In order to keep the ongoing (and boy is it ever ongoing) Democratic primary race from clogging the other threads, here is a special zone just for that subject. HRC beat BHO by 10% in Pennsylvania today (which is yesterday today in Korea….)
To warm things up, here is my vote for quote of the day:
Is [...]
Where might you hear a government investigator say the following?
Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.
Find out here.
Hackers reportedly broke into the Cheong Wa Dae computer network in February and stole classified documents from the National Security Council (NSC). Shockingly, they used a worm that infected the desktop PC of a NSC employee.
Well, Cheong Wa Dae, it’s only one more day until Ubuntu releases version 8.04.
Well, at least this guy didn’t pull a Hanhwa and rely on his dad:
A son of the founder of a renowned shoe company was convicted of assaulting and torturing his business partner.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced the man, identified as Lee, 48, to two years and six months in prison. Lee is a son [...]
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MH reader Zhang Fei posted a comment containing a story of an American injured by an angry mob outside a Carrefour in Hunan Province. The story appears to have been posted originally at the Shanghaiist:
Last night [Editor’s note: Sunday, Apr 20] around 7pm my friend was attacked by a mob of about 150 people [...]
Tough crowd, these Chinese cabbies.
Battle of the Spires: Gyesan-dong Cathedral vs. Daegu First Presbyterian Church
Daegu.
Park Geun-hye Country.
Shitty weather, worse food, girls who speak with cute accents and local politics only slightly to the right of Mussolini’s.
While there is certainly plenty of sites of cultural and historical importance around Daegu, most consider Daegu to be — at most — a [...]
It seems that the Olympic Torch will be coming to South Korea on or around April 26 but the odd thing is that the only mention of this is by the JoongAng Ilbo article on “Athletes selected to carry the torch in North Korea“. Naturally the North Koreans will cheer for the torch (which [...]
Or so says Yonhap.
Update:Or does he? I have been admittedly turned a rather jaded eye to the whole Samsung thing, half expecting Lee to play the “Hospital Card”. Something caught my eye.
Who will control Samsung now? The literal heir apparent is Lee Jae-yong, Kun-Hee’s son who has been groomed for quite a while. However, the [...]
When Virginia Tech needed someone to help Korean students deal with the mass shootings last April, they contacted Harvard education lecturer Josephine Kim, who spent two weeks with the students in Falling Waters, West Virginia. After this experience, she realized the need to reach out to young Korean-Americans coping with high expectations, communication barriers, [...]
Ten-year-old Lee Ha-young speaks Korean with a Daegu accent and loves the Wondergirls. Her name and dialect belie her Indonesian ancestry. Born to illegal migrant worker parents married to others, she was adopted as an infant by Pastor Lee Young-mo and Ha Kyeong-ae, who already had two biological children when they fell in [...]
So not only was Kim DJ in the US during LMB’s visit but now it seems that “A former South Korean intelligence agent granted asylum in the United States said Monday he will disclose what he knows about the suspicions surrounding former President Kim Dae-jung’s Nobel Peace Prize at a news conference this weekend.” — [...]
What happens when you take a bunch of nice Korean girls and stick them in the New Zealand school system? This, apparently:
A group of Korean girls’ assault on a love-rival in New Zealand has shocked the Korean community there. A juvenile court in North Shore, Auckland, recently convicted six teenage girls studying at two top [...]
The KT has a brief writeup on the results of the Lee-Bush summit at Camp David.
Oh, and here’s the full text of the statement the Korean side released following the meeting.
Taken yesterday at Dong Daegu Station.
There is an interesting interview with Global Voices contributor, Kim Hye-Jin, a Korean contributor to Global Voices, who has written a novel called Jia — A Novel of North Korea. The interview is here.
Kim Hye-Jin also “works as a development adviser for the Singapore Korean School and as a technical interpreter facilitating [...]
Orchestras in the EU now need to consider how loud their orchestras are and if orchestra members should wear earplugs . . . believe it or not.
