September 22, 2007 – 11:11 am
Play nice. Or else I’ll Tase you.
September 22, 2007 – 11:09 am
Over at Gusts of Popular Feeling, Matt posts a not-very-brief history of Korean media reports on foreign English teachers.
September 22, 2007 – 11:07 am
Well, this doesn’t sound good:
Regarding questions as to whether the South Korean president should attend such a performance marred by allegations of child abuse, South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung retorted whether the lengthy training of South Korean children for a play or sports event could be viewed as abuse was uncertain. Regarding North Korea’s [...]
September 22, 2007 – 9:55 am
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse. The S. Korean government is considering financing “inter-Korean cooperation” by cutting the defense budget.
In a memo, the ministry detailed several possible ways to raise funds, saying that the government may need to come up with more financial resources if the summit brings about a number of [...]
September 21, 2007 – 6:19 pm
The student festival is going on at my little college, which includes live performances. I was just putting the final touches on this week’s work when I heard some members of my school’s “rock circle” belting out Bon Jovi’s “You give love a bad name.” In case you were wondering, yes it is actually possible [...]
September 21, 2007 – 2:51 pm
Not that it has anything to do with Korea — other than a shared history as a small nation with a history of uninvited visits from its larger neighbors — but I found this quote by Filip Dewinter, head of the far-right nationalist Flemish Bloc, to be quite humorous:
“We are two different nations, an artificial [...]
September 21, 2007 – 11:11 am
Commenter Sonagi spent some time poking through the NYT archive and managed to find some of the NYT’s earlier pieces on Korea. Really fascinating stuff — be sure to go through her links.
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September 21, 2007 – 9:36 am
Archaeologists will get a crack at Japan’s royal tombs, some of which have recently been opened by the imperial household agency. This could prove fascinating, although depending on what archeologists find, Japanese ultra-nationalists might be somewhat dismayed:
Although the wartime emperor, Hirohito, renounced his divine status after Japan’s defeat in 1945, ultra-nationalists regard his son, the [...]
September 21, 2007 – 9:26 am
According to MBC News, North Korean TV is reporting flooding in parts of N. Korea as a result of 300mm rains bought on by Typhoon Wipha. It is also reporting that “losses are huge as a result of flooding before recovery work from the previous flood was finished”.
So, does this mean that an another summit postponement isn’t too [...]
September 21, 2007 – 9:06 am
In the Korea Times, the Asia Foundation’s Scott Snyder takes a look at the upcoming intra-Korean summit. Here’s a sample:
The ROK government has occasionally gone beyond what the South Korean public has been willing to support or has not been transparent regarding the total bill for economic and cultural exchange.
Roh may offer, but South Korea’s [...]
September 21, 2007 – 9:02 am
Dr. Park Byung-joon, chairman of Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, has donated US$10 million to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the most ever donated from any Korean expatriate. Nice.
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September 20, 2007 – 6:28 pm
Over at kottke.org, Jason Kottke links to some of the highlights of the New York Times archives, all 150 years of it now open to all since the paper abandoned its subscription wall. (HT to Coming Anarchy)
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September 20, 2007 – 5:51 pm
(For folks reading the comment section, the original title of this post was Americans avenge murdered Koreans in Afghanistan.)
From the Chosun:
Mullah Abdullah Jan, the Taliban commander who led the kidnappings of 23 Korean hostages in Afghanistan, was killed in an air strike by U.S. forces…
…According to the Afghan government, at least four other Taliban leaders [...]
September 20, 2007 – 12:45 pm
Shin Jeong-ah has finally checked herself into a hospital.
One wonders what took so long.
The head of the hospital she’s staying at said she’s showing signs of dehydration, probably because she hasn’t been eating properly for the last couple of days.
Immediately after checking in, she apparently said she wanted to eat “Saeukkang” and “Jjanggu,” two popular [...]
September 20, 2007 – 12:15 pm
Today, on the way to work, I saw a Jaguar S-Type with a “Ron Paul: Hope for America” bumper sticker.
September 20, 2007 – 11:29 am
That’s what the guy who put up the following photo says. Considering that they are wearing the same bathing suits, it may be a possibility. Personally, I think they may be part of KJI’s pleasure squad.
Here’s the link to the site where the photo is posted.
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September 20, 2007 – 11:04 am
Ghost Tree has posted a very, very good photo essay from North Korea.
Be sure to take a look at it.
September 20, 2007 – 10:55 am
Korean blogger “Norangbi” has posted some very nice photo essays from Mongolia, Land of the Great Blue Sky.
Just start here and keep hitting “next post” (or the Korean version thereof).
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September 20, 2007 – 9:42 am
The Chungs who ran the laundry involved in the US$54 million missing pants lawsuit have decided to close shop.
The reason for the closing, according to their lawyer, are mental stress resulting from the lawsuit and declining revenues.
Although former judge Pearson never won the case in court, he did win in the end by driving the Chungs out of [...]
September 20, 2007 – 9:22 am
The former “Supreme Scientist” of Korea, Hwang Woo Suk, has fled to Thailand. Why?
The South Korean government banned Hwang from research using human eggs after his claims that he created the first human stem cells through cloning were ruled to be bogus last year…
“Dr. Hwang and his team moved into Thailand to continue with their [...]
