By The Koreas
- Solving the case of the missing 22,000 English teachers in Korea.
- One Free Korea has a challenge for everyone, name one time Selig Harrison was right about anything?
- North Korea complains about South’s rocket launch.
- Gangwon-do travel ideas.
- More on ugly English teachers and racist Korean journalists.
- Interesting look at the numbers of foreigners trying to claim refugee status within South Korea.
- A tip on where to find some good Chinese food in Seoul.
- Here is an update on all the SMOE English teachers that were fired before they even got to Korea.
- I will have to check this place out the next time I am in Korea.
- Some Korean Culture 101 classes for everyone.
- The Korean media out spreading lies again, this time about Misuda panelist Vera Hohleiter.
- There appears to have been a violent lovers quarrel between lesbians in Suwon.
- North Korea has been busy executing land reclamation projects.
- A drunken Canadian was arrested for busing up a security camera.
- Why do anti-US Koreans always seem to end up in America?
Japan
- Nice photo essay of Brian In Jeollanam-do’s trip to Japan.
- What your Japanese girlfriend should quit before marriage.
- Japan’s unique spin on Korean BBQ.
- I don’t think this was the smartest thing for this Canadian man to try and do at the Yasukuni Shrine.
- They must be paying Tommy Lee Jones some pretty big money in Japan to make commercials like this.
- How Japanese news is depicting the war in Afghanistan.
- It appears that Koreans aren’t the only ones who have a thing for setting themselves on fire.
- Here is a nice travelog of one man’s hike to the summit of Mt. Fuji.
- Mt. Fuji, Just Say No
China
- Apparently Chinese tourists are staying away from North Korea after its recent nuclear test.
- China’s secretive Defense Ministry has officially launched its first website.
- I guess posting nude photos of yourself online is one way to get people’s attention to look for your lost mother.
- I can’t believe the government would go this much out of their way to intimidate a petitoner?
- Would you consider leaving China simply because of Internet blocks?
- A pretty good video-photo essay of summer in Beijing.
9:30 am on August 23rd, 2009 1
I'm more interested by Vera Hohleiter's claims that Misuda is scripted. The implications are quite serious.
10:05 am on August 23rd, 2009 2
She said in her blog that she never mentioned that particular point. But watching the way Jessica (American, graduated from Columbia) conducted herself on the show with her reactionary comments, I doubt she was working off of a script.
2:52 pm on August 23rd, 2009 3
Thanks for clarifying that for me Alex.
I really need to practice German, but I didn't feel like buying her book to do so.
7:04 pm on August 23rd, 2009 4
Thanks for the links, as always.
I think we need more evidence before we decide whether Misuda is scripted. While I doubt its fully scripted, I:d also be surprised if the women were not being led in a certain direction.
But as is implied on the Dave:s thread on the topic—you:ll notice I can:t use the apostrophe key—perhaps foreign viewers have/had too high expectations for the show, expecting these women to be our spokeswomen when in fact perhaps the show was just out for the entertainment of a few Korean viewers.