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ROK Drop

February 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am

ROK Drop Weekly Linklets - 03FEB08

The Koreas
- Kim Chang-won who blogs at Web 2.0 Asia has a nice podcast and slide show featured on CNN’s website that is worth checking out. 
- Here is one thing I have never done in Korea, go to a shooting range.  Some hilarious targets they shoot at.
- President Roh’s engagement logic.
- Us versus Them 
- Getting locked out of  the educational system in Korea, literally.
- If you think living in some of the small apartments in Korea is bad, how about living in a train. 
- Korean prostitutes flooding to Japan?  I’m shocked I tell you!
- A former Ms. Korea has been accepted to attend MIT.
- Some pretty good pictures from Busan.  I especially liked the first one. 
- Interesting poll about opinions from policy makers about affairs on the Korean peninsula.
- We all know about Konglish, but how about Klogic?

Japan
- A list of the top photos foreign tourists take in Tokyo.
- Excellent posting about sumo wrestling in Japan.  I really need to go and watch a tournament the next time I’m in Japan.
- Cruising for sales or sex in the subway?
- A funny list of the top five mobile phone accessories in Japan.

China
- Panic is spreading in Japan because of contaminated Chinese food imports.
- Food is not the only thing recently found to be contaminated, but even more concerning is that contaminated medicine manufactured in China has been linked to causing paralysis. 
- The Chinese military has deployed 100,000 soldiers to aid with the winter storm relief.  Soldiers are using tanks to break ice on the highways for example.

Milblogs
- Interesting debate about whether military health care should be outsourced.
- The slow decay of the British military.
- Yes, how can you not get pissed off about these people? God, how I dislike hippies.
- All I have to say to the Pentagon is good luck with this.
- Taking some ideas from this guy might help the Pentagon with their mission though. 
- Coincidence?  I think not.
- The NY Times just never learns.
- Michael Yon’s latest RUB dispatch.

Forward Deployed
- Dubious Poll Claims Over One Million People Have Died in Iraq
- AFRICOM Continues to Expand
- George Soros Linked to National Priorities Project Hit Piece
- Demagoging High School Recruiting Rates
- Gadhafi’s Son Accused in Iraq Attack
- Demagoging Veteran Homeless Rate
- George Soros Funds Center for Public Integrity Hit Piece

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