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Taki’s Magazine » Memo to Socialites: Ditch the Birkin, Save a Fish

Posted 19 minutes ago

New York seems to be full of people who go to shop openings and social events just to be seen. I don’t much care for these parties because I would rather see my friends privately, and have an actual conversation, than feign interest in something I don’t care about like a handbag with Tinsley Mortimer’s name on it. Being photographed ... [Link]

Asian Correspondent: Korea Beat » Bong Joon-ho interviewed by AV Club

Posted 27 minutes ago

My favorite pop culture site recently sat down with the famed director. Read the results here.... [Link]

Chris Backe - AKA Chris in South Korea » Brilliant guesswork, 2S2, and a few other odds and ends

Posted 41 minutes ago

From Lost in Jeju: Take the Foreign Worker Test! Fill in the blanks with the correct response:1. Most foreign workers accept that they have a daunting task to obtain avisa and maintain their legal status in ______.2. "These recent hurdles have to do with historic, traditional ______xenophobia. Suspicion of people, from abroad, coming to ______ doing somethingin _____.3. "You know, ... [Link]

Ask a Korean! » No title

Posted 97 minutes ago

A very popular New York Times article this week is about people trying to find a way to build a better teacher. The entire article is very much worth a read. One passage in the article caught the Korean's eyes:When Doug Lemov conducted his own search for those magical ingredients, he noticed something about most successful teachers that he hadn’t ... [Link]

Brian in Jeollanam-do » Jindo mi-rak-kul festival almost here.

Posted 2 hours ago

Jindo county celebrates the Jindo Sea-Parting Festival (진도군 바닷길축제) each spring, a festival also known as the Moses Miracle and the Mysterious Sea-Parting Festival. This year's will take place from March 30th through April 1st. If you're unfamiliar with it, and haven't yet Googled it, the tide goes out and reveals a 2.8-kilometer strip of land that allows you to ... [Link]

ZenKimchi Korean Food Journal » Junk Food is Key to Korean Food Globalization

Posted 3 hours ago

Gamja fries topped with chopped galbi. (from SF Weekly) I’ve hinted it many times, and we just keep getting confirmation after confirmation. The Korean government and corporations dream of conquering the world with their prissy pretentious overpriced “well-being” concept of Korean food–you know the postulations like “Americans pay $300 for Japanese food, why not Korean” and “Americans only eat hamburgers, ... [Link]

Brian in Jeollanam-do » Economist underestimates Korean interest in Sea of Japan.

Posted 4 hours ago

Driving around the internet today I came across this paragraph on The Economist online:WHENEVER the English claim the Channel, Frenchmen simply shrug, and go on calling it La Manche. Koreans describe their two seas as Western and Eastern, but if others want to call them the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, who cares? The Iranians are not so ... [Link]

Gusts Of Popular Feeling » Down by the Han River park near Banghwa

Posted 6 hours ago

I had a pleasant surprise the other day when I rode my bike down to the Han River park in Banghwa-dong:What you see above is what used to be a single lane bike path which people walked on and which was often borderline dangerous, as there were blind curves where you could have close calls with oncoming bikes or pedestrians. ... [Link]

ROK Drop » Japan Dominated By Korea During Winter Olympics

Posted 6 hours ago

I didn’t realize that the Japanese did this poorly at the recent Winter Olympics: Japan and Russia are still trying to come to terms with their poor showing in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Thursday pointed out that Korea operates a pension system for Olympic medalists and pledged to give serious thought to what Tokyo ... [Link]

Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* » Daily Kor for March 10, 2010

Posted 7 hours ago

It may be a testament of how things have changed from the Roh administration to the Lee administration that two North Korean asylum seekers could top news, sort of. Although the Roh administration did take in thousands of North Korean refugees — more than all other administrations combined — they also tried to downplay the issue in the media and ... [Link]

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