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Taki’s Magazine » Quit Blaming Wall Street

Posted 38 minutes ago

Much as it pains me to do so I fear that I must praise a left leaning economist. Dean Baker, please stand up and take your bow. He’s told the truth, always a bad career move in the political arena, about the current financial crisis and recession. We’re not deep in the economic doo doo because Wall Streeters are greedy, ... [Link]

Taki’s Magazine » Musings from Gstaad, and Other Heavenly Ski Runs

Posted 38 minutes ago

Gstaad. A lovely liquid lunch in a mountain hut with my friend Nicola Anouilh after two hard runs. Blue skies, gentle winds, a few puffs of white cloud, and the sound of bells from the nearby cow shed. If there’s a better way of communing with nature, I haven’t come across it yet. The natural beauty of the Alps is ... [Link]

The Western Confucian » Zubin Mehta Conducts the Filarmonica Arturo Toscani in the Dies Irae and Tuna Mirum From Giuseppe's Verdi's Requiem

Posted 60 minutes ago

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Chris Backe - AKA Chris in South Korea » Destination: Gongsanseong (Gongju)

Posted 102 minutes ago

Gongsanseong (공산성) does not rank high on the 'most seen by foreigners' list. Then again, neither does the city of Gongju. Naturally, the Lady in Red and I had to check it out.Originally called Ungjinseong, the mud fortress was used by King Munjuwang (reigned 475-477 A.D.) as the Baekje capital during the Baekje Dynasty. In 538 A.D., however, King Seong ... [Link]

Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* » Orange County crime story of the day: Ponzi scheme, he wrote.

Posted 2 hours ago

In a follow-up to this story from March 2009 (where Brian in Chŏllanam-do describes his own inclination for murder! Murder!!!) about this news, it looks like the Korean-American couple behind a Ponzi scheme that was ripping off other Korean immigrants have been caught: Federal agents have arrested a couple that ran an Irvine investment firm, saying they were the architects ... [Link]

ROK Drop » Japanese Government Official Is A Truther

Posted 2 hours ago

I been saying this for months how interesting it is the similarities between the prior Roh Moo-hyun government in South Korea and the current Yukio Hatoyama government in Japan. Well like Robert Koehler mentions over at the Marmot’s Hole, not even the Roh government was as wacky as this: YUKIHISA FUJITA is an influential member of the ruling Democratic Party ... [Link]

Brian in Jeollanam-do » Dongguk still bitching about Yale.

Posted 3 hours ago

Atop the Korea Times website is a new article about the disagreement between Dongguk University and Yale:Dongguk University President Oh Young-kyo has called on Yale University to admit its mistake and live up to its reputation. "Yale has a long and proud history that sets an example for other schools," Oh said in an interview with The Korea Times. "This ... [Link]

Brian in Jeollanam-do » Bill Costello really wants you to listen to him.

Posted 3 hours ago

Bill Costello who has an MA in education, is a U.S.-based education columnist, blogger, and author of ``Awaken Your Birdbrain: Using Creativity to Get What You Want." wrote in to the Korea Times, and had "Korean Teachers Reach for the SKY" published on the website on the 5th. Give it a read if you want, it's pretty short; here's an ... [Link]

Ask a Korean! » No title

Posted 4 hours ago

This is cool -- one of the flight attendants who subdued the Christmas day underpants bomber in Detroit is a Korean American named Richard Cho, who received a thank you letter from Barack Obama for his heroics. [Link]

The Western Confucian » Kim Kil-tae: Sex-Selective Abortion Rears Its Ugly Head

Posted 5 hours ago

Pictured above is "[t]he 33-year-old convicted rapist who allegedly sexually assaulted and killed a middle-school girl in Busan" and left his victim (may God rest her young soul) "dead and naked inside a water tank" — Suspected murderer and rapist captured in Busan. The girl "disappeared from her home" and "there was evidence of a break-in." "She was strangled to ... [Link]

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