You’ll be happy to learn that the Congressional Research Service has removed Korea from a report listing major sex tourism destinations in Asia. No word yet on whether the CRS has apologized to Congressmen who arranged for junkets to Korea after reading the erroneous report.
As GI Korea says, this is the weirdest defense in a rape case I’ve ever heard.
Upcoming Royal Asiatic Society–Korea activities of interest to M-holers:
Tonight!! Dr. Lee Yomee (sports-sociology prof at State University of New York, currently Fulbright Scholar at Yonsei Univ) will give the second RAS Lecture of the year, on one of the M-Holer’s favorite subjects: “Hines Ward –His Impact on Racial Attitude among Koreans”. She will take a fascinating scholarly look at what [...]
Remember, play nice.
PS: Bobby Fischer is dead.
The Joongang is reporting that the Japanese government had made detailed maps of Dodko(pic below), and that the Korean government isn’t doing anything about the matter.
According to the Joongnag, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport used the ALOS(Advanced Land Observation Satellite) and American satellite data to survey Dokdo and produce detailed 1/25,000 scale maps of [...]
Couldn’t help but throw this up. It seems that Dutch thieves have been taking a more conservative, albeit fool-hearted, approach to swiping road vehicles as of late. Essentially, the short article merely sheds a little light on a few figures and states that a large percentage of the nabbings occured in Amsterdam (go figure)… but scroll down to the top 10 and you’ll find [...]
Korean modeling student Kang Seung-hyun has been named Ford Supermodel of the World 2008. She’s the first Asian to take the award. Coincidentally, in 2004, a Kenyan model with the name of “Ajuma” competed in the contest.
Will a jointly developed version of Linux bring the two Korea’s together?
Music video of SES’s single “U” released way back in 2000, with scenes showing the members tormenting white guys. Now that I think about it I remember reading an editorial in the Korea Times or Herald, where the non-Korean contributor stated that he (she?) was disturbed when he (she?) watched the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFunO0VZXhw
President-elect Lee Myung-bak said that for a “new, mature Seoul-Tokyo relationship,” there would be no more demands for an apology from Japan.
Just when you thought the whole realm of cyberspace couldn’t get any more intrusive, alas we have broken some ground again! Only this time, it goes well beyond the constraints of your monitor and into your, uh, trap… The new venture even sends the kit to your doorstep prepped for action… Don’t ‘add’ me, baby - [...]
Sometimes, you just have to shake your head. Incidentally, the crew was busted after they took a 14-year-old girl to a convenience store to have sex with the owner, an alleged regular whose name I shudder to reprint here. Oh, and in other fucked-up news from the great state of Texas…
President-elect Lee might like his waterway projects grandiose, but he likes his government small. And to prove it, Lee’s transition team is going through government ministries like a bulldozer through an elevated highway, axing five ministries along with three sub-organizations and — best of all, perhaps — a ton of presidential committees.
The Chosun Ilbo headline [...]
As per yeinjee, MBC has fired their news anchor, Moon Ji-ae after she was criticized for laughing at the end of a live news broadcast on January 7.
President-elect Lee met with Korean Buddhist leaders yesterday to tell them he would take measures to preserve Korea’s Buddhist cultural heritage. Well, I only hope he does, because there are still some bitter memories from the last time a Presbyterian elder was president of the country.
