The Koreas

• If you have ever wondered what Michael Hurt would look like on TV well here is your chance because he had quite a good feature over on KBS this week.
• The Queerean has a question for The Korean. Pretty good read.
• Great read on how South Korea is subsidizing empty trains to North Korea.
• Should everyone be outraged by these distortions of American culture by Korea?
• Sokcho had the honor of hosting a spy astronaut trainee this week.
• That didn’t take long, despite the US beef protest nonsense this past summer, US beef now nearly makes up half of the imported beef market in Korea.
• Korea’s 100,000 won terrorist.
• Of course the most read story over at Naver this week would be something about Dokdo.
• Speaking of Dokdo here is even more Dokdo nonsense.
• This is definitely one of the worst Korean weddings I have heard of any expat attending.

Japan

• The Japanese Prime Minister has journalists asking him questions as if he is Sarah Palin.
• This J-Babe of the Week doesn’t compare to last weeks.
• Can you believe that this week is the ten year anniversary of when the first Japanese song could be legally played in Korea?
• Does Japanese manga inspire murder?
• Few expats took part in this year’s Yamanote Halloween Train party.
• There has been a decline in Japanese tourists to America, but it appears the falling dollar may solve that problem.

China

• It looks like sexual networking is something not being censored on the Chinese Internet.
• China has issued a report critical of human rights in the United States.
• What a Chinese woman thinks about the possibility of a black president in America.
• A follow up report on the Chinese peasant girl story that continues to make news in China.