You know, I think the North Koreans are trying to say they are displeased with the direction the new South Korean administration has taken in regards to intra-Korean affairs.
Yawn…
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This wonderful little video is of a Korean song but the guitarist looks Japanese and the drummer is absolutely wild. A Wild Korean Band
UPDATE: The deadline for applications has been pushed back to April 7.
ORIGINAL POST: Liberty in North Korea (one of my favorite organizations) has a couple of upcoming projects which might be of interest to some readers. Please note that the deadline for submissions is March 31 (today) but they may take a few late ones [...]
Norimitsu Onishi has posted (NY Times) a nice article on Vietnamese women married to Koreans.
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If you’re a contributor, you’ll notice quite a few changes “under the hood,” so to speak, but nothing you won’t get used to after a couple of minutes.
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From the Financial Times;
South Korea’s soldiers will be asked to make do with only one bath a week while its air force pilots will have to do more training on computers instead of real fighters as record oil prices force the country to slash fuel usage.
The measures are among several arising from an emergency meeting [...]
Commenter Brian on the Open Thread posted a link to Korea Beat translation of a story from the Hankyorehon some schools requiring students with naturally brown or curly hair to show proof that these features are natural and carry special IDs, called 자연머리 확인증, or Confirmation of Natural Hair.
Recently schools have been requiring students with [...]
An Ohio man has been arrested for having sex with a picnic table in his backyard and inside his home. This potential nominee for a Darwin Award made porn videos of the acts, and those DVDs were passed along to the police.
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Michelle Wie is reportedly dating Stanford center Robin Lopez.
First rat heads in Chinese-made snacks, now whole rats in American-made frozen vegetables.
Not all was shitty during the last year of the Roh Moo-hyun administration.
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Over at Boing Boing, there’s a short documentary on the wackiness and intrigue that is Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
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A little something partially Korean to warm you up this weekend — University of Missouri’s Reagan Yun (NSFW!), Playboy’s Coed of the Month of December 2006 (NSFW).
More galleries here, here and here. Oh, and here.
Be sure to check out the video (see also here), too (NSFW).
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Cold and rainy… not the nicest start of a weekend, but enjoy it none the less.
BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents has a report on Korean missionary work in Asia (March 31, 2030 GMT). As per the article on such, some of the more interesting quotes run as such:
. . . many church members in South Korea go a step further, signing up for visits to Korean missions abroad - [...]
How in the world did I miss this news?
Woodstock, the legendary music festival from 1968, will be revived in Korea with a participant from the original event, Neil Young.
Young is known as the godfather of grunge and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
The concert in Seoul, titled “Flower Power [...]
Pyongyang is apparently miffed that South Korea no longer has a leader who will bend over and take it:
In a sign of tense inter-Korean relations, North Korea Thursday expelled most of Korean officials from the Kaesong Industrial Complex.
The turnaround of the North’s stance came in an apparent protest over the current Lee Myung-bak administration’s tough [...]
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