Gave Trans-Pacific Radio’s Seijigiri podcast a listen on the way to Incheon International Airport this evening. Pretty good stuff, especially if you’re into Japan. Give it a listen. (HT to Japundit)
Note to Korea National Police: An Osaka garbageman shows us how to properly deal with dumb-ass foreigners (watch video)
Busan police have sparked controversy by banning people with “excessive tattoos” (i.e., gangsters) from entering area bathhouses.
Korean entertainer Jeong Da-bin was found dead in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s one-room apartment today in an apparent suicide. She was 27. Tragic. She’d even left what, at least in retrospect, seems like a suicide note on her Cyworld blog the day before.
Want to see Lee Young-ae, Go Hyeon-jeong and Yu Deok-hwa in their debut TV ads?
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its first semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of February this Tuesday the 13th, 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/ (includes [...]
The NY Times has an amusing piece on the wonders of Korean-style fried chicken and just what makes it different and tasty. I only wonder at the idea of a “Karoke and fried chicken lounge”.
It seems that on Monday, three of the internet’s thirteen root servers came under attack by a network of zombie computers — Windows machines that had been hijacked from their users by criminals. According to one source most of the computers used in the attack were from “South Korea, China and the United States”.
Apparently [...]
The Hanguk Ilbo talks with Korean fashion model Jang Yun-ju. Now, I’m not really into the “fashion model” type—half-starved as they often are—but Jang is a legitimately beautiful woman with “a body from God.” Some great photos here. Another thing I like about her is that nobody will ever accuse her of cutting up her [...]
From the Yomiuri Shinbun “A former assistant professor of Meiji University’s School of Information and Communication plagiarized 96 percent of a report on copyright submitted to the Institute of Intellectual Property, sources said Monday. The plagiarism is a violation of the Copyright Law.”
The JoongAng Ilbo reports that European immigration officials are being unusually strict with Koreans trying to enter their countries.
Last year, for example, Finnish immigration officials quizzed five Koreans studying in Russia for an hour before letting them across the border. The Finns tested the students’ basic knowledge of Korea. Meanwhile, a Korean studying in Britain [...]
Some photos of the Workers’ Paradise for you North Korea junkies out there. (HT to reader)
You might want to reconsider becoming an exchange student in the United States.
The Chosun Ilbo is pissed that U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will bypass Seoul when he comes to the region to meet with Japanese and Australian leaders to, among other things, relay GW’s appreciation for their support in the War on Terror.
Personally, I think it would have been better for Cheney to come to Korea [...]
The Economist looks at North Korea’s burgeoning intranet, complete apparently with online dating. (HT to Coming Anarchy)
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