Monthly Archives: January 2011

What I Like About Korea: #24 – Korean Baseball

» by GI Korea January 26th, 2011 at 3:49 am » Comments (16)

#24 - Korean Baseball I highly recommend going out with some of your Korean friends and see a Korean baseball game. I found it funner than going to a US baseball ...more »

Chinese Piano Player Punks the Whitehouse

» by GI Korea January 25th, 2011 at 9:00 pm » Comments (84)

This is being played up as being a bigger deal than what it really is, but still you would think the Whitehouse staff would vet these people more closely: Chinese-born pianist ...more »

Picture of the Day: Some Pointers from Girls Generation

» by GI Korea January 25th, 2011 at 12:50 pm » Comments (15)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Girls’ Generation react at a promotional event for an IT company they advertise in Seoul on Wednesday. "][/caption] More pictures can be viewed over at the Chosun ...more »

Libyans Gone Wild On Korean Construction Sites

» by GI Korea January 25th, 2011 at 3:08 am » Comments (16)

This has to be one of the oddest challenges that these construction companies have had to deal with at an overseas building project: In Libya, no one’s words carry as much ...more »

Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Pleads Guilty For Sexual Misconduct & Adultery

» by GI Korea January 24th, 2011 at 10:40 pm » Comments (16)

Here is a weird criminal story for all you Zoomies out there: A senior Ohio Air Force base official pleaded guilty on Monday to sexual misconduct and adultery, blaming extramarital ...more »

Did China Construct a 5,000 Kilometer Tunnel?

» by GI Korea January 24th, 2011 at 7:54 pm » Comments (9)

Some how this 5,000 kilometer tunnel sounds impossible to have been constructed, especially in secret: The Chinese Army is believed to have built an underground "Great Wall" that stretches for ...more »

Picture of the Day: Sun-woo Sun Speaks

» by GI Korea January 24th, 2011 at 12:49 pm » Comments (13)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Sunwoo Sun speaks at a press conference for her new film in Seoul on Wednesday. "][/caption] more »

Shin Jeong-ah Back In the Headlines With Book Announcement

» by GI Korea January 24th, 2011 at 3:38 am » Comments (9)

Disgraced Dongguk University professor Shin Jeong-ah who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for forging a Phd degree from Yale, embezzling money from an art gallery, and receiving special ...more »

Michael Breen: “Same Old Crap” From North Korea

» by GI Korea January 23rd, 2011 at 7:23 pm » Comments (6)

It good to see that someone like Michael Breen agrees with me that the latest announcement of talks with North Korea is just more of the "same old crap", not ...more »

Picture of the Day: Doing the Hula In Incheon

» by GI Korea January 23rd, 2011 at 12:31 pm » Comments (4)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Dancers perform the hula to celebrate the launch of the direct flight between Incheon and Honolulu by Hawaiian Airlines in Seoul on Thursday. /Newsis "][/caption] more »