BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents has a report on Korean missionary work in Asia (March 31, 2030 GMT). As per the article on such, some of the more interesting quotes run as such:
. . . many church members in South Korea go a step further, signing up for visits to Korean missions abroad - [...]
How is it that Korean jurisprudence has a very poor record of awarding damages in civil lawsuits, yet Dong-guk University wants to sue Yale University for fifty-million dollars because they mistakenly sent a fax that verified Shin Jeong-ah’s bogus degree ?
The South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister, Yu Myung Hwan encouraged his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Friday to seek a peaceful solution to the deadly rioting in Tibet. Yu asked China to allow South Koreans traveling to the country for the Summer Games to enter the nation without visas.
Meanwhile the Chinese Government claims [...]
I really hope that Korean immigration do not start checking names that are on a list.
The food shortage in North Korea seems to be getting worse: “Some collective farm workers in those regions (rural areas) have not come to work citing the lack of food, and their absence is causing problems with farming preparations in the spring planting season”.
Some amusing quotes from the latest Korean astronaut, Lee So-yeon:
“I will try and make peace between North and South Korea”“I will make a big dinner for the foreigners. I hope they will enjoy the food”“I hope all the Russian guys and the American guys will like my singing.”“I think I will be okay in space [...]
Hong Kong actor Tony Leung with Jeon Do-Yeon as best actor and actress
Lee Chang-dong’s picture Secret Sunshine has won in the best picture category at the 2008 Asian Film Awards. Jeon Do-yeon has also won “best actress” for her role in the film. Congratulations to all.
As a follow up of events in Tibet, here is an interesting article from the NY Times and a report of blocking news sources from reporting on Tibet.
Update: Chinese police fired on protesters in Machu today. The Dalai Lama also said “he was opposed to using violence against Tibet’s Chinese rulers and said he [...]
Currently G.W. Bush’s use of executive privilege to prevent information from being revealed, is one way to hide things but here in Seoul, Roh seems to have used a recently passed law (2007, April) to place many records from the his administration in a Presidential Repository of Hidden Things, where only a high court warrant, [...]
The Tibetan people have had enough and are protesting Chinese occupation and, in response, the Chinese Army and security people are surrounding monasteries and chaos reigns. Here are some pictures and a first-hand account of the on-going protests against Chinese repression..
Update:
03.15.08 — The Chinese Government has begun expanding its efforts to suppress protest over Tibet [...]
My favorite Korean contributor to the New York Times, Choe Sang-Hun, has penned another article on LMB’s canal mania. It is sad to read such unrealistic comments like:
The canal will bring prosperity back to our town, It will put our town on the map. People will start moving in. They’ll no longer put [...]
Roh’s aides apparently sabotaged the Blue House’s in-house computerized database. Maybe they were working for the Japanese all along . . .
There seems to be a plan now for American servicemen to bring their families with them while on their tour in South Korea. Involuntary tourism is a great thing for Korea after all.
Unsuk Chin, a successful Korean composer, from Seoul National University who later studied with Gyorgy Ligeti, will be coming to Seoul next month for a video presentation of her opera, Alice in Wonderland at Kumho Art Hall. Chin’s latest orchestra piece, Rocana, just received its New York premiere, with Kent Nagano conducting. Below [...]
Information and its dissemination is a very important thing since it shapes pubic opinion; opinion from which a democratic leader must take their cues from. As can be demonstrated in China, the control of information is synonymous to the control of a nation’s people and helps maintain their legitimacy (having an army with guns [...]
Per a general manager at Samsung Electronics:
“Samsung is in trouble now, trapped by the corruption scandal. I hope the current crisis will bring some changes in the mindset and attitudes of management.”
Maybe not.
Bjork surprised her Chinese fans by shouting “Tibet! Tibet!” after her song “Declare Independence”. The audience did not react but was uncomfortable with this and left quicker than usual.
Updated: The Chinese Cultural Ministry has declared that they will “impose stricter rules on singers and pop stars” claiming that Bjork broke Chinese law — as if [...]
While people have been sorting through candidates in America, Americans have had much consideration of where they went dead wrong during the last eight years. Amongst the dialog, there is one blog comment that caught my attention because one commenter made a comparison between Roh Mu-Hyan and Barack Obama that caught my eye:
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The NY Times blog has a little video of an empty North Korean Banquet hall, from a VBS documentary called, “The Vice Guide to North Korea”.
There is more on the VBS documentary here.
