The Koreas

• South Korean tech predictions for 2010.
• Here is one bold prediction for 2010.
• The best of the worst of 2009.
• Top 10 Korea films of the zeroes.
• Voting for the biggest news stories of 2009.
• The State of the Expat, looking at 2010.
• Here is the latest Seoul Podcast for everyone.
• Will you be added to the Korean government’s English teacher blacklist?
• Korea’s worst English of 2009.
• So which English language newspaper is the most popular in Korea?
• Someone was quite unhappy with their Christmas present.
• I’m sure no one following the Lone Star issue is surprised by this news.
• The sexiest North Korean refugee boxer ever?
• Seoul is the world’s third most hated city?
• What makes the perfect spouse for South Koreans?
• ZenKimchi has a limited time link exchange for those interested.
• Here is some shocking news for everybody, sex offenders in Korea have a high re-offense rate.
• North Korea has now banned the use of foreign currency.
• Were these shipwrecked North Koreans conducting illegal mining operations in the Philippines?
• More Korea Times School of Journalism tips.
• Just another example of how bad the Korea Times is.

Japan

• Good point there isn’t a whole lot of attention being paid to this important development.
• It is good to see the Yakuza getting into the holiday spirit.
• Who would want to live in this house?
• The Japanese population continues to decline.
• I had no idea there was one Japanese passenger on the Titanic, and that he survived.
• Here is an interesting collection of a whole bunch of full body Japanese tattoos.
• Some beautiful shots of the Fuji Five Lakes in winter.

China

• South Korea and China right now are in the midst of a number of spats.
• It is interesting times we live in when the Chinese understand economic fundamentals better than the US and Japan.
• Top 10 most stressful cities in China.
• The trafficking of the mentally disabled in China.
• “Made in China” global ad campaign has been launched.