BlackBerry service experienced disruptions in North America and other parts of the world, affecting all of North America and some of the company’s 12 million world-wide subscribers (link updated).
Seoul has apparently decided to take corrective measures — finally — to stop dumping waste in Japanese waters.
just be sure not to call the police over on a domestic violence call.
I am now happy with the prostitution laws after this story pushes my mirth level past the needed quota.
Happy new year! While surfing the net I came across this Dutch (English-language, though) instructional video on how to grow marijuana indoors in an urban environment. It looks too complex and furtive for me; plus, I don’t smoke. But I know a lot of the rest of you do. (If the link doesn’t work, you’ll [...]
Per earlier threads on food culture in Korea as compared to the West, I am glad it does not include diet sodas.
OK, now we’ve got Djamilya in a bikini.
Personally, I hate New England, but still, this kind of makes me sad.
How to say “please help” without sounding weak? Try honesty.
In LA Weekly, Jonathan Gold goes to Mr. Pizza Factory in LA Koreatown. Yummy.
(HT to reader)
Uzbek “Misuda” girl Djamilya — who’s rumored to be something of a wangtta over there — has released a photo series (see also here), which you can see via SKT and, soon, LGT and KTF.
The Dong-A, meanwhile, reports that drug smuggling via international parcel has skyrocketed.
Just in case you didn’t know, Kathleen Stephens — the next US ambassador to Korea — was an English teacher at Yesan Middle School some 33 years ago with the Peace Corps. Yonhap has some warm and fuzzy stuff about that.
If you’d like to install Hangul 2005 (or a 60-day trial version thereof) in Ubuntu — and if you’re an Ubuntu user in Korea, I’ll assume you do — here’s how to do it.
The former chairman of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce thinks Korea’s policies regarding Canadian-made Blackberries, Canadian beef and access to the auto sector are major barriers to the conclusion of a Korea-Canada FTA and hurting bilateral ties.
LMB’s transition team has revealed that it plans to get high schools to teach classes in English, starting with math, science and art. And in related news, the US Department of Education announced today that American high schools will start conducting classes in Wolof.
China seems to be feeling a bit guilty over its faults, thus is lashing out at the Dalai Lama — again — claiming that criticizing China is “inconsistent with the Olympics spirit”. That guilt might explain the renewed interested in propagandizing everything and anything by China.
Boeing plans to throw in a F-15K for free, as part of the deal that will see 20 more F-15Ks inducted into the ROKAF. This will replace the F-15K that crashed into the East Sea, a few years ago. Not so fast, says the Seoul Shinmun. According to it, there is a very big chance that the plane will not [...]
God, I hope Seo Kyoung-duk hasn’t seen this “Bizarre Japanese Sexual Harrassment Training Manual” post — poor man will have a heart attack (HT to Boing Boing and reader)
Two construction workers have been arrested on suspicion of beating their coworker to death because he wouldn’t drink with them.
