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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Korean, Sparkling Podcast
April 17, 2007 – 5:11 am
Listen to the Metropolitician give a sparkling podcast from last week’s rollout of “Korea, Sparkling” at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club and get an explanation of the brand straight (well, almost) from the horse’s mouth.
OhMy Bundeswehr
April 16, 2007 – 8:55 pm
Well, if it makes Imus feel any better, perhaps he can get a job doing training films for the Bundeswehr [BBC]. See Youtube video here.
Another English teacher busted for forged documents
April 16, 2007 – 8:25 pm
A Canadian is under investigation for teaching at a university on forged documents [Lost Nomad].
Shinzo Abe, the Ahmadinejad of the East?
April 16, 2007 – 5:16 pm
OK, I happened to be disappointed with Abe’s handling of the comfort women issue, but Jesus, someone is taking it a bit far, no? [Korea Times] Especially with the condemnations the Japanese people:
In the decades prior to WWII, the Japanese people watched as their Emperor and military began a campaign of mass killing and conquest [...]
Next week’s by-elections: Uri’s new limited strategy
April 16, 2007 – 4:49 pm
The JoongAng Daily has a poll out on next week’s three by-elections and they are looking pretty interesting.
The most watched race is in Daejeon:
In Daejeon city, Sim Dae-pyung, founder of the People First Party, had 33.1 percent of the pollees’ support, while the Grand National candidate, Lee Jae-sun, had 31.4 percent.
As you may recall, the [...]
Hyeon-yeong on Maxim
April 16, 2007 – 3:15 pm
Now, I would have never figured Hyeon Yeong (i.e., the one with the voice) as a Maxim Korea cover girl. Yet she was, apparently. And not a bad one, I must admit.
Catholic churches of Korea: a preview
April 16, 2007 – 7:29 am
I have a major post in the works for tonight. In the meantime, here’s a preview of the photos I shot this weekend visiting some of Korea’s old Catholic churches:
Gupodong Catholic Church in Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do. Built in 1922 (1,000px version here)
Gamgok Catholic Church, Gamgok-myeon, Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do. Built in 1930. (1,200px version here)
Yakhyeon [...]
Ban the Advertisers?
April 16, 2007 – 7:28 am
São Paulo has passed a “Clean City” law that will ban outdoor advertising — billboards, neon signs and electronic panels. I wonder what a future Seoul would look like if the city banned even half of the eye-sore up at this moment?
An Unfortunate Affair
April 15, 2007 – 7:53 pm
The taxi driver that set himself on fire to protest against the Korea/America FTA has died of his burns. I only wish he had sought a better means to protest since his death helps no one.
Korean War massacres revisited
April 14, 2007 – 8:28 am
This deserves a much larger post, but I’m about to head to the countryside, so a short link it will be for now—thanks to recent document releases, there’s a lot of talk now about U.S. massacres of refugees during the Korean War.
Marmot’s Open Thread #4
April 14, 2007 – 7:25 am
Speak now or forever hold your peace. Or at least until next weekend.
Thousands of Korean POWs brought to USSR: report
April 13, 2007 – 1:53 pm
This probably doesn’t come as a surprise , but a declassified U.S. report from 1993 says that thousands of South Korean POWs captured during the Korean War were sent to the Soviet Union [Chosun Ilbo, English] and never repatriated:
According to the report, the former North Korean officer Kan San Kho stated in November 1992 that [...]
Baekbeom bill?
April 13, 2007 – 11:48 am
There’s an online signature campaign [Kim Gu Foundation] going on to put independence activist Kim Gu [Wikipedia] on the new high-denomination bills to be printed from late 2008.
The Bank of Korea isn’t talking about who might grace its new bills [Maeil Business News, Korean], which are to include 50,000 won and 100,000 won notes. [...]
It’s the late Joseon era all over again
April 13, 2007 – 9:36 am
The Chosun Ilbo warns—perhaps not entirely without reason—that Beijing is turning North Korea into a Chinese province [Chosun Ilbo, English]. (HT to Lost Nomad)
Meet the new yes man, same as the old yes man
April 13, 2007 – 9:00 am
The Hanky reports that North Korea has a new premier. In equally significant news, a farmer in Yecheon County has grown the biggest mu in North Gyeongsang Province this year.
Korea’s prettiest universities
April 12, 2007 – 11:15 pm
So, what’s Korea’s prettiest university campus? Personally, I dig Keimyung University’s very American-style main hall. Very distinctive.
Kurt Vonnegut, RIP
April 12, 2007 – 4:45 pm
Kurt Vonnegut died last several hours ago. Vonnegut was the famous author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle.
