The RAS tour that i’m going to lead to Tap-sa [Pagoda Temple] in Ma-i-san [Horse-Ears Mountains] and the Muju Gucheon-dong Valley (in Deokyusan National Park) has been postponed due to the expected bad weather this Saturday, and in order to include this year’s cherry blossoms. It will now be offered on Sunday, April 8th. [...]
The National Palace Museum [Wikipedia] in Taipei is selling Korean history short [Dong-A Ilbo, Korean] with a chronological table that suggests Korean history begins with the Unified Silla period [Wikipedia].
A reason to switch to Ubuntu [Wikipedia]—because if you’re that big of a gamer, you shouldn’t be playing on a PC anyway [Chimney blog]. Buy an Xbox360 or PS3 instead. Personally, I don’t know. As much as I love my Xbox360, few things beat Battlefield 2 [IGN] or Battlefield 2142 [IGN] on [...]
Choe Chong-dae writes about Incheon’s Gen. MacArthur statue [Korea Times]. The piece is interesting mostly because I had no idea there was a statue of Czar Alexander II [Wikipedia] in Helsinki. Hey, I guess it beats a statue of Linus Torvalds.
Don’t hold back, President Roh—tell us what you really think of ex-Gyeonggi-do governor Sohn Hak-kyu [Korea Times].
Our friends to the north are giving new meaning to the term “ppalli-ppalli culture.”
James Dresnok, the apparent Head Cracker In Charge among American military deserters in North Korea, needed a woman (don’t we all). Like the loving father it is, the Kim regime set out to provide him with one.
Of course, tainting the pure local blood was right out, so a creative solution was needed. The answer was to let him [...]
Here is a short must read on North Korea and highly enriched uranium (Financial Times):
Discussions with former senior US government officials indicate that the intelligence community was unanimous in its 2002 assessment that North Korea had an active programme to acquire materials for enriching sufficient uranium to develop weapons. Where disagreements existed, they were over the [...]
OK, I think we can dispense with the meaningless debates about “narrow and broad definitions of coercion” now.
The Hankyoreh (English), Chosun Ilbo (Korean) and several other papers ran a transcript of some of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s comments made 10 years ago on the subject of comfort women:
Abe’s statements made ten years ago on [...]
VANK engaging in self-parody [Korea Times]. HT to Lost Nomad.
A 38-year-old office worker got a rude introduction to the perils of blogging when he posted about his pot-smoking experience in the Netherlands on his blog [Segye Ilbo, Korean].
You guessed it—the police busted him.
The office worker, identified only as Mr. A, was with two colleagues on a seven-day, six-night business trip to the Netherlands in [...]
If you want to see real citizen journalism, check out Middle East Journal by Michael J. Totten. On the other hand, fair and balanced it ain’t. His latest piece is on the rapid development in the Iraqi north (AKA: Kurdistan).
Iraqi Kurdistan is technically occupied by a foreign power, but this occupation surely ranks among one of [...]
If you want to see Kim Yun-jin in fishnets and “Lee Hyo-ree” shorts (and who doesn’t), click here.
Update: The Chosun is now all over the Sohn split from the GNP. It has a basic account of the divorce (already covered in the original post) and (naturally) slams him in an editorial, but the most interesting piece is a quick poll they did:
Sohn’s approval rating as a presidential hopeful rose to 8.2 percent, from 5.9 [...]
Pundits and politicians alike have long seen the six-party talks as more than just a chance to trade bombs and non-aggression pacts. Many hope that these negotiations could evolve into the framework for an East Asian economic and security forum, with the potential to resolve some of the region’s lingering 20th century woes. [...]
Cool—a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero in U.S. Navy colors [Wikipedia].
(This is a topic I wish I would have posted on two weeks ago. It would have made me look smart.)
For a while now, the front runners for the Grand National Party’s presidential nomination have been fighting over procedures.
Front runner Lee Myung-bak, who leads most polls by a wide margin, wanted to expand the pool of participants to [...]
What do we want? Our money [AP]! When do we want it? Now!
What? You mean the Japanese weren’t the only ones abusing POWs in the Pacific War [Ampontan]?
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