February 28, 2007 – 5:45 pm
I know you’re all probably quite sick of looking at old photos. Tough. Here are some more photos from the 20s and 30s—some of them are really good:
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If you search around the blog linked above, you’ll find some rare photos of the East Sea [...]
February 28, 2007 – 3:17 pm
The Seoul Shinmun recoils in horror as some Korean netizens target (in Korean) independence activist Yun Bong-gil, calling him a “terrorist”:
Malicious comments by netizens have gone past the danger level and are reaching an extreme. The arrow of malicious comments, recently fired at popular entertainers, have now reached such a serious state that they’re [...]
February 28, 2007 – 12:36 pm
Sgt. Yoon Jang-ho, the Korean soldier killed in Afghanistan yesterday, actually returned to Korea in May 2005 to fulfill his mandatory military duty (in Korean) after spending 11 years in the United States. He volunteered for service in Afghanistan in June of that year.
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February 28, 2007 – 10:38 am
Some Seoul asthmatics are fed up with the poor air of their environs. Led by the Seoul Air Pollution Litigation Group, the 22 plaintiffs will be looking to cash in to the tune of 30 million won per plaintiff, to be collected
from the central government and Seoul metropolitan government for “not fulfilling their responsibility [...]
February 28, 2007 – 12:59 am
Ban Ki Moon may have landed the UN’s top spot, but most of Korea’s homegrown aspirants to IR careers can’t even get their foot in the door at the Asian Development Bank. This from a recent report on the sorry state of the country’s nine graduate programs in international affairs, assessed one decade after [...]
February 28, 2007 – 12:48 am
27-year-old Sgt. Yoon Jang-ho, a soldier with a Korean engineering unit in Afghanistan, was killed today during the suicide bombing attack on Bagram Air Base (in Korean).
Yoon was the first military fatality Korea has suffered in the War on Terror. Korea has some 200 engineers and medics based at Bagram.
Condolences go to the young [...]
February 27, 2007 – 11:44 pm
Congratulations, Prof. Rhie—not only have you made CNN, you’ve done so being a tool:
The author of a best-selling comic book series intended to teach children about other countries said Monday he would change a chapter on Jews that has been called anti-Semitic and similar to Nazi propaganda.
Rhie Won-bok maintained, however, that his depiction of Jewish [...]
February 27, 2007 – 10:34 pm
Spent Sunday walking around Myeongdong doing what I like to do best—taking photos of early modern architecture. The Myeongdong area is one of the best places in Seoul for this sort of thing, home as it were to such priceless examples of colonial-era architecture as the Bank of Korea Museum, the former headquarters of [...]
February 27, 2007 – 4:16 pm
A Korean netizen traveling in Japan snapped these photos of an apparently Japanese-owned De Lorean DMC-12, which just so happened to be my favorite car since I was a kid.
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February 26, 2007 – 11:27 pm
Soyeon’s leaving for Russia on Wednesday, so we just wanted to give her a happy sendoff post and also a unique chance for you all to give some feedback, since she’s been peeping in on this site.
Although Soyeon meant to take the time to write this in English, she has been wrapping things up at [...]
February 26, 2007 – 6:23 pm
Some very beautiful paintings by artist “Hyeonnim” Jeong Seung-seop.
February 26, 2007 – 5:07 pm
AP reports that newly declassified CIA documents reveal efforts by the CIA to recruit known Japanese war criminals in the immediate post-war years. OK, the fact that the CIA recruited Japanese war criminals after the war should probably shock nobody, but the story is still fascinating to read.
(HT to Japundit)
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February 26, 2007 – 4:50 pm
It seems Korean-American groups—or at least one—plan to protest against the publisher (HT to reader) of Rhie Won-bok’s comic book “Far Country, Neighbor Country” for its anti-Semitic content:
“I don’t have words to describe the outrage I feel,” said Yohngsohk Choe, co-chairman of the Korean American Patriotic Action Movement in the USA.
The group met Friday with [...]
February 26, 2007 – 4:09 pm
I am back from my vacation in the States and will be back to posting as soon as I can get three weeks of backlogged work done.
I actually did a pretty good job of not following Korean news while I was out of the country. They only thing I know is:
The Six Party Talks have [...]
February 26, 2007 – 3:57 pm
Not Korea related in the least, but I know some people here would get a chuckle from this paragraph from an AP story on CNN “[Al] Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004 on a ticket of racial justice, said he met Thurmond only once in 1991 when he visited Washington, D.C., with the late [...]
February 26, 2007 – 4:12 am
The next installment of the “Spacegirl” series – as some Korean folks around me like to affectionately call it – is served. To those of you who asked, I did my best to consolidate the subtitles into longer sentences, instead of breaking them into smaller chunks that keep you reading more than watching.
Soyeon changes a [...]
February 25, 2007 – 6:23 pm
Two articles that i happened to read on the same day interested me enough to post about: they are about current trends in Korean education, but in kind of opposite directions; both are on topics we’ve discussed here before.
The first one shows the globalization project here making some progress, with increased international-level university education with [...]
February 24, 2007 – 11:55 pm
I really don’t know what to think of this—Washington has agreed to transfer wartime operational command over South Korean troops to Seoul by 2012.
Washington had been pushing to transfer operational command by 2010.
The Americans also reaffirmed that the transfer of wartime command would not compromise plans to dispatch massive U.S. reinforcements to the Korean Peninsula [...]
February 24, 2007 – 10:31 pm
Gravatars and commenter flags are back by popular demand.
February 23, 2007 – 5:18 pm
The New York Times ran a fairly long article yesterday on the phenomena of Korean men importing foreign wives wholesale, and the changes going on in that business. It focuses on the Vietnamese brides, who are now second in number only to China and might in the future become number one. Filipinas no longer so much [...]
