I was just playing with the power of the headline. The Kia Cee’d actually did very well, coming in fourth place in `Car of the Year’ awards done by a group of European journalists, after the Fiat 500, the Mazda 2 and the Ford Mondeo.
Not too shabby.
It even won its group (from Korea’s English-language newspaper of record):
Approved by 58 [...]
No, not the Terminator. Park Jin-young, the music producer with the “Midas Touch” has released his latest album and staged a “comeback”.
Top Korean music producer Park Jin-young has made a successful comeback on major television shows as a singer with his newly released album.
Park appeared on the 2007 Mnet KM Music Festival on the cable [...]
Right on the heels of the recent Chinese and Japanese moon probe launches, S. Korea is also planning to get into the game.
The Ministry of Science and Technology said Tuesday that it plans to send an unmanned probe to orbit the Moon in 2020 and to land another on its surface in 2025.
According to the [...]
The Kim Kyung-jun case is not really well chronicled here. I have only half paid attention to it since it suspiciously looks like a smear campaign, and because, let’s face it, “corruption” stories in Korean newspapers might as well be weather reports (morning light extortion and influence peddling, leading to bribes and price fixing in [...]
Sat-Sun Nov 24-25th: Inner Seorak and South Sorak Rhapsody Tour — A weekend spent enjoying the grand natural beauty of the less-visited northwestern area of South Korea’s greatest national park, Seorak-san. On Saturday we’ll walk up a long beautiful Inner Seorak valley to the legendary Baekdam-sa (Hundred Pools Temple) and admire the scenic forests, steams [...]
Two cases were reported during the weekend.
On Saturday, two soldiers were caught after they allegedly stole a 50cc motorcycle. During questioning, they denied that they were trying to steal the bike and stated that they “only wanted to take it for a spin.”
At a later time, six soldiers were caught and turned over to the [...]
The following according to Korea Times. Well, I guess we can all breathe a sigh of relief that Paris Hilton didn’t make the Top 10.
Just when you thought it was fading away. A Seoul Court has removed the “degree scammer” Shin Jeong-ah from a debt workout program after discovering that she had lied about her financial status.
The Seoul Central District Court said Sunday that it has decided to annul the personal workout program for the former Dongguk University art [...]
It looks like Korea’s draft Anti-Discrimination Act was stopped just in time — apparently the new law was to make homosexuality mandatory, as well as prohibit discrimination based on nationality.
It’s the rumba, Korean style. On the other hand, I don’t think anyone would want to see my fat hairy butt in one of those outfits any time soon.
I am in America now. As I went through immigration in Atlanta, I get this business:
Q: Are you coming from Seoul?A: yesQ: Is this trip business or pleasure?A: My father died and I’m here for his funeralQ: What do you do in Korea?A: Blah, blah, blahQ: Where does your father live?A: I don’t know. Heaven [...]
Here is the second part of the Wreck of the German schooner, Chusan.
History has often depicted Korea’s shores as inhospitable to wrecked sailors, but, in fact, the Koreans often treated the sailors fairly well and generally returned them to China or Japan where they often met with misfortune. The recovery of the Chusan is an [...]
According to the Korea Herald, a Seoul Court has convicted 14 S. Koreans of illegaly exporting weapons related technology to Myanmar.
The Seoul Central District Court fined Lee Tae-yong, a former head of Daewoo International Corp., 50 million won ($54,550) for violating laws on exports and technology leaks, according to court official Park Hyun-ju. Ten other businessmen [...]
The Herald Saengsaeng News has a piece on the rise of a new breed of modernized hanok homes. Cool stuff, indeed.
Park Chul has turned over to the police a video showing the Italian chef “G” and Ok together doing “extremely friendly activity” and “G”, “almost naked.”
The video was shot through the window of “G” ’s apartment. Park claims that it is “irrefutable proof” of Ok’s adultery and some in the media are claiming that the video is a “time [...]
Lee Hoi-chang enjoyed his post annoucement bump in the polls last week. Now the struggle to overtake Lee Myung-bak really begins.
Here is this week’s happy little poll from Realmeter:
Lee Myung-bak 39.1% (up 3.1% from last week)
Lee Hoi-chang 21.0% (down 3.8%)
Chung Dong-young 11.8% (down 4.1%)
Moon Kook-hyun 7.1% (up 2.5%)
Kwon Young-ghil 2.8% (up 1.4%)
Rhee In-jae 2.8% (up 1.7%)
Others/Undecided [...]
The Kyunghyang Shinmun reports that according to OECD statistics, Korea has been bested by Japan when it comes to broadband download speeds and broadband connection price.
