By The Koreas:
- It looks like there is a lot of concern in Germany about how Koreans are dominating opera houses.
- I guess a lot of these signs will be coming down now in South Korea.
- Mark you calendars, Taco Bell is coming to Korea on July 11th.
- A 15 year old Seoul teenager was tortured and beaten to death for the most trivial of reasons.
- The difference between Apple and Samsung.
- Is anyone surprised by the plagiarism scandal currently rocking K-Pop?
- Will the third time be the charm for Pyeongchang?
- For those interested next week is the Ulsan Whale Festival.
- Is this the smallest increase in the minimum wage ever?
- Here is a nice slide show of Korea’s women of the sea.
- Former President George Bush was in Korea this week and drew a crowd of 60,000 supporters if you can believe it.
- Cho Seh-yon discusses the power of false Internet rumors in Korea and who is to blame for them.
- Well this shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone that the North Koreans are hoarding Chinese Yuan.
- North Korea is slated to have a rare leadership election.
Japan:
- The former head of Tourism Australia in Asia has a new gig, running a network of love hotels in Japan.
- Whales and whores
- Japanese right wingers cannot protest an anti-whaling movie but during election time they can blast their noise trucks in every neighborhood?
- Japan supposedly has the world’s most unhappy scientists.
- Here are some funny Japanese Metro advertisements.
- Japanese men seem to have some of the weirdest fetishes, and here is the latest.
- This ended up being quite an expensive can of coffee, $2,000!
China:
- Congrats to Korea and China blogger Adam Cathcart has been recognized with an award for an article he co-authored in the China Quarterly.
- The Most Lovable: Chinese soldiers during the Korean War.
- You would think a website conducting a “My Breasts, My Show” contest would be doing a national service?
- Are ethnic tensions with Chinese living in France increasing?
She hasn’t seen...
10:28 am on June 27th, 2010 1
“the survival of the fittest is a major principle of contemporary world.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
11:02 am on June 27th, 2010 2
"Is anyone surprised by the plagiarism scandal currently rocking K-Pop?"
The fact there's plagiarism or that it isn't being swept under the rug?
11:15 am on June 27th, 2010 3
"The former head of Tourism Australia in Asia has a new gig, running a network of love hotels in Japan."
USFK should investigate this issue immediately. Japan and Australia (and what the hell, Austria too, what with their lewd kangaroo sex) should be declared off-limits! Whargarblll!!11!!eleventy!!1 congressional report!!1!!!*gasp* Whargarbbllle! $#(T@%JGMNWTR *NO CARRIER*
11:32 am on June 27th, 2010 4
"the North Koreans are hoarding Chinese Yuan."
Not surprised. The North Korean economy seems unable to support its own currency any longer, and the elite have most of their holdings in Chinese yuan. With such a lack of confidence in their own currency, the next step will be to use the Chinese Yuan as the currency of North Korea.
4:59 pm on June 27th, 2010 5
"Former President George Bush was in Korea this week and drew a crowd of 60,000 supporters if you can believe it."
Misleading.
They didn't turn out just to see him. They were there for a prayer meeting. The blog suggests that some there were his supporters because he lifted sanctions against North Korea but nothing in the story confirms that.
It even explicitly states that at least some were definitely not supporters:
10:26 pm on June 27th, 2010 6
#5 Yes joec—we got it—Bush is evil—Bush sucks—yada yada yada. Yawn. Your Community Organizer has continued on the same road — when not making things worse. Mr. hopey-changey is nearly halfway thru the 1st term and the debt keeps climing and the jobs keep leaving. Gays are pissed. Gitmo is STILL open. The war is still going. Troops are STILL in Iraq. DPRK is STILL not on the terror list.
Mean while you STILL suffer thru your Bush Derangement Syndrome. Take a pill or something. I hope you will be well SOMETIME. Sad for you if it becomes a life long condition. Bush must be very powerfull to affect you so.
4:04 am on June 28th, 2010 7
Thanks for the German operatic link. I have an old college chum who sings in a regional opera chorus in Germany. Amazingly, 5 out of the 28-strong chorus are Korean. http://londonkoreanlinks.net/2007/04/11/the-class…
10:04 am on June 28th, 2010 8
#6 "we got it"
You use the 1st person plural. Who else shares your reading comprehension problem?
11:54 am on June 28th, 2010 9
I really hate this new format where I cannot comment on another persons opinion.
Nor am I ever e-mailed of any new comments.
What I enjoyed most before was the interaction which is now zero.