The two presidential contenders from Hanara?
No, “useless” as in 다세포소녀, the film by Lee Jae-yong. This film is one of the current popular films being currently shown at the New York Asian Film Festival in New York City, June 22 - July 8.
“Daesapo Naughty Girls” was released around the same time as “The Host”, [...]
Well, this’ll shut the kids up. [Yonhap News, Korean]
Angry at his noisy students, a music teacher in Dongducheon last week shut off the classroom air conditioning and turned on an electric heater.
Keep in mind, it was like 30 degrees Celsius outside, and being a music room, there were curtains on all the walls to dampen [...]
Edward looks at the life of late Army Staff Sergent Kyu Hyuk Chay, a Green Beret killed in Afghanistan who appeared in a National Geographic special on the Green Berets in Afghanistan.
If it involves a GI, no incident is apparently too small for the Hankyoreh.
It seems my brother didn’t like the 1974 Sean Connery classic Zardoz. [Pretentious Musings] Oddly enough, I actually remember having seen it on TV.
S-lines, M-lines, V-lines… the Dong-A Ilbo (Korean) explains them all.
A university student on leave found a novel way to make money — by banging massage-parlor prostitutes and then blackmailing them with threats to report them to the cops. [Maeil Business Newspaper, Korean, via Yonhap]
According to the cops, 26-year-old Mr. Bae went into a massage parlor in Seocho-dong in the morning of May 31. After [...]
In an email to CJ Entertainment, retired General John A. Wickham, the USFK commander at the time of the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980, denied US involvement in the bloody suppression of that uprising. [Kyunghyang Shinmun, Korean]
The email was in response to a request made to him by CJ Entertainment to explain the US role [...]
Well, this is a rather interesting ad campaign (probably NSFW). (HT to Japundit)
The big annual expo of all kinds of Tea (but featuring Korea’s excellent green tea of course) is being held at the Indian Hall (1st Floor) of the COEX complex (Samseong Metro Station, Gangnam-gu of Seoul) starting tomorrow (June 27th) and running thru Sunday (July 1st). The “Tea World Festival” promotes Korea’s tea culture(s) both ancient and modern (some striking innovations displayed [...]
To mark the anniversary of the Korean War, YTN ran a piece yesterday on the Battle of Chuncheon, where the ROKA 6th Division held off the KPA 2nd Corps for some three days, forcing North Korea to alter its invasion strategy.
Model Jang Yun-ju — who we like around here — shows off some of the true beauty of Korea. [Ilgan Sports]
I am always fascinated with the way cultures and ideas clash and I think one great example is the Korean magpie. If you have lived any time in Korea you are aware of the Korean magpie - that big brassy bird wearing the suit that is said to be a bearer of good tidings or [...]
In a press conference held at the North Korean embassy in Beijing, a 58-year-old North Korean woman claimed that Japan abducted her to Japan four years ago. Do Chu-ji claims she was kidnapped to Japan via the Japanese consulate in Shenyang in late 2003, and lived in Japan for three years before its multitude of [...]
V for Victory for the Chung family:
A U.S. judge ruled Monday in favor of a South Korean dry cleaner who was sued for $54 million (€40 million) over a missing pair of pants in a case that garnered international attention and renewed calls for litigation reform.
The owners of Custom Cleaners did not violate the city’s [...]
One of the funniest things I find about blogging is connecting seemingly disconnected stories together. Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it does not. However I think many times its worthwhile, since many of us conduct the same exercise subconsciously so as to formulate thoughts on broader issues.
First, lets go back a few months. In [...]
Choe Sang Hun has a well-written narrative of one woman’s wait for her husband who was abducted into North Korea and has not been seen the Korean War. Apparently at least 83,000 Koreans were abducted by the North during the war. Of Sung Kap Soon’s life before her husband disappeared into the north, she remembered:
(my [...]
I think I can agree with Mr. Lapite — Salman Rushdie is a man of unquestionable taste. Has to make living with a fatwa on your head much more bearable.
