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February 24th, 2008 at 9:58 am

ROK Drop Weekly Linklets - 24FEB08

The Koreas
-  The oldest photos ever of Korea from 1863 have been published
-  I can’t say I have ever drank 4 bottles of soju in one night.   
Bad news for flashers in Seoul. 
-  9/11, Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto, the killing fields, Hiroshima, and Namdaemun.
-  What is with all those girls leaving fingerprints on the cars?  
-  Yes, you have to love Konglish fashion.
-  It looks like The Chaser will be a Korean movie I will have to check out this year.
Video of naked graduation antics that has many Koreans alarmed.
-  Long time K-blogger Mark has a podcast posted on Michael Hurt’s new podcasting site Bomb English that everyone should check out.
-  Yes the Pittsburgh Pirates are really screwed this year

Japan
-  For those who have been following the Gerry Bevers saga, he now has an article published in a Japanese newspaper.
-  Toxic South Korean trash floating up on Japanese shores is making more headlines in Japan.
-  Takeshima Day was this week and of course the usual suspects were pissed off.
-  A new fad in Japan is to pay foreigners to be best men at Japanese weddings.

China
-  So is the Japanese missile defense program directed towards North Korea or China?
-  Foreign cartoons the latest thing to be restricted in China.
-  First China had the tiger hoax and now there is the antelope hoax.

Milblogs
-  General Obama just continues to make himself look more and more idiotic whenever he talks about the military.
-  Missing Egyptian cargo ship has a lot of people asking questions.
-  It doesn’t look like Mookie is going to be in he crosshairs anytime soon.
-  One shot one kill

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