The Chosun Ilbo’s online edition is featuring stories on the lack of respect for the authority of the police in Korea. The main story details examples of people assaulting the police and not being arrested and teenagers sniggering at the police on the internet. A related story compares how the police deal with [...]
UPDATE 2 (by Robert J. Koehler): Yonhap News is also on the story.
UPDATE: There is an hour-long interview with Stephannie White at SeoulPodcast. It’s well worth a listen. Stephannie provides a very detailed and disturbing account of the whole evening, including concerns about the medical treatment administered to Michael by the responding EMTs and at [...]
Students of Korean history at George Washington University have posted videos relating to the Gwangju Uprising, including a video compilation of evening news segments from the big three, CBS, NBC, and ABC.
HT to day4night.
Among a Chinese blog collection of photos of Beichuan near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake is a sad, sad photo of a deceased girl with one leg protruding from a pancaked stack of concrete that used to be Beichuan Middle School (note: a Chinese middle school is the equivalent to a North American high [...]
An ABC news video showing a masked gunman entering the LA County store of 51-year-old Hye-sook Roh and shooting her three times before robbing the store. In the video, a customer sobs as she recalls the friendly manner of Ms. Roh, who had been robbed three times before. The video is getting lots [...]
Dear Korean-speaking Marmot readers,
I’m looking to add to my blog favorites a few good Korean language blogs that post on a variety of topics, attract some informed, reasoned commenters, and get a large number of hits. Your recommendations are most welcome.
Last year the city of Boston began transliterating candidates’ names on local ballots, and now the city council is petitioning for names on state and federal ballots to be written in Chinese characters, also.
“It’s just a very basic right,” said Lydia Lowe, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association, which is pushing the vote. “Why [...]
When is a kid getting a bloody nose after being hit by a golf ball a newsworthy event? When the child is Japanese and the golfer a US service member stationed in Japan.
HT to ROKdrop.
Check out the collection of parodies of movie posters designed to popularize the anti-US beef movement at Gusts of Popular Feeling.
Update: Globalwatch.org has a fascinating read on the heroic story of Qinglong County and its wise and cautious officials who saved all 490,000 residents, except for one person who died of a heart attack, by heeding early warnings of the massive July 28, 1976 quake that killed 280,000 people in the Tangshan area. [...]
Sheyla Hershey wasn’t satisifed with her record-breaking FFF silicone bags, the world’s largest, but the state of Texas forbids implants larger than 1,000ccs per breast, so Sheyla, who aspired to look like Dolly Parton since she was 9, became a medical tourist and had her wish granted by doctors in Brazil. No post-surgery photos [...]
100 images added to Flickr courtesy of commenter Gillian. Thanks for the link!
Saddam Hussein’s diaries have revealed that the late dictator feared catching AIDS in prison:
When Saddam found out his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop, according to the excerpts.
“I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people’s diseases,” [...]
In this editorial on the controversy over US beef imports and the recent related MBC program, the editorial staff at the Chosun put the danger of contracting vCJD into perspective:
미국 쇠고기 반대운동을 벌이는 세력들의 거짓과 논리적 모순과 위선(僞善)은 한두 가지가 아니다. 우리 국민 1000만 명 가까이가 매년 광우병이 위험하다는 미국과 유럽 일본 지역에 태연히 관광 [...]
From a Chosun Ilbo story on North Korean women making regular trips across the river to sell sex to Chinese villagers:
또 이 같은 이유 때문에 최근 북한에서는 아들보다 딸을 더 선호한다고 한다. 이 여성은 “북조선 인구 비율은 여자가 많은데 여자들의 살림가치가 높아서 딸을 좋아한다”며 “북조선에서는 여자들이 없으면 못 벌어 먹으며 이 때문에 북조선 남자들은 집 [...]
A 57-year-old civil servant in the city of Kinokawa in southern Japan was demoted and given a pay decrease after it was discovered that he had been surfing porn all day long, visiting websites more than 780,000 times over a nine-month period. July was his busiest month, clocking in more than 177,000 visits, which [...]
You can experience this Korean delicacy vicariously at the Shangaiist. If mollusks could scream, I don’t think this dish would be so popular. On second thought, maybe it would be even more so.
Daai Tou Lam Diary is a quiet C-blog written by an American resident of Hong Kong. As he is fluent in Chinese, his posts often contain translations from the local Hong Kong media, and he is very critical of the Chinese government. A recent post on the Carrefour boycott drew this conclusion:
As anyone [...]
Korean news photos of the torch relay are circulating on Chinese news forums and blogs. The reaction is mostly patriotic chest-thumping over the sea of red in Seoul and indignation at the pro-Tibet and NK human rights protesters for disrupting the relay. Some commenters are furious at the Korean media’s “distorted reporting.” [...]
