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Korea Beat » Chosun Ilbo Finds Two Unqualified Teachers

Posted 18 minutes ago

Read it and weep, folks. Chosun.com research has uncovered a case where a foreigner who had committed a crime in her native country was able to enter the country and work at a domestic university, and another where a foreign ... [Link]

자아만족 나들이 » 느티나무골육교

Posted 74 minutes ago

수원 영통신도시 중심가에 위치한 느티나무골육교.. 인근에 있는 영통느티나무에서 이름을 따온것 같네요~ 하지만 외관은 수원시의 자랑이자 세계문화유산으로 등재된 수원화성의 모습을 하고 있다는 것이죠. 육교 광장에는 대형 해시계가 꾸며져 있습니다. 영통 신도시 중심가에 있어서 그런지 주변에는 유흥가가 가득하네요^^ 육교 한편에는 산책로도 꾸며져 ... [Link]

Taki’s Magazine » The Sarah Palin show ends with a twist?

Posted 4 hours ago

Well, since she’s resigning as governor of Alaska, perhaps she could relocate to South Carolina and contest the 2010 race? After the Vanity Fair hit-piece and the interview with Runner’s World I wouldn’t have expected her to withdraw from the ... [Link]

ROK Drop » Will the US Military Ban Smoking?

Posted 5 hours ago

All I have to say is good luck with this: A complete ban on tobacco in the military is needed but would likely take about 20 years, according to a new Institute of Medicine study commissioned by the departments of ... [Link]

ComingAnarchy.com » Microstate Madness – Europe in 2020

Posted 6 hours ago

Building on one of my favorite subjects, devolution, the decline of the state and the proliferation of microstates, I’ve put together a map of the future of Europe in 2020. It is purely speculative and in no way a firm ... [Link]

Gypsy Scholar » Bernstein on Kolakowski's "Big Lie"

Posted 6 hours ago

Richard Bernstein(Master Media Speakers Bureau)I guess that mainstream media ain't dead yet, or I wouldn't be learning so much from it. Yesterday was Ignatius applying Dostoyevsky to Putin; today is Bernstein applying Kolakowski to Iran.I first read Leszek Kolakowski in ... [Link]

One Free Korea » Kremlinology Update

Posted 7 hours ago

Kim Jong-Il’s third son, the likely successor to the North Korean leader, has been appointed acting defence chief under his ailing father, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday. Kim Jong-Un started supporting his father as acting chairman of North Korea’s ... [Link]

Foreign Dispatches » The Megan Fox of Politics

Posted 7 hours ago

After reading about yet another dumb utterance issuing from the mouth of Transformers starlet Megan Fox, and subsequently reading yet another revealing article about the snowbilly from Wasilla, a revelation struck me: Sarah Palin is to American politics precisely what ... [Link]

Far Outliers » A Costly Victory in Sri Lanka

Posted 7 hours ago

Writing in The Atlantic, Robert Kaplan offers an awfully grim retrospective on how Sri Lanka won its 26-year war against the Tamil Tigers.Though it was only a one-day news story in the United States, a momentous event occurred last spring, ... [Link]

ROK Drop » Picture of the Day: Guus Hiddink In Incheon

Posted 8 hours ago

Hiddink named goodwill ambassador of Incheon fest: Incheon Mayor Ahn Sang-soo, left, and Guus Hiddink, who led the South Korean national football team to the semifinals of the 2002 World Cup, pose with a soccer ball after the appointment of ... [Link]

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