ROK Drop

By on October 28th, 2007 at 11:03 am

ROK Drop Weekly Linklets – 28OCT07

The Koreas
Google Earth images of the before and after the North Korean nuclear facility have been published.
-  It is about time Seoul did this.  Now how about the rest of the country. 
-  A possible design flaw of the Korean Love Chair has been found. 
Interesting posting about the admissibility of hearsay evidence in Korean courts.
-  A non-"low quality foreign English teacher" has been arrested with $1.5 millon dollars worth of drugs at Incheon airport.
-  Found a few more interesting K-blogs through this link.  
-  Here is a pimped out car you don’t see every day on the streets of Seoul.
-  Here is a good idea for a quit smoking campaign in Korea.

Japan
-  If you don’t agree with Japan’s decision to fingerprint all foreigners entering the country there is a petition you can sign here.
This is what happens on Tokyo’s Yamanote Line on Halloween. Could you imagine what the reaction would be if someone tried to organize something like this for Seoul?
-  How long will it be before some Korean nationalist finds out about this?
-  Here is a good posting on how academia knows nothing about sports in NE Asia.

China
-  The world’s most dangerous hiking trail can be found in China.  You have to see it to believe it. 
-  If you thought the Chinese were upset about the Dali Lama visiting the US just imagine there reaction next month when he visits Japan.
-  The Chinese can’t complain to much though because the Japanese have more than made up for it by sending her to China.   

Milblogs
There is a surprise runaway presidential candidate from a straw poll being conducted with American soldiers in Iraq.
This is funny, the State Department is forcing employees to deploy to Iraq for a year but they don’t want to deploy because they probably won’t have Blackwater protecting them. 
-  You can’t make this stuff up, Blackwater set the California wildfires
Here is a story the media will never tell you in regards to the California wildfires.
Keep after them Colonel Boylan.
Michael Yon telling it like it is.
Defining hearts and minds.
-  A challenge to The New Republic.
Here is your typical mainstream journalist in action in Iraq. 

Forward Deployed
Asia Times Astroturfing Campaign Uncovered
Is this the Final Chapter of the Beauchamp Saga?
Army Military Transition Teams Face Recruiting Challenges
Al Qaeda in Iraq Launches New Recruiting Campaign
Is Turkish Invasion of Northern Iraq Imminent
Army Strong with Tila Tequila
Setting Conditions for Victory in Iraq
Attacking General Petraeus’ Combat Action Badge
Measuring Enthusiasm
Engaging the Enemy

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  • Kevin Kim
    5:38 am on October 28th, 2007 1

    Thanks for the mention!

    Hope all's well.

    Kevin

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  • Kingkitty
    9:13 pm on October 28th, 2007 3

    If there is one thing I really noticed in Korea and that is the lack of trash cans. Even on base sometimes you want to toss out something and there is no trash can

  • GI Korea
    10:50 pm on October 28th, 2007 4

    I never really had problems finding a trash can on post but off post they limit the trash cans because to many people will dump the trash from their homes in them to save money.

    So when these new trash cans are emplaced in Seoul they have to be a type that will not allow someone to dump an entire garbage bag from their house in them.

 

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