Monthly Archives: January 2010
Stars & Stripes Slide Show of Historic Snow Storm In Korea
» by GI Korea January 5th, 2010 at 9:32 am » Comments (0)
Over at Stars & Stripes they have a slideshow with pictures of the effect of the historic snow fall on USFK facilities in Korea: The worst one-day snowstorm since South Korea ...more »James Cameron’s Avatar On Pace To Set Box Office Records In South Korea
» by GI Korea January 5th, 2010 at 3:21 am » Comments (40)
James Cameron's science fiction epic Avatar is setting box office records across the globe to include in South Korea: It's a ``blue'' winter in Korea, with ``Avatar'' garnering the largest number ...more »Seoul Records Record Snow Falls
» by GI Korea January 4th, 2010 at 7:54 pm » Comments (23)
Just imagine what the alarmists would be saying if this was a record heatwave?: Record high snowfall blanketed the central part of the Korean peninsula on the first working day of ...more »Man Caught Smuggling Fireworks to South Korea
» by GI Korea January 4th, 2010 at 4:00 pm » Comments (1)
There are plenty of examples of people being caught trying to smuggle drugs into South Korea, but fireworks?: Screeners at Honolulu International Airport have confiscated fireworks found in the luggage of ...more »Picture of the Day: Spending Christmas With A Fembot
» by GI Korea January 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (6)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="462" caption="Le Trung, an Asian robotics developer from Ontario, has created a fembot he named Aiko. He said that Aiko is his idea of a perfect woman. ...more »South Africa President Jacob Zuma to marry third wife
» by Bill January 4th, 2010 at 10:06 am » Comments (3)
Zuma is still married to wives #1 and #2. From the BBC- Senior figures from the ruling ANC, the trade union movement and the South African Communist Party are expected to ...more »Beijing disrupted by record snowfall
» by Bill January 4th, 2010 at 8:58 am » Comments (3)
Get the shovels out Up to 30cm (12 inches) of snow fell in China's capital and its neighbouring port city of Tianjin over the weekend. Thousands of travellers have been left stranded ...more »North Koreans Say They Have Robert Park In Custody
» by GI Korea January 4th, 2010 at 4:49 am » Comments (62)
The North Koreans are now admitting that they have Robert Park in custody: North Korea acknowledged it has detained an American for illegally entering the reclusive country, news welcomed by relatives ...more »ROK Drop Weekly Linklets – January 3, 2010
» by GI Korea January 3rd, 2010 at 4:05 pm » Comments (1)
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 ...more »Picture of the Day: Old Man In the Rubble of War
» by GI Korea January 3rd, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (7)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="473" caption="An old Korean man takes a rest on the street in front of destroyed buildings, in Seoul. August 20, 1951. G. Dimitri Boria. (Army)"][/caption] more »





