. Zo Za-yong, the great champion of Korean folkways & folk-art, with meeting of his friends, his students and those who admire and continue his legacy, at the Gahoe Folk-Art Museum in northern downtown Seoul (Bukchon area, north [...]
One very angry GI
January 30, 2007 – 12:33 am
The GI who “got his ass beat by the KNP” (or so he claims to be—some think otherwise) when he paid a visit to the police station in Itaewon to protest the arrest of his battle buddies speaks in the comment section, and he’s not a happy camper.
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(MUST SEE) U.S. defector to NK on CBS
January 29, 2007 – 11:25 pm
You’ve probably already seen it, but man, if you haven’t, here’s the CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Joe Dresnok, the former U.S. soldier who defected to the Workers Paradise in 1962. Since moving to the North, he’s been keeping himself busy teaching English, translating and portraying evil Americans in movies (or, in other words, [...]
Yum… dirt
January 29, 2007 – 11:01 pm
Well, Mongolia has to get into the Guinness Book somehow. And besides, it can’t be as bad as aruul.
Note to co-writers
January 29, 2007 – 6:22 pm
Andy will be on vacation for the next four weeks. With the ongoing Uri break-up and the Park-Lee fight in the GNP, there is plenty of cool political stuff to cover. I hope that one or two co-writers can take up some of the slack in the S. Korean Politics category.
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All hail the might of Scott Silvers!
January 29, 2007 – 6:15 pm
With the Super Bowl coming up, this seems like a good time to officially announce the winner of the first season of the Insular Korean Cluster Football League.
This year’s winner was the BuPyeong Silverbacks, managed by Scott Silvers. They Defeated the Itaewon Sweetlife to win Kimchi Bowl I and take home the Hines Ward Trophy.
The [...]
More on Princeton and Asians
January 29, 2007 – 5:37 pm
I found a little background on Princeton parody that Rob briefly mentioned recently.
Here is an interesting little post by a law teacher back in the States. Her basic argument seems to be that taking race into consideration is good if it means that you are taking places away from non-Hispanic whites and giving it to blacks and Hispanics but bad if [...]
