The Koreas

• The Sunshine Death Watch continues.
• Gwangju will host the 2015 Universiade.
• There is a fake tits and bug eyes festival going on in Gwanju as well.
• It looks like convenience stores are beginning to put the mom and pop shops out of business in Korea.
• Gusts wrote earlier this week an incredibly timely article on stopping suicides in Korea.
• Gusts also has a great post on the 29th Anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising.
• Here is another good post on the Gwangju Uprising.
• Got questions about ATEK?
• The women of Kim Jong-il.
• How not to pay for study abroad.
• ROK Drop certified useful idiot Mike Honda is causing trouble again.
• The construction boom times continue in North Korea.
• Ever wonder why Korean women have scars on their arms?

Japan

• Is Japan racist, inward, and conservative?
• All you ever wanted to know about Japanese wasabi.
• She makes me want to go swimming as well.
• iBonsai
• Paul Krugman is in Japan giving economic advice.
• Who would have ever suspected that when Bobby Valentine went to Japan he would become their most popular foreign baseball icon?
• What happens when you get caught for speeding in Japan.

China

• Can we call this swine flu diplomacy?
• China’s first female helicopter pilots.
• Shocking story on what is going on in China’s rural interior.
• Using Tianamen to sell newspapers.
• Sexual harassment defined in China.