Korea Blog Aggregator
Just a feed of some of my favorite (mostly) Korea-related blogs.
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- February 07 · ParaPundit
Man Demands Sex In Prenuptial
Seems very practical to me. I have been with my partner for two years and we are talking about getting married. But, he says he won’t commit himself to me (or anyone) unless there’s a firm deal in (...) - February 07 · Asian Correspondent: Nathan Schwartzman
Korean human rights commission disapproves women-only library
Original article in Korean is at this link. The National Human Rights Commission has issued its opinion that operating a municipal library for women only, which men are not allowed to use, constitutes (...) - February 07 · 환영합니다~ 문화재청 블로그입니다~
2010년 문화재사진 공모전 (금상_김대호님_경복궁 향원정)
tag : 경복궁, 문화유산, 문화재, 문화재청, 향원정, 사진공모전, 문화유산 사진 공모전 (...) - February 07 · Taki's Magazine
Who Wants War With Iran?
by Patrick J. Buchanan Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intellige (...) - February 07 · Taki's Magazine
Too Fat to Fit Through the Eye of a Needle
by Kathy Shaidle Charles Murray is a genius with a bad idea. Murray is an expert on IQ, but while not even he might qualify as a “genius” based on his own criteria, he sure as h (...) - February 07 · Surprisesaplenty's Blog
Teacher’s pay
One of my aunts has long been a critic of teacher’s pay. Well, we haven’t discussed the subject in years, so let’s say she was a critic. She felt that Canadian school teachers on (...) - February 07 · 환영합니다~ 문화재청 블로그입니다~
2010년 문화재사진 공모전 (은상_김미자님_낙선재)
tag : 유네스코, 낙선재, 창덕궁, 문화유산, 문화재, 문화재청, 세계문화유산 (...) - February 07 · 환영합니다~ 문화재청 블로그입니다~
2010년 문화재사진 공모전 (은상_장세현님_어느 멋진날의 향원정)
tag : 국보, 보물, 경복궁, 공모전, 문화유산, 문화재, 문화재청, 향원정, 사진공모전 (...) - February 07 · Ask a Korean!
The Korean's Epistemology: Avoid Truisms, Take Some Risks
Here is another attempt at a running series that may or may not continue. This series will be about more general discussions about epistemology (i.e. study of knowledge,) and how the Korean prefers to (...) - February 07 · Registan.net
What to do with a problem like Uzbekistan
The stars aligned and two interviews I gave over the last week for different-language’d public media have been published. The first is with Dutch Public Radio, and it’s about the U.S. dec (...) - February 07 · Gusts Of Popular Feeling
Battle royale
'native speaker'I was really hoping, based on the illustration, that this article would be more interesting; unfortunately, it's just about American and French English language learning programs compe (...) - February 07 · ROK Drop
Faces In Korea: Muhammad Ali
One of the side benefits of having US military servicemembers stationed in Korea is that many famous celebrities have come to visit the troops there over the years. However, there probably hasnR (...) - February 07 · Registan.net
Kazakhstan needs religious patriots! (And already has them.)
Last week, Kazakhstan’s Vice Prime Minister Erbol Orynbaev told the board of the Ministry of Education and Science that the country’s schools have a vital assignment: to prevent “ideological e (...) - February 06 · Gypsy Scholar
Dominanskriminalitet: Dominance-Criminality
Snaphanen HeaderI read a lot of articles about issues that I don't report on because I have not figured out how to fit them into a framework that clarifies their meaning. For instance, how are we to u (...) - February 06 · ROK Drop
Picture of the Day: Mickey Rooney Feeds Troops During the Korean War
USO Troupe - Mickey Rooney amd members of his show feed troops chow; right to left are : Dick Winslow, Mickey Rooney, Deenah Prince, Alice Tyrrell, and Red Barry. October 12, 1952. Cpl. John Scoblic. (...) - February 06 · Registan.net
Geldy Kyarizov’s Deteriorating Condition
A few weeks ago, I highlighted the plight of Geldy Kyarizov, a former horse trainer turned political prisoner in Turkmenistan. Amnesty International has just released an Urgent Action alert on his det (...) - February 06 · ROK Drop
Korean War Era Remains To Be Handed Over To the US By South Korea
Another Korean War veteran will finally be returning home: South Korea says it will hand over to the United States what are believed to be the remains of an American soldier killed in the early days (...) - February 06 · ParaPundit
Troubled Youth: Mislabeling?
In our ear when bad kids do bad things they are often referred to as troubled youth. This seems Orwellian. At Merriam Webster the first definition for troubled is "concerned, worried" and th (...) - February 06 · Gusts Of Popular Feeling
Anti English Spectrum's new announcement
Anti English Spectrum, aka Citizens movement to expel illegal teachers of foreign languages, aka Citizens for proper English education, have posted a new announcement on their front page:For 8 years, (...) - February 06 · Asian Correspondent: Nathan Schwartzman
SKorea: School violence stays in the spotlight
The topic of school violence continues to be a major focus of the Korean media, seemingly presenting a never-ending source of stories. Today came the news of a not-very-bright group of bullies in Buch (...) - February 06 · Taki's Magazine
The Festering Falklands Fiasco
by Guy Somerset The thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands War is rolling around, and Argentina’s leadership is starting to sound the battle cry again. Buenos Aires is already push (...) - February 06 · Taki's Magazine
Homosexuality: What’s Choice Got to Do With it?
by Jim Goad The Pink Mafia’s tirelessly active activists recently upbraided former Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon for insisting that her switch from a heterosexual lifesty (...) - February 06 · Gypsy Scholar
Paladin in Have Gun -- Will Travel
PaladinI was born in 1957, the same year that Have Gun -- Will Travel debuted, and I recall seeing the series on television during my early years sometimes in Kansas City, whenever I was there off and (...) - February 06 · Gusts Of Popular Feeling
Hockey night in... Korea
I discovered this site, which looks at the history of hockey in Korea. Such a history can't do without some photos, like the one below, of Canadian troops playing hockey in Korea during the war. (...) - February 05 · ROK Drop
Super Bowl Open Thread – February 5, 2012
For anyone wanting to discuss the Super Bowl here is the Open Thread to do so. (...) - February 05 · Monster Island (actually a peninsula)
Take Ŏnni
If ever there was a sign that North Korea may actually, really, sincerely be poised for a big change, this is it. No, I'm not kidding. (And yeah, when I was young, we did joke that A-ha was singi (...) - February 05 · Ask a Korean!
Ask a Korean! News: Racial Tension Flaring in Dallas
Oh boy:The African American community in Dallas has been protesting a gas station run by a Korean-born U.S. citizen in a predominately black neighborhood in South Dallas for over a month, taking issue (...) - February 05 · ROK Drop
Picture of the Day: Keeping Warm In 1946 Korea
We stayed in an old schoolroom while stationed at Seoul, Korea.I recall Jaunary being quite cold. The stove was our only source of heat. We used photoflod bulbs for light because the voltage was so l (...) - February 05 · Soju and Sake - by Kathreb
Current reading (interruption)
Following on from his big selling book, Bad Samaritans: Rich nations, poor policies and the threat to the developing world, Ha-Joon Chang has come out with a more populist title, 23 Things They Don (...) - February 05 · Registan.net
COMISAF Responds to Latest UNAMA Report: I Ain’t Happy
So yesterday I posted this here at Registan. What will be interesting to see is how ISAF responds to this report, if it will at all. They’re certainly quick to point out how IEDs are a good thing (...) - February 05 · ROK Drop
ROK Drop Open Thread – February 5, 2012
Please leave anything you want to discuss in the comments section. (...) - February 05 · ROK Drop
Should Pension For US Military General Officers Be Reformed?
Here is some US military pension reform that I think reform should be looked at: A change in federal law to keep experienced officers in uniform allows top generals and admirals to make more in retir (...) - February 05 · Asian Correspondent: Nathan Schwartzman
Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — Feb. 5, 2011
Top 10 in society. 1. Some guy got into a fight with a pizza store owner who sent him a cold shrimp and potato chip pizza after he asked him for “something expensive my kids will like.” 2. (...) - February 05 · Taki's Magazine
When Democracy Murders Liberty
by Paul Gottfried In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and onetime fixture of the left Eckhard Henscheid explained why he had moved toward th (...) - February 05 · Gypsy Scholar
Auden and Benda on Intellectual Betrayal?
The Treason of the Clerks?Google ImagesI was reading W.H. Auden's 1941 poem "At the Grave of Henry James" early this morning and was struck by its final line, so I'm posting the last stanza here:Al (...) - February 05 · ROK Drop
Okinawa Plan Modified To Base Marines In Australia, Philippines, & Guam
It looks like at least the US Marines are going to have a base in the Philippines again: The Obama administration is preparing to scale back a stalled U.S. military plan to relocate Marine forces fro (...) - February 05 · ROK Drop
Couple Alleged To Have Given Trade Secrets From DuPont To Chinese Government
It is good to see that the US government is finally starting to take some action against the Chinese economic espionage going on within the US: Federal authorities successfully kept a U.S. busines (...) - February 04 · Monster Island (actually a peninsula)
Obama finally getting aggressive?
I didn't vote for Obama, but with Jon Huntsman having dropped out, I don't see anyone in the Republican field that I'd want over the president. And frankly, I'm sick and tired of the constant crap-t (...) - February 04 · ROK Drop
Picture of the Day: Frozen Cheonggyecheon
A fountain in the Cheonggye Stream is frozen in Seoul on Wednesday. /Newsis (...) - February 04 · Registan.net
More IEDs, More Dead Civilians — ISAF’s 2011? Pretty Great Year
Some days I worry that I’m suffering from sleep apnea. Which, in turn, is causing me to lose oxygen to my brain. Which, in turn, is causing me to not fully comprehend what I read, particularly o (...) - February 04 · Gypsy Scholar
Uncle Cran's Ozark Pet: "Macavity - The Mystery Cat"
Mystery Cat?Lower Left Quarter of Photo(Click twice for better viewing.)My Uncle Cran recently managed to obtain a game-camera photo of a mystery cat on his Ozark farm in northern Arkansas. You can se (...) - February 04 · Monster Island (actually a peninsula)
Has North Korea actually done double the number of tests we've thought?
That's the suggestion being made in Nature, based on isotope readings found around the region: North Korea may have conducted two covert nuclear weapons tests in 2010, according to a fresh analysis of (...) - February 04 · Asian Correspondent: Nathan Schwartzman
SKorea: Teacher arrested for secret camera photos
Original article in Korean is at this link. A middle school teacher has been indicted after it was found that he possessed a memory card contained over 500 pictures secretly taken with a cellphone. Th (...) - February 04 · Taki's Magazine
Judging Police Brutality on a Tase-by-Tase Basis
by The Editors Dark decades of direct experience with human beings have given us reason to operate from an ecumenical distrust of human nature. Although perfectly natural, human natu (...) - February 04 · Monster Island (actually a peninsula)
Kim Jong-un says he wants to pass gas
... to south Korea, that is. From Bloomberg: North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, supports an agreement to build a natural-gas pipeline from Russia to South Korea via his communist state, the Rus (...) - February 04 · Monster Island (actually a peninsula)
A Mitt of the people
With Mitt Romney stepping in it with ,000 bets, giddy proclamations that he enjoys firing people, announcements that he doesn't really care about the very poor, and revelations of Swiss and Cayman (...) - February 03 · Monster Island (actually a peninsula)
Another tacky Chinese knockoff
Although this one is ROC Chinese, not PRC Chinese: Really, despite the wings and the halo, if this is what Steve Jobs is doing now, you have to wonder if he's in the other place. And speaking of (...) - February 03 · Monster Island (actually a peninsula)
Dispirited 76
Imagine this scenario: You've applied for early decision to a favorite college and you get an official email informing you that, yes, you have been accepted, and that means you must, by contract, canc (...) - February 03 · Registan.net
Turkestan Album
For at least the last seven or eight years, the Prokudin-Gorskii collection of color photos of the Russian empire taken in the early 20th century, gets noticed and reported by journalists, history bu (...) - February 03 · One Free Korea
Why we should support the Syrian opposition, in spite of everything we know
Things sure aren’t looking too good in Egypt these days. I can’t say I’m terribly surprised by this. For decades, the true character of its society lay latent behind the veil of a (...)
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