I can’t seem to connect with the site, but apparently there is some pretty wonky stuff by Dr. Dr. Sheila Miyoshi Jager on the politics of identity, history, nationalism and the prospects for peace in post-Cold War East Asia at the Army War College. [HT to reader]
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Kind of like open mike night. Only online. On a blog.
A Korean adoptee has been arrested [NoCut News, Korean] in Chicago on charges of brutally murdering his adopted mother [Chicago Tribune].
An angry husband catch your jobless ass in flagrante with his wife and you need a quick cash fix to pay him off? How about arranging your own abduction so your family can pay the ransom? [Lost Nomad]
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What? The ROK Air Force was diverting fighter maintenance money? [Korea Times] Say it ain’t so!
You remember Pvt. Kim, the ROKA soldier accused by USFK of deserting a U.S. unit to avoid getting sent to Iraq? [Marmot's Hole] Well, Yonhap is reporting that he went AWOL from his Korean unit [Yonhap News, Korean] this morning, and is believed to be hiding somewhere near his base. The ROKA is currently [...]
Former prime minister, Lee Hae-chan recently asked the North Koreans to return the USS Pueblo to the United States. One would hope that return of the ship is on the list of preconditions for normalizing US-NK relations.
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Finally! Fellow marmots and other marsupials, we’ve finally got another episode of SeoulGlow for you, and let me tell you, it’s fat. No, not as in phat, but fat. If you don’t get the intense urge to go slay some swine and greedily slurp down its fat, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Well, we are [...]
“Dude, she looks like the monster in ‘Death Note‘.” My wife, commenting on Bai Ling [IMDb] in “She Hate Me.” [IMDb]
Seoul has approved a plan by Korail to put a 620-meter, 150-floor building in Yongsan-gu [Korea Herald].
The JoongAng Ilbo has a write-up [JoongAng Ilbo, English] on the Seoul Foundation’s monthly Korean architecture tours [Seoul Foundation]. The tours are led by Korean architecture expert Cho In-souk and assisted by yours truly.
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In a piece on dinner pancakes, NYT food guy Mark “The Minimalist” Bittman cooks up a Korean pajeon—on video!
Police have arrested one of the GIs wanted for assaulting a 66-year-old cabbie [Lost Nomad] and stealing his taxi… and it turns out he’s an MP! [YTN, Korean, video footage]
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Japanese revisionist scholar Hideaki Kase [Wikipedia] warns in Newsweek that the “harder its neighbors or the United States push it for apologies, the harder Japan may start pushing back.”
Oh, and he says the comfort stations were commercial establishments and U.S. Army records (no doubt records like this [Report No. 49..., English], but probably not ones [...]
It seems America’s missile defense was a little under the weather last summer—just in time for the launch of some North Korean Nodong’s.
Jessica Alba is coming to Korea in June [MyDaily, Korean]. There was much rejoicing.
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