The Koreas:

• For those that haven’t heard yet, Robert Koehler has a new travel and photography blog that I recommend people check out.
• A CNNGo article on Seoul’s Five Grand Palaces has been published.
• One Free Korea has a good posting about the Amnesty International Report on North Korea’s health care system.
• This Korean guy some how got the idea to sell poisonous, brain rotting matter to Koreans.
• There is more talk out there about new visa regulations for all you foreign English teachers out there.
• North Korea releases Cheonan poster.
• Another English teacher was arrested for pot.
• The Boryeong Mud Festival has officially started.
• A Korean national has been extradited to the US for a fatal drunk driving incident.
• Why North Korea should be on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List.
• More information about the dissident leaflets distributed in Hoeryong.
• Did Kim Jong-il visit East Germany in 1960?
• Here are some stories from North Korea and China that are worth following.
• The KNTO has now come up with their very own Korean food blog.
• Lessons for the gulf from the Taean oil spill.

Japan:

• Is Japan about to compensate Korean forced laborers?
• Yes these are some very beautiful flowers.
• Add this to the ever growing list of stupid criminals.
• This is interesting, Honda is scrapping their gas driven Civic in Japan to focus on “green” cars.
• Interesting pictures from a Japanese “rock hotel”.

China:

• Gunplay on the Yalu?
• Jackie Chan is being criticized for endorsing a cancer causing shampoo.
• If things are so great in China, than why are so many leaving?