By The Koreas
- Does Asiana Airlines discriminate against Chinese passengers?
- Does anyone believe that 20% of Busan secondary students are involved in the sex trade?
- The first snow of the year falls in Pyeongyang.
- Interesting look at how many foreign mothers in Korea cannot speak Korean.
- This is an interesting decision; foreigners cannot be deported from Korea now if you test positive for HIV.
- The new guard of Dokdo.
- What “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” and the Virginia Tech massacre have to do with each other.
- Gees I have never seen someone get attacked like this before for simply donating to charity.
- So sue me.
Japan
- Yes I have to agree that Yukie Kawamura is talent with a capitol T.
- Nothing like some vintage Weird Al on Japanese television.
- Fukuoka city has found another way to make money from Korean tourists.
- The yearly anti-whaling hijinks from everyone’s favorite eco-loons appears to be scaled back this year.
- I thought this new Japanese craze was already popular in rap videos?
- I guess when you got to go, you got to go.
China
- Trade between China and North Korea has plunged in the wake of the financial crisis.
- Playing ping pong with nunchucks.
- Maybe Michael Vick should of opened his kennel in China.
- These pictures of rioters in northern China look like a protest that could of happened in Korea in the 1980′s.
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12:01 pm on November 23rd, 2008 1
The article on "Trade with North Korea" was stunning in its complete collapse of trade of minerals between the two countries.(China and North Korea) This is perhaps North Koreas major source of legitimate income and likely employs 10s of thousands of people. Please read "previous reports". It would appear from the two articles that things are rapidly turning for the worse in North Korea. South Korea "wake up", your "I love you, you love me, North Korea we don't want to see" isn't going to work if the north implodes.
12:38 pm on November 23rd, 2008 2
If you read Matt of Popular Gusts' post on high school students and the sex trade, you will find that it is not 20% of all high school students, but 20% of the 33% who had been propositioned. Matt did the math and came up with an overall estimated figure of 6%.
As for the Asiana story, I think it is most likely yet another anti-Korean internet hoax being spread around by imaginative Chinese netizens. If I have time later this week, I'll track down the source.