The Koreas

• Is this a new Samsung import to America, pot!
• This compensation payment from the North Koreans to the Chinese nationals they killed maybe next to nothing, but it is still more than they have ever given to the South Koreans they have murdered.
• Andrei Lankov on North Korea sanctions.
• Is the Obama administration finally turning toward Plan B on North Korea?
• Were North Korean World Cup fans actually Chinese?
• Was ESPN unfair to the North Koreans?
• A look at North Korea personnel reshuffles in 2010.
• If you can believe it, the Hankyoreh is pissed off about angry far right protests.
• Pictures from Seoul of Korea’s World Cup win over Greece.
• So far World Cup celebrations have only led to one death in South Korea.
• Yeah, I agree this is a Koren Photoshop disaster.
• Do Korean students want to study like Kim Yu-na?
• Nice travelog from King Sejong’s tomb in Yeoju.
• Does 10 Magazine suck at running reader contests?
• Is Facebook set to dominate social media in Korea?

Japan

• The Top 15 Japanese beer girls.
• This would be bad news for Kang Gi-kap if something like this ever got past in Korea.
• Are these really taboo topics in Japan?
• New Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto has said that he will not visit the Yasukuni Shrine.
• Is the IWC commercial whaling deal in jeopardy?
• Twitter is supposedly a popular hit in Japan.
• This new Japanese bullet train looks really cool.

China

• Is China heading down the same financial path as the Greeks?
• Interesting gallery of pictures of Chinese volunteers in Vietnam.
• A Chinese man has built a “cannon tower” to fight off eviction team.
• Chinese police remind you to think before you fight.