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North Korean Dancing Girls 24 May 2007 | 10:39 pm
An interesting old video of some North Korean dancers performing for tourists:
South Korea’ VANK Ultra-Nationalists vs. The SAT 24 May 2007 | 10:12 pm
From Yonhap: SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) — A U.S. history textbook for Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has wrongly identified Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.-A.D.935) as Korea’s first national entity without mentio...
Wacky Historical Theories of Racial Superiority: Now on Korean TV 15 May 2007 | 10:49 am
The English subtitles say it was made by KBS, but the logo in the corner looks a lot like the History Channel: “According to this viewpoint, the Sumerian tribe who established the Mesopotamiam civili...
S. Korea to give N. Korea a wad of cash… 12 Mar 2007 | 10:45 am
From the Chosun Ilbo: South Korea has for the first time in history officially decided to give cash to North Korea, in the amount of W400 million (US$1=W945). In 2000, the South Korean government sec...
Roh drives Koreans to the right 6 Mar 2007 | 06:36 pm
There is an interesting article today in the conservative Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo about how conservative viewpoints among South Koreans has increased since President Roh came to power in 2003: W...
Asian Weekly apologizes after running an editorial entitled “Why I Hate Blacks” 1 Mar 2007 | 03:40 pm
AsiaWeek, a San Francisco-based newspaper for the Asian American community, has apologized for printing an editorial called “Why I Hate Blacks” in its February 23, 2007 issue: The editor of a weekly ...
South Korea Ranks Shameful Last in Foreign Aid 27 Feb 2007 | 01:31 pm
I guess Ban Ki-Moon’s timely increase of aid to nations who ended up voting him into office as UN Secretary General didn’t have much effect on South Korea’s overall policy of not giving much foreign a...
Dokdo vs. Takeshima Documentary 25 Feb 2007 | 06:20 pm
I just found this English language Dokdo/Takeshima documentary on YouTube. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but here it is: Part 1 Part 2 A few comments after watching the video: Students a...
Tokyo is Our Territory - Korean rapper G-Masta 25 Feb 2007 | 06:18 pm
A interesting music video created by a Japanese netizen that takes an anti-Japanese rap song by Korean singer G-Masta and adds English subtitles and extreme images of Korean nationalist propaganda/cop...
Lolita Syndome: not an excuse for sexually assaulting little girls 25 Feb 2007 | 06:04 pm
An interesting/bizarre articles from the Chosun Ilbo: Supreme Court Rejects ‘Lolita Syndrome’ Defense The Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment a serial child rapist who had earlie...
