By The Koreas
- Since when did the US give up Saipan to Korea?
- It doesn’t look like the French envoy accomplished a whole lot during his visit to North Korea.
- How come I have the feeling this good idea will just turn into wasted money in North Korea?
- There is definitely a glut of airports in Korea not just Jeolla-do.
- Is the Marmot’s Hole comments section out of control?
- Good point, how do you hope to become an international hub if you reject English?
- I don’t think this guy is going to get much sympathy with his suicide note.
- Lee and Obama practicing taekwondo.
- I had no idea David Axelrod was traveling around Asia with President Obama.
- A good example of a socialist hair cut.
- Is there really a lot of alcoholics in Korea?
- 13 year old Korean girl aces the TOEFL iBT.
- The “classy” Korea Times comments board.
Japan
- Japanese doggy style, literally.
- A behind the scenes look at sumo wrestling.
- Odd story about a Chinese man trapped in Japan’s Narita Airport.
- This looks like a really nice place in Northern Japan.
- US Admiral defends President Obama bow.
- This would definitely be a memorable wedding to have.
- Some nice pictures of the Buddha of Kamakura.
China
- Who would have thought Mr. T and Mao would ever hang out.
- The case of the missing Obama front page.
- President Obama’s bow controversy is now making news in China.
- Now that is a cool snowman.
- What happens when boys start masturbating at age four.
3:39 pm on November 22nd, 2009 1
"Japanese doggy style, literally."
These sort of publicity stunts are exactly why my friend's wife, who is Japanese, doesn't get North Americans' fascination with Kitano Takeshi's movies.
1:25 am on November 23rd, 2009 2
I believe that's why I bailed on Marmot in 2007.
1:27 am on November 23rd, 2009 3
Exactly why I bailed on Marmot's as of 19AUG07.
1:57 am on November 23rd, 2009 4
The thing is that it is tough when administering a website to read all the comments and moderate them when you got a day job and I'm sure Robert stays quite busy during the day. If everyone just ignores the people leaving troll comments then they eventually will go away. However, many of the commenters on the site seem to enjoy fighting with the trolls and thus they never go away.
However, the troll comments are usually left on hot button topics such as racism in Korea but for less hot button topics the comments section can actually be quite informative.
2:22 am on November 23rd, 2009 5
Blog discussions have a point of diminishing returns, a bell curve with respect to quality. As the popularity of a blog measured in hits per day increases, so does the quality of its comments sections. However, at some undetermined point, this quality actually begins to decrease as popularity increases.
Sometimes I worry that ROK Drop has become too popular, but you do a good enough job of policing the trolls while allowing them to have their say as well.
4:16 am on November 23rd, 2009 6
Can I go down to Dunkin Donuts and buy my "Do you know Saipan" shirt yet?
7:56 am on November 23rd, 2009 7
Hi GI, thanks for the links! You might want to check the one for "Obama's bow getting press in China," it goes again to the MR. T/MAO link instead of this one, which I think you may have intended:
http://adamcathcart.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/obam…
Hope you had a solid weekend and are getting geared up to eat some birds.
9:48 pm on November 24th, 2009 8
The Saipan shooter really hated Koreans. In the Philippines, we hate Koreans too. I think it is only a matter of time before we rise up and start shooting Koreans. I hope we don't but I think it will happen someday.
Koreans must change their ways.
1:06 am on November 25th, 2009 9
GI, Kushibo, Leon…
How dare you make light of American territory belonging to another nation.
This sets a bad precedent for my activist group, the Machias Seal Island Riders.
Machias Seal Island OORI DDANG!
Don't let it happen again or there will be some finger-cutting going on.