Korea’s silent killer strikes again.
YTN (Korean) reports that a 48-year-old man was found dead on the floor of his rental room in Daegu in the early morning hours Wednesday.
His colleague who found the body noted the electric fan was running.
Police are still examining the exact cause of death, but they believe that in the absence [...]
First of all, let me introduce myself. I am a Korean who has spent his childhood(12 years) in Kuwait. During my time in Kuwait, I went to an American School and since there weren’t many Korean kids in our school, most of my friends were American, European, and Arab. As a result of the Iraqi [...]
One harabeoji you wouldn’t want to get into a bar fight with:
The Korea Tourism Organization warns that Korea may be losing its tourist appeal. From the Korea Times:
A survey showed that 44.4 percent of foreigners visited Korea for travel and 42.7 percent came for business in 2003.
The ratio, however, was reversed in 2005. About 42.3 percent of visitors were tourists and 43.7 percent were businesspeople, [...]
A South Korean tourist has filed a legal complaint against a monkey that stole his glasses during the tourists vacation. Cheeky monkey . . .
A sure sign of summer, even during monsoon — Jaws — the popsicle.
Orascom Construction Industries, a massive Egypt-based company that is 60 percent family owned, has decided to invest US$115 million to buy 50 percent of the Sangwon Cement Complex in North Korea’s North Pyongan Province, according to the WSJ, KCNA, and an Orascom press release [pdf]. Sangwon Cement reportedly began production in 1989 and is therefore [...]
I got an email from a trusted reader today I beg you to read:
I’m passing along the following message in case you should see fit to publicize this request on your blog. It comes on behalf of Sonia Lee, a 2006 graduate of Princeton University, who has an advanced case of acute leukemia. After [...]
Speaking of forged degrees, Dongguk assistant professor Shin Jeong-ah claims that accusations that she forged her degree from Yale are LIES, ALL LIES! [Munhwa Ilbo, Korean] She flew to the US today to discuss with lawyers and Yale a legal response to the “conspiracy” against her, even as the Gwanju Biennale Committee prepares to sue [...]
A Canadian English teacher convicted of teaching with a fake degree has been sentenced to 6 months in the sin bin. [Korea Times]
Residents of Korea have probably noticed that Koreans aren’t big on “classic cars,” so to speak. The Busan Ilbo reports today that for the filming of “Remember 5.18,” producers actually had to re-import five Hyundai Ponies from Egypt, where they’re still used as taxis.
The Hyundai Pony, Hyundai’s first domestically designed model, first hit local markets [...]
Spent Saturday and Sunday in Buyeo, the last capital of the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje.
As most of the photos are for magazine use, I won’t be posting them. Apologies.
Goran-sa, which overlooks the Baengma River just behind the former Baekje garden/fortress/wartime palace of Buso Fortress, is one of my favorite places in all Korea (admittedly, [...]
Last week the wife and I spent four excellent days of traveling around remote Yeongdeok County (center of the east coast of North Gyeongsang Province, north of Pohang City). My first time to ever explore this area, and I shouldn’t have waited so long. It features fine beaches (Daejin is the biggest) and [...]
WJK must be in his element today.
More photos here.
Members of civic groups opposed to the sale of U.S. beef throw cow manure inside the Lotte Mart Sangmu branch in Gwangju yesterday. Newsis, which transmitted the photo, blurred their faces. Lotte Mart introduced U.S. beef yesterday, the first time a nationwide supermarket has sold it in more than three years. [NEWSIS]
Read the story at [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKILQPBcVTI
Something nice for Robert and all of Seoul. (Check out the gangbae at the end of the video)
Remember children, play nice.
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Dobermans, lightening and a spooky castle? It’s Windows and it’s evil.
