Interestingly enough, a subcontracted enforcer (?), “hired by a private company under contract with the city”, was caught on video getting rough with an elderly street vendor. What happened to using the police to enforce the law? The Joongang article is here.
According to this JoongAng article, foreigners can now register to get the infamous residence registration number which most Korean portals require for one to use their site. This might have helped for getting an exclusively Korean Cyworld account years ago, when it was cool.
Update:
As per another JoongAng article, NK defectors are now demanding new residence [...]
AP has run a rather lengthy report on the widespread killing of leftists and suspected leftists in the wake of North Korea’s invasion of the South.
The report is an interesting read, even if it contains nothing we haven’t read before. For that matter, if we really want to “air out the dirty laundry, so to [...]
Took a little walk Saturday to a couple of sites of interest in the downtown area near Samsung Hospital.
Gyeonggyojang
Long-time readers will have seen this place before.
The Gyeonggyojang, located on the grounds of Samsung Hospital, was built in 1938 as the residence of Choe Chang-hak, a gold mining magnate who racked up an impressive resume of [...]
Students of Korean history at George Washington University have posted videos relating to the Gwangju Uprising, including a video compilation of evening news segments from the big three, CBS, NBC, and ABC.
HT to day4night.
Today marks the 28th anniversary of the Gwangju confrontation. It is something that has been dealt with on this blog and other K-blogs numerous times.
It has been described as a communist rebellion and as the spark that started Korea on the path to democracy. The truth is likely a messy combination of those and other [...]
Upcoming Royal Asiatic Society - Korea activities for M-Holers:
Tuesday, May 20th: RAS-K Lecture-Meeting, featuring Professor Donald Clark (PhD in in East Asian History from Harvard, author of books on Seoul and foreigners-in-Korea history, son and grandson of Presbyterian missionaries who first arrived in Korea in 1902). He will speak on “Where do Foreign Missionaries fit [...]
Sharp journalism like this is why the Chosun is Korea’s leading newspaper, although they seem to be doing some other things right as well.
In an interesting little piece, the Joongang reports that the shift to the right in the national assembly is even more dramatic than the numbers would indicate because there has also been a shift to the right within the Grand National Party.
The piece attributes the shift mainly to economic issues, which makes sense considering the [...]
Among a Chinese blog collection of photos of Beichuan near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake is a sad, sad photo of a deceased girl with one leg protruding from a pancaked stack of concrete that used to be Beichuan Middle School (note: a Chinese middle school is the equivalent to a North American high [...]
An ABC news video showing a masked gunman entering the LA County store of 51-year-old Hye-sook Roh and shooting her three times before robbing the store. In the video, a customer sobs as she recalls the friendly manner of Ms. Roh, who had been robbed three times before. The video is getting lots [...]
Choe Sang-hun posted an interesting article on a new propaganda museum (Remembrance Museum), located in Chongson, about 90 miles east of Seoul.
Though the mad cow/idiot vigils downtown may be of recent vintage, this museum takes one back through time with North/South propaganda found in dropped leaflets — many that are rare and difficult to find [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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