- ROK Drop posts on Senegal’s North Korean-designed national monument, which we’ve mentioned before. Here are some photos of the monument, however, including drawings of what it should look like when completed. Give credit where credit is due — it’s almost as cool as The Motherland Calls, and the woman is considerably perkier. My guess is that the artists had to look outside of North Korea for inspiration for that part.
- Speaking of cute chicks, Yoon Eun-hye has released a rather revealing photo series.
- Next year’s G-20 summit will be held on a floating island in the Hangang River.
- OK, this is disturbing: Google will “Koreanize” the main page of its Korean page next month. Quoting the KT: “Google Korea plans a major facelift for its main page in December, displaying media content such as news and entertainment, photos, popular blog entries, alternative searches and other items of interest upfront.” I guess they gotta do what they gotta do, but…
- Ye Olde Chosun reports on foreign tourists’ favorite souvenirs. Chinese apparently like nail clippers. Can’t say I expected that.
- The Ministry of Education is apparently strengthening regulations to fire teachers convicted of sex crimes.
- Gangnam’s Urban Hive: an architectural landmark Korea can call its own?
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Hangang River? Is that the one north of Jejudo Island?
White gloves — whether worn by grooms at Korean weddings, or dignitaries in G-20 summit planning meeting photo ops — are faggy. Always have been, always will be.
Where and why did that tradition start in Korea?
Ladybird Johnson was a big hit w/ the lads. Sadly Jackie’s pillbox hat never really took off.
It’s amusing when all the big shots have to wear the host’s national costume. I hoping it’ll be samulnori get up w/ the Hostess Snowball hats. Bonus points if they have bang the traditional
pot lidggwaenggwari and prance around in a circle. What a racket!Han River River?
Sorry, Vince, I just realised you made the same point!!
“OK, this is disturbing: Google will “Koreanize” the main page of its Korean page next month. ”
What’s disturbing about it?
Why can’t we accept that different people/nationalities may have different tastes? Why must the Western tastes and senses be the standard rule for everything?
There is still http://www.google.com, it’s not like they’re taking away a choice.
Where did you get the idea this is a “Korean” thing? Attend a U.S. military ball — whether it be the USMC or U.S. Army ball — and white gloves are standard attire with dress uniform.
gold-plated, no doubt. i wonder if they use the korean or japanese word when shopping in korea.
Rob,
“Rather Revealing” does not equal NSFW…
Fair enough.
I would simply say that a preference for clean lines, simplicity, and effectiveness in purpose evidences a certain emotional maturity, while a preference for chaotic flibber-flabber, cutesy anime creatures, disorganization, and visual overload is characteristic of a certain immaturity.
#10
dogbertt:
…while a preference for chaotic flibber-flabber, cutesy anime creatures, disorganization, and visual overload is characteristic of a certain immaturity.
Hey dogbert. I missed you, old buddy!
You ought to take a break from stalking teenage girls blogs more often.
And west of Mt. Soraksan.
dogbertt @ #10,
While I might well agree with your aesthetic tastes, refer Heinrich Wofflein, The Sense of Form in Art, which contrasts the plastic clarity and centeredness of Southern European art with Germanic artistic fluidity and ambiguity (which from memory he argues stems from forest dwelling – all things flow, one into another, and are ill-defined).
That Urban Hive building when I first saw it reminded me of this building in Hong Kong.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com.....4dfbfa.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8iMUvSkK.....C_1412.JPG
It sometimes is refered to the building of a thousand assholes.
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