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 [...]
Korea’s rape rate is the highest in the world. And because of jealousy and delusions about Japan, they are making up history
(introduction to Korea at linkflash.hp.infoseek.co.jp)
Korea. Land of the Morning Calm, and Land of the Nightime Ecstasy. Land of the yobo.* Where women really know how to fuck. Plain and simple, these girls are the [...]
It seems Da’ Netizens have tattled on Gerry, who as you know writes quite a bit on Dokdo over at Occidentalism. In his last post, Gerry says the president of the university at which he works has asked him to stop posting on Dokdo on the Internet:
I had planned to write two more pieces for [...]
Lisa Vershbow has been the target of, ahem, critical opinion by netizens regarding her activities here in Korea.
From the WSJ:
The most devoted uploader [to YouTube] is Christy Leigh Stewart, a 21-year-old college student who lives near Modesto, Calif., and who has so far uploaded nearly 2,000 videos. Nearly all involve Korean pop music, a passion of Ms. Stewart. Indeed, she says the main reason she spends too much time with YouTube is [...]
Yonhap is reporting that a Korean female university student working as a volunteer at a music festival in Tsushima Island was beaten and sexually assaulted by a male Japanese student/part-time employee at the festival venue.
Now, aside from the fact that this was one of the most-looked at pieces over at Naver.com, it’s also the first [...]
Proving the amazing power of Robert Koehler’s Marmot’s Hole, today’s Sakkeon-eui Nae-Mak (사건의 내막 — “Inside Story”?) one of the sleazy tabloid newspapers I like to read on the subway coming home after work (my chauffeur is on holiday), has as its front-page feature (including photos lifted from his site) the scandal of ruggedly-handsome serial-killer [...]
In the IHT, veteran journalist Choe Sang-hun discusses Korea’s unfortunately notorious netizen community and the government’s moves to limit cyberviolence:
In South Korea, which has one of the world’s most developed Internet communities, the problem known as “cyberviolence” has reached frightening proportions, officials say.
Complaints filed with the government’s Korea Internet Safety Commission more than doubled to [...]
Sometimes, it’s easy to see how North Korean rhetorical style might speak to certain people.
The beta version of SK Communication’s Cyworld USA is open for business, so don’t just read about it—run on over now and get your minihompi.
(HT to Younghusband)
A very creative Photoshop artist has given the MBC historical drama “Jumong” a Hollywood touch.
