The Koreas:

• Korea Beat has the Top 10 Naver news stories of the week.
• Speaking of Naver they are officially the top email service in Korea now.
• Long time K-blogger Michael Hurt currently has an article about his photography work on the front page of Daum.
• You can see his work over at Feet Man Seoul which he currently has pictures from the Kangnam Fashion Festival posted which includes pictures of Andre Kim.
• More melamine from tainted Chinese milk is turning up in Korean products.  Where are the candlelight girls when you need them?
• The Confederates are going to rise again, but this time in South Korea?
• Just what every Korean nationalist needs, Dokdo cigarettes!
• If you are wondering why English speaking lawyers in Korea are not in a hurry to represent expat English teachers who get in trouble, here is your answer.
• I can’t believe it took this long for the Korean government to implement stricter information security standards as well restricting Internet and email access on all its government employees.
• A construction boom is currently underway in Pyongyang?
• The South Korean government is busy going after Pro-North Korean groups posting information on the Internet.

Japan

• This is the dumbest idea I have seen yet to combat global warming.
• It looks like the likely new Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has plans to watch North Korea like a hawk.
• It looks like Ampontan has pissed off an Australian news reporter.
• I don’t think this is racist, I think it is just dumb.
• There is currently a Korea-Japan friendship festival being held in Seoul.

China

• Here is a listing of China’s Top 10 bloggers with the top blogger receiving 210 million page views.
• The Chinese have conducted their first ever space walk.
• Hopefully these astronauts didn’t bring any Chinese powdered milk with them.
• This is one sad story about a poor girl in China.
• Here is another sad story about a poor 12 year old Chinese girl forced to become a sex slave.