By The Koreas
- Interesting read about journalism in North Korea.
- Explaining why Koreans like to say their country has four seasons.
- Congrats to another K-Blogger having a baby.
- Chris in South Korea has his last posting with some nice pictures from his trip to Cheju-do here.
- What kind of cell phone charms do Korean couples use?
- Some interesting historical context about the Industrial Trainee System used to be migrant laborers into Korea.
- The true origins of pizza.
- The number one article on Naver is about a taxi driver that is suspected of murdering a woman.
- So who would vote for Lee Myung-bak for President of America?
- It sounds like these are some dentists to avoid in Korea.
- So what does a Korean-American, a sex offender, murder, and Austin Powers have in common?
- North Korea has opened a rail line from Rajin to Russia.
- Well that was nice of Google.
- ZenKimchi has been quite busy this summer shooting a television series for the Arirang Channel.
- This samgyeopsal restaurant sounds pretty good.
Japan
- It looks like the Occupy Tokyo protests are not really catching on.
- The nuclear fearmongers in Japan have been hit with a setback.
- Anyone interested in buying a foreclosed property in Japan?
China
- Who made the 2011 Chinese Film Festival poster?
- Does Mitt Romney understand China and East Asia issues?
- Here is a round up of some China/North Korea related news notes.
4:55 pm on October 16th, 2011 1
The true origins of pizza is satire at its finest. Mr. Pizza just made me a fan. It’s good to see this.
8:52 pm on October 16th, 2011 2
Korea pizza is original Pizza~
9:24 pm on October 16th, 2011 3
My idea of pizza includes tomato sauce, which was not available in Korea before the voyages of that noted Italian navigator, Christopher Columbus. No, he didn’t visit Korea, but his successors found out about the tomato in South America and then made it known world-wide.
9:34 pm on October 16th, 2011 4
A true pizza must have four distinct toppings: sauce, cheese, vegetables and meats.
10:30 pm on October 16th, 2011 5
Did the Koreans have cheese before they met Europeans? If not, that would leave their historic pizzas with only two out of four requirements fulfilled.
11:12 pm on October 16th, 2011 6
Leon, you don’t like traditional Korean pizza?
…miniscule quantities of sauce and cheese, sickly sweet corn, rubbery squid, and dry-azz sweet potato.
Yum!
I know a guy with a pizza shop. He lets me make my own pizza. He shakes his head in disgust when the blanket of cheese that can’t be seen under the shower of toppings tries to slide off the ocean of sauce.
But daaaaaaaaaamn, it’s good!
12:33 am on October 17th, 2011 7
I do like ‘em saucy and cheesy. Pizzas are good like that too.
1:08 am on October 17th, 2011 8
Sauce? Ketchup. Check.
Cheese? Kyŏja. Check.
Vegetables? Corn. Check.
Meats? Spam. Check.
2:02 am on October 17th, 2011 9
Ketchup on pizza is common in romania and china as well.
2:25 am on October 17th, 2011 10
I had pizza in Russia. No tomato whatsoever. More like a very light mayonnaise under the cheese. Pretty disappointing.
8:41 pm on October 18th, 2011 11
“Interesting read about journalism in North Korea.”
Does journalism really exist in North Korea? Writing and publishing nonsense in a newspaper format does not make one a journalist.