The Hankyoreh talked with Chinese students about Sunday’s ugliness, and found that while most expressed regret about the violence, they also felt they were being unfairly singled out:
Concerning the violent situation that took place during the Olympic torch relay on April 27, Chinese students and other Chinese generally expressed “regret.” But they also protested that [...]
Oddly, the government has not been amused with gangs of punky young foreigners running riot in the heart of the national capital — the government has decided to deal with the rioters in stern fashion, including deportations.
In a Cabinet meeting today, Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said, “As the pride of our citizens has been hurt [...]
Civic groups are accusing the Chinese embassy of organizing the Chinese protesters that ran riot in Seoul on Sunday, reports YTN.
In particular, the embassy is accused of sending text messages, letters and making phone calls to Chinese students, asking them to participate.
Chinese students who participated, however, deny this, claiming they got involved through overseas student [...]
From One Free Korea:
Being a glass-half-full sort of guy, I look at things like this and tell myself that a billion people can’t ALL be assholes.
The Foreign Ministry gave the Chinese ambassador to Seoul as close to a dressing down as the Foreign Ministry is prepared to give the Chinese, expressing “strong regret” about Chinese youth running riot in Seoul yesterday.
The Chinese ambassador, for his part, expressed his regret and condolences over the reporter and cop that got hurt by [...]
April 28, 2008 – 11:24 am
Sorry, Joshua, I just couldn’t resist:
From Yonhap.
Oh, and if the hapless Americans/Canadians who got assaulted by the Chinese yesterday are reading this, your plight was reported in the very right-wing Korean online paper FreeZone, which, if you’re anything like the pro-Tibet people I knew in the States, is probably the last place you wanted your [...]
More stuff along the same lines of what Sonagi and Elgin posted — our Chinese friends got a bit rough yesterday, scaring and otherwise pissing off a good many Koreans.
First, there were the Chinese throwing water bottles, sticks and stones at activists from a North Korean refugee rights group at Olympic Park. One reporter working [...]
Police have busted six foreign English teachers employed at famous language hagwon for smoking pot.
Seoul Police announced yesterday that they’d detained a 40-year-old illegal alien from Ghana and booked (without detention) a 31-year-old Korean hagwon instructor by the name of Lee for drug law violations. They also booked six foreign teachers — including a 30-year-old [...]
Actor Choi Min-soo apologized today for punching an elderly (in his 70s) Itaewon restaurant owner in the face and then trying to flee with the victim still on the hood of his car.
At a press conference yesterday, Choi said that no matter what he said, it wouldn’t be an excuse.
The incident took place on April [...]
April 25, 2008 – 11:19 am
The disgruntled 70-year-old man who burnt down Seoul’s historic Sungnyemun Gate has been sentenced to 10 years in the pen.
When you take out your garbage, be sure to use the correct bag, lest something like this happen to you.
Well, the North Koreans won’t be too happy about this:
After seven months of near-total secrecy, the White House is preparing to make public on Thursday video evidence of North Koreans working at a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor just before it was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike last September.[...] The timing of the administration’s decision to [...]
OK, so you’re sitting in some bank in Namdaemun, a large bag of money with you.
Next to you sits a foreigner. He notes that you’ve dropped some money.
You go to pick it up, but while you’re distracted, the foreigner’s buddies comes and takes your bag of money. When you finally notice, it’s too late.
You are [...]
A Seoul court has found guilty a school headmaster who was caught using his cell phone camera on a bus to take photos of a skirt-wearing high school student’s thighs.
The bench ruled that although the photos were taken in a public place and the girl’s thighs were exposed by her own choice, the photos could [...]
April 24, 2008 – 12:52 pm
Mongolians in search of the Korean Dream are learning Korean by the ger-load:
English may be the most popular foreign language in Korea, but in Mongolia more people take the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) than the TOEFL. The TOPIK is a Korean language proficiency test for non-Koreans, supervised by the Korea Institute of Curriculum [...]
April 24, 2008 – 10:58 am
Uwe Boll is now my hero.
This is Uwe Boll’s world. We’re just squatting in it.
From Wired.
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Like Brian — who has a full write-up/commentary on the Sexy Mong girls’ battle against evil blue-eyes and interracial relationships (or at least when they involve Korean women and foreign men) — I watched “Sexy Mong” last night. Or at least the end half of it.
But I missed “the scene.” Actually, I didn’t even know [...]
Where might you hear a government investigator say the following?
Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.
Find out here.
April 23, 2008 – 12:50 pm
Hackers reportedly broke into the Cheong Wa Dae computer network in February and stole classified documents from the National Security Council (NSC). Shockingly, they used a worm that infected the desktop PC of a NSC employee.
Well, Cheong Wa Dae, it’s only one more day until Ubuntu releases version 8.04.
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April 23, 2008 – 12:39 pm
Well, at least this guy didn’t pull a Hanhwa and rely on his dad:
A son of the founder of a renowned shoe company was convicted of assaulting and torturing his business partner.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced the man, identified as Lee, 48, to two years and six months in prison. Lee is a son [...]
