Well, this is an ugly scene [KBS, Korean]—a bereaved family fighting with hospital staff and police in a hospital lobby over the body of a 14-year-old girl who had died on the operating table.
The girl had gone in for surgery to treat a broken arm caused by a benign tumor, but died during the operation. [...]
Korean netizens and bloggers are having a grand old time comparing wildly popular “Prison Break” with life in the ROK Army [Sports Seoul, Korean]. And on another “Prison Break” note, veteran actress Kim Su-mi apparently digs Michael Scofield [Star News, Korean]… which kind of gives me the creeps.
And in more news from the “most wired nation on the planet,” the Defense Security Command has asked the Minstry of Information and Communication (MIC) to block 32 pro-North Korean websites [Korea Times]. Of course, the MIC might be a bit busy with its current war against foreign porn sites [Korea Times] in the [...]
A Japanese netizen has caught the JoongAng Ilbo’s attention [JoongAng Ilbo, Korean] by uploading a Youtube video (actually produced by an American) describing Koreans as “savages who eat dogs.” 594 comments and counting!
VANK engaging in self-parody [Korea Times]. HT to Lost Nomad.
A certain Korean company has developed a way to discourage kids from playing computer games too long by the use of a subliminal message that would discourage excessive play.
This reminds me of the 1974 ban, in America, on subliminal messages in broadcasting that was enacted by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), since they felt [...]
Over at Salon, Andrew Leonard looks at the Sino-Korean Wiki-War over Goguryeo [Salon.com]. Be sure to read it in its entirety, but allow me to reprint the money shot:
Critics of Wikipedia are wont to point a finger at amateur authorship as a reason to distrust its veracity. Paradoxically, I find the lack of central authority [...]
If you use eMule, you’ll notice this notice if you use the popular DonkeyServer No. 1 server:
Important notice to korean users : This server (and others as well) suffers from a virus attack from Korea and will shutdown in few days.Korean users seems to be very stupid people ?, sorry, but the whole network suffers [...]
The Seoul Shinmun recoils in horror as some Korean netizens target (in Korean) independence activist Yun Bong-gil, calling him a “terrorist”:
Malicious comments by netizens have gone past the danger level and are reaching an extreme. The arrow of malicious comments, recently fired at popular entertainers, have now reached such a serious state that they’re [...]
God, I love this place.
Yonhap is reporting that Chinese netizens are pissed off at what they consider historical distortions in the Korean historical dramas “Jumong” and “Taewang Sasingi.”
According to a Hong Kong current events weekly, Chinese netizens are criticizing the MBC drama “Jumong” for distorting history. “Jumong,” strangely enough, deals with the life of [...]
Busan-based English teacher Steve Schertzer apparently doesn’t like Pusanweb:
Thank God most Koreans don’t understand English. Thank God that the majority of Korean students can’t read English beyond an elementary level. Thank God that most Koreans, while technologically savvy, don’t peruse native English teacher Web sites like www.pusanweb.com here in Korea. If Koreans did possess an [...]
Korean bloggers are learning that speaking your mind can have consequences.
The Korea Times on cyber-assault: “Nothing, however, could be as serious_and fatal_as the barrage of verbal abuses and character assassinations posted on the Web, mainly targeting celebrities. People who post these attacks, if and when they lead to victims’ deaths, are murderers and they should be punished as such.”
Hey, look, I wasn’t the only one who thought the ROK Special Forces-snow-bathing photos were cool.
Da Chosun ran a very interesting piece on Kim Yu-shik, the CEO of website DCInside, one of the major players in the Korean netizen world. What I didn’t know is that Kim was arrested in 1996 on suspicion of spying for North Korea. Turns out he was, in fact, dealing in sensitive material—Japanese [...]
Suwon mayor Kim Yong-seo (GNP) and a party of seven or eight other Suwon officials are getting lambasted by Suwon citizens, netizens and the Uri Party for their “disgraceful” behavior in Doha, the Qatari capital hosting the Asian Games.
According to an exclusive report by NoCut News, the party showed up at the Korean men’s basketball [...]
I was just in Kyobo Book Store leafing through the American pop best seller “America (the book)” by John Stewart. It has its funny moments, including a chapter on the rest of the world. I hope the VANK does not see the book because it has a picture similar to this representing Japan’s bullet train:
For [...]
Korea’s online community is working itself into an outrage over the outrageous manner in which a female staffer at the South Korean embassy in Beijing treated Korean War POW Chang Mu-hwan when he called for help after escaping from North Korea in 1998.
Give a listen to the conversation via YTN.
The Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, says the [...]
