Sure, its politics are crap, but damn, the fight scenes are dope.
A group of Korean-American housewives have released a statement opposing the full opening of the Korean market to US beef, reports the Kyunghyang Shinmun.
The group, called in Korean the “Korean-American Housewives Group Demanding Renegotiation of Beef Imports,” refuted point-by-point a May 7 statement by another Korean-American group supporting US beef. The group said it felt [...]
My brother Kevin, the man behind film review site Pretentious Musings (see also sidebar), takes some shots at print-media film critics at MSNBC:
The proliferation of online critics has been described as a “democratization” by many who enjoy getting their movie information from various sources throughout the land. Kevin Koehler runs a site called pretentiousmusings.com, which [...]
Check out Mike Breen’s take on the students demonstrating against US beef. Quite funny, and ultimately asks some intriguing questions. Here’s a sample:
I must confess my first thought upon being confronted with protestors last Friday night and on reading the subsequent coverage was to link their rather ill thought-through cause to other historical moments of [...]
There are many paths up the mountain to happiness. Some try Zen meditation. Others vote conservative.
PS: Nice to see the “conservatism as pathology” tripe is still around.
Also in the JoongAng Ilbo, it appears the kiddies are taking full part in the anti-US beef festivities, with university, high school and middle school students taking part in signature campaigns and candlelight protests against the evil mi (美) chinso.
The JoongAng — no doubt saving it for later use against the Korean Teachers Union — [...]
The JoongAng Ilbo reports that Hallim University Medical School dean Kim Yong-seon, whose thesis claiming that Koreans were particularly at risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease sparked the whole US beef import uproar, has told friends that media reports have exaggerated his findings, and politicians are misusing them for political gain.
Hallim University Director Yun Dae-won, who [...]
Today’s Working Daze cartoon.
(HT to Phrasskin)
Chinese authorities have arrested three accomplices involved in the January hacker attack on popular Korean auction site “Auction,” the Korean subsidiary of eBay.
Meanwhile, Chinese and Korean authorities have identified the actual hackers, a Korean and a Chinese, and are looking for them now, an unnamed Korean police official said.
The criminals hacked into the “Auction” database, [...]
The Iceberg is getting hitched.
We now have an outbreak of avian influenza at a bird farm in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul.
Authorities have confirmed it to be the H5NI strain that can be fatal to humans.
The lesson of this story? Chicken and beef can kill. Eat dog — it’s good for you. And stock up on your kimchi.
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A 41-year-old cattle farmer in Hampyeong killed himself after attempting to beat his Filipino wife and three children to death with a farm implement.
And leave it to the Hankyoreh to connect it with US beef imports.
(HT to Western Confucian)
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In usually quiet Chungcheongbuk-do, local prosecutors have booked a 40-year-old National Assembly secretariat staffer for having sex with prostitutes in China.
The staffer is accused of employing the services of hard-working bar girls in lovely Qingdao, China some three times since 2006.
All this would have probably have passed without incident had the accused not posted nude [...]
We can thank Ok So-ri for something other than providing tons of quality blog material — the naughty actress’s petition to the Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of Korea’s criminal adultery law will be heard Thursday.
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The Sports Chosun reports that there are a surprising number of “classic” Korean cars still on the road.
For instance, there are still some 638 Kia Brisa (1974–1981), 256 Sehan (now Daewoo) Gemini (1977–1981), 7,064 Hyundai Ponies (1976–1990) and 1,444 Hyundai Cotinas (1968–1983) registered with the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association.
Last July, I spotted a Hyundai Pony [...]
The Hankyoreh reports that some major works of late architect Kim Swoo-geun have been torn down or are on the verge of being town down.
Last year, of course, the Hanguk Ilbo building in Junghak-dong — built in 1968 — was torn down. Now, the Tower Hotel (1969) and Seun Arcade (1967) face a similar fate. [...]
I missed last week’s Open Thread, so if you’ve had something bottled up for the last two weeks, now’s the time to get it off your chest.
PS: Thanks to Philip for the very nice write-up at London Korea Links.
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Just updated to Wordpress 2.5.1. Wordpress users who haven’t done so yet may wish to do so.
I’ve also added a “Related Posts” section to the end of each post. This is courtesy a plugin written by Robert Marsh of the Society of Jesus. And if you can’t trust a plugin written by a Jesuit, whose [...]
Then there are stories like this:
Regional council members’ angered an international sports goods maker through making sexually explicit gestures during their visit to its headquarters abroad. The politicians quickly tried to explain themselves, claiming “difference of culture” as an excuse, but businessmen in the United States called for an apology and prohibited the council members [...]
Seoul: The City of Haechi.
The fabled Haechi, a lion-like horned creature, has been chosen as the symbol representing Seoul, while the “Hi Seoul” slogan promoting the city from many years will be replaced by either “Soul Seoul” or “Soul of Seoul.” An official who participated in choosing new symbols for the capital said Thursday the [...]
