Seoul Metro Police’s cybercrimes division has identified a 32-year-old Korean-American by the name of Jang as the one who recently uploaded a video that he claimed showed riot cops using water cannons and members of the infamous “White Skull Unit” cracking down on anti-US beef protesters in Gwanghwamun.
The video, accompanied by an exhortation for protesters [...]
The Metropolitician failed to see the humor in a cartoon to which I linked earlier. Anyway, he’s looking to illustrate — literally, in this case — a point, but needs the help of a cartoonist to do it:
I wrote a comment on his blog asking how Koreans would feel if American newspapers and bloggers started [...]
A Korean blogger and online artist has created some characters to represent “the outrages committed by foreign teachers in Korea after they’ve smoked pot and drank.”
Well, surely, you’d have to admit a couple of bottles of soju or a fat Phillie blunt (no offense to Vancouverites) would make class go much easier.
Apparently it’s no longer safe to bring your family to the baseball game anymore thanks to drunk foreign men.
Not to defend my jackass dongpo, but when I think about how well the behaved Samsung Lion fans treated Lotte’s Felix Jose in the 1999 playoffs, I’ve just got to laugh.
Korean netizens are a tad upset after a photo of a young English teacher with his students juxtaposed with a photo of the same teacher at a club in the embrace of three Asian — possibly Korean — women found their way onto the Internet.
Korea’s diligent netizens found the photos and posted them on Daum [...]
John Kennedy of Globalvoicesonline.org has posted interesting look at a Chinese exchange troll, allegedly living here in Korea, who claims that Koreans are now persecuting Chinese students — the same ones who were only trying to protect the “sacred flame” (sure). While this poster’s grasp on reality is blatantly distorted, some of the Chinese [...]
As reported in two Chosun Ilbo articles, Koreans may be “going overboard” with mad cow disease. “PD Diary”, the famous MBC current affairs program, has claimed that 94 percent of Koreans have a “special” gene that makes them more susceptible to getting Mad Cow Disease vs. regular Americans or Britons (Canucks, Kiwis and Aussies were, [...]
The Foreign Ministry says it will tighten entry visa regulations for Chinese students entering Korea:
“We are going to talk with the related authorities over steps to toughen the issuance of entry visas for Chinese students and other Chinese people,” said Moon Tae-young, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The tough stance comes [...]
The Hankyoreh talked with Chinese students about Sunday’s ugliness, and found that while most expressed regret about the violence, they also felt they were being unfairly singled out:
Concerning the violent situation that took place during the Olympic torch relay on April 27, Chinese students and other Chinese generally expressed “regret.” But they also protested that [...]
The fallout from the Chinese student riot continues.
The Chinese ambassador to Seoul offered as close to an apology as one would expect in this situation (AP):
China’s ambassador to Seoul, Ning Fukui, said he regretted the “extreme behavior” of the Chinese protesters and offered sympathy to wounded South Koreans, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said.
If Beijing [...]
Oddly, the government has not been amused with gangs of punky young foreigners running riot in the heart of the national capital — the government has decided to deal with the rioters in stern fashion, including deportations.
In a Cabinet meeting today, Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said, “As the pride of our citizens has been hurt [...]
Korean news photos of the torch relay are circulating on Chinese news forums and blogs. The reaction is mostly patriotic chest-thumping over the sea of red in Seoul and indignation at the pro-Tibet and NK human rights protesters for disrupting the relay. Some commenters are furious at the Korean media’s “distorted reporting.” [...]
Civic groups are accusing the Chinese embassy of organizing the Chinese protesters that ran riot in Seoul on Sunday, reports YTN.
In particular, the embassy is accused of sending text messages, letters and making phone calls to Chinese students, asking them to participate.
Chinese students who participated, however, deny this, claiming they got involved through overseas student [...]
The Foreign Ministry gave the Chinese ambassador to Seoul as close to a dressing down as the Foreign Ministry is prepared to give the Chinese, expressing “strong regret” about Chinese youth running riot in Seoul yesterday.
The Chinese ambassador, for his part, expressed his regret and condolences over the reporter and cop that got hurt by [...]
Sorry, Joshua, I just couldn’t resist:
From Yonhap.
Oh, and if the hapless Americans/Canadians who got assaulted by the Chinese yesterday are reading this, your plight was reported in the very right-wing Korean online paper FreeZone, which, if you’re anything like the pro-Tibet people I knew in the States, is probably the last place you wanted your [...]
More stuff along the same lines of what Sonagi and Elgin posted — our Chinese friends got a bit rough yesterday, scaring and otherwise pissing off a good many Koreans.
First, there were the Chinese throwing water bottles, sticks and stones at activists from a North Korean refugee rights group at Olympic Park. One reporter working [...]
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