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Daily Roundup: Park and the NIS, BAI BAI Mr. Yang, world’s fastest Interweb, and more 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
I just saw Miley Cyrus’s thing at the VMA. The horror. The horror. Sorry, I just don’t care Sen. John McCain said something or other about North Korea in Seoul yesterday. I don’t care enough about Sen...
Yes, making Hollywood stars do the horse dance is a tad too much 26 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
The Chosun Ilbo’s culture desk takes a look at a new word going ’round the Interweb—gukppong, a portmanteau of gukga (nation) and hiroppong (meth). The gukppong refers to being over-obsessed with matt...
Open Thread: Aug 24, 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 07:38 am
Have a good weekend, folks. If you are completely bored, you can take a look at some shots I took at Unhyeongung last night.
Daily Round-up: Unfair foreign professor hiring, N. Korean swims to freedom, Bob Jenkins and his Japanese cookies, and more 23 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
Foreigners professor hiring standards unfair to Koreans The Seoul Shinmun reports that some folk are upset with the unfair ease with which foreign professors can get hired. For instance, at one colleg...
Don’t blame me. Blame the Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corporation. 23 Aug 2013 | 09:18 am
Ahem… (HT to John)
Daily Round-up: It’s the Japanese people, not the gov’t; Bohai Strait; Park Chan-wook’s crowdsourced film 22 Aug 2013 | 09:35 am
Oh, just in case anyone missed the media display shown at Gwanghwamun over the last week… The Japanese government is not the problem. It’s the Japanese people. That seems to be what the Chosun Ilbo is...
OK, but what’s the deal with the pig? 21 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
Speaking of Perfidious Albion, some Korean-speaking Brit dude named Josh has started a Youtube channel. He’s got a video up where he’s on the street asking real, live Londoners about Korea. (HT to Bre...
Daily Round-up: KT spooks, regionalism, Rising Suns in LA, Thai massages, hookers and shamans, and yes, Poo Wine 21 Aug 2013 | 09:40 am
So, what do former spooks do when they retire? According to the Hankyoreh, they get jobs as advisers to KT. These aren’t just ordinary ex-spooks, either—they are ex-spooks implicated in some of the bi...
Daily Roundup: Non-imported imported beer, North Korea being North Korea, and Ethiopian refugees 20 Aug 2013 | 09:53 am
Firstly, I apologize for the lack of activity over the last week. In addition to being super busy at the office, I’ve been running a bit with the camera, as you might be able to tell from my Tumblr bl...
Open Thread: Aug 17, 2013 17 Aug 2013 | 07:42 am
Hope you all have a good weekend. Oh, and for your listening enjoyment, here’s singer Suck Chan’s 1974 cover of the Gordon Lightfoot classic “Sundown.” (HT to Mark Russell)
