Both the Korea Times and Korea Herald have run stories on the death of 14-year-old Michael White in a sauna near Daegu:
The Korea Times piece is mostly a recap of mother Stephannie White’s statements and stuff you can read on blogs, although it will probably be coming out with some more in-depth stuff later.
The Korea [...]
Astronaut candidate Ko San, who was replaced at the last moment by Yi So-yeon as Korea’s first astronaut, suspects spy agencies were behind his sudden replacement:
Astronaut candidate Ko San said Friday that he didn’t understand his sudden replacement — in March — on Korea’s first mission to the International Space Station (ISS), and intimated that [...]
Want to rant? This is the place to do it.
Dear Korean-speaking Marmot readers,
I’m looking to add to my blog favorites a few good Korean language blogs that post on a variety of topics, attract some informed, reasoned commenters, and get a large number of hits. Your recommendations are most welcome.
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Last year the city of Boston began transliterating candidates’ names on local ballots, and now the city council is petitioning for names on state and federal ballots to be written in Chinese characters, also.
“It’s just a very basic right,” said Lydia Lowe, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association, which is pushing the vote. “Why [...]
When is a kid getting a bloody nose after being hit by a golf ball a newsworthy event? When the child is Japanese and the golfer a US service member stationed in Japan.
HT to ROKdrop.
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Jesus (read the comments, too)… are even Gitmo inmates forced to suffer comparable indignities?
It seems hard to believe that another year has flown by so quickly, but yes it is once again time for the events celebrating Korea’s ancient tradition of excellent green teas. The key Goku date that separates the picking of first-class ujeon-cha from second-class sejak-cha passed a month ago on the third full moon, and [...]
Brilliant stuff by Mike Breen in the KT:
In an unusual twist on the current U.S. beef issue, animal psychologists in the American state of Montana are reporting a growing resistance among American cows to the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
“They don’t want to be eaten by Koreans,” said Bucky McGee, the legendary “cow whisperer” who [...]
Screw “peak oil” — the real threat to the Korean economy is peak woneomin.
Native Speaker Cost Skyrocketing!
Korea’s favorite Moonie rag the Segye Ilbo, in two separate reports, warns that added immigration requirements for foreign English teachers has led to a shortfall in teachers coming to Korea, and teacher salaries are skyrocketing as a result.
In the [...]
A study by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research indicates that, by and large, Koreans in America actually assimilate pretty well. Koreans ranked fourth when listing nationalities behind (suprise, suprise!) no. 1 Canadians, no. 2 Philippines and (suprise?) no. 3 Cubans. Behind Cubans?
Koreans also tied for the fourth spot with Vietnamese. The study found that the [...]
Choe Sang-Hun has posted a good article on this issue, featuring Ok So-Ri.
Police have busted four men for purchasing sex from teenage students.
One paid 60,000 won for the sex. The prostitutes included an 18-year-old high school kid and a 19-year-old university theology student.
Lee Yung-hyeock, an assistant professor of criminal justice studies at Korea National Police University, startlingly revealed — are you sitting down? — that gay people [...]
Apparently it’s no longer safe to bring your family to the baseball game anymore thanks to drunk foreign men.
Not to defend my jackass dongpo, but when I think about how well the behaved Samsung Lion fans treated Lotte’s Felix Jose in the 1999 playoffs, I’ve just got to laugh.
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The National Assembly and Lee Administration has failed to pass a bill that would create a national teacher evaluation system. Considering the history of this bill and its background, one must wonder what is going on with the politics of this issue.
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The child-on-child sexual assault scandal in Daegu has prompted the government to get tough on online porn.
Nooooo!
The government is putting together a taskforce that would force Internet portal sites and P2P businesses to block porn and other illegal information.
I guess that means no more Bangbros via eMule.
Moreover, the government is planning to spend some 234.9 [...]
UPDATE 4: Socius in Daejeon has more.
UPDATE 3: You know what I find disheartening about this? This happened five days ago, and still no news. Meanwhile, on the day before he died, Yonhap reports that some dumbass Canadian college lecturer in Busan got busted trying to mail himself pot. That made the news. A kid [...]
Sunny Lee at Asia Times writes about how the Borg of China™ may have shown Koreans that they are absolute pussies when it comes down to enthusiastic displays of nationalistic protest.
Per the article:
South Korea’s reputation as the world’s unparalleled bastion of nationalism and master of all forms of street protests - ranging from physical confrontations with [...]
But it’s not global warming that’s doing the damage, it’s the low birth rate. Old news? Yes. But new news is that it appears to be affecting the classrooms at a level that’s quantifiable. Yikes!
According to the to the National Statistical Office (NSO), Tuesday, the number of young people aged 6-21 totaled 10.2 million nationwide this [...]
Well, that pavilion above the entrance does look a bit odd for a hanok, no?
The Wealthy Hyeon Family House in Beolgyo, Jeollanam-do featured prominently in Jo Jung-rae’s The Taebaek Mountains. The house, with its clear Japanese influences (such as the pavilion above the entrance) is a perfect representation of colonial Korea’s collaborating landed elite. In [...]
