ROK Drop Open Thread- January 13, 2013

Tags: Open Threads

• Porky Romano
  2:20 am on January 13th, 2013 1

  North Korea Plagiarizes Sesame Street
  http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/12/north-korea-plagiarizes-sesame-street/

• Porky Romano
  2:43 am on January 13th, 2013 2

  Horses Cure Internet Porn Addiction In South Korea

  http://www.businessinsider.com/horses-fight-porn-addiction-in-korea-2013-1

• Porky Romano
  2:45 am on January 13th, 2013 3

  North Korea drops $10m on museum near Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
  http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/130110/north-korea-builds-museum-near-cambodia-angkor-wat

• Smokes
  7:37 am on January 13th, 2013 4

  #2 That story beings with the following:
  “What do you do if your teenage daughter is addicted to videogames and Internet porn?”

  At the risk of sounding sexist I really don’t think there’s a huge problem with teenage girls being addicted to video games and porn.

• Denny
  7:48 am on January 13th, 2013 5

  U.S. sailor arrested for trespassing in house in Yokosuka

  http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/u-s-sailor-arrested-for-breaking-into-house-in-yokosuka

  Japanese police arrested a drunken 24-year-old U.S. Navy sailor early Sunday after he allegedly trespassed in a house, violating a night-time curfew imposed after a rape case last year, reports said.

  Petty officer 2nd class Richard Lawton is stationed in Yokosuka, a port city south of Tokyo, and wrongly believed that his friends were staying in the house, Jiji Press and Kyodo News agency said. The residents of the house told local media they do not know Lawton.

  Lawton, who was arrested at around 2:40 a.m., is suspected of violating a night-time curfew imposed by the U.S. military on all its servicemen in Japan after two sailors were arrested on charges of raping a woman in Okinawa in October.

• Denny
  7:53 am on January 13th, 2013 6

  Sony Pictures exec: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ does not advocate torture

  http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/sony-pictures-exec-zero-dark-thirty-does-not-advocate-torture

  Sony Pictures executive Amy Pascal has lashed out at a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) who accused Osama bin Laden film “Zero Dark Thirty” of promoting torture and urged fellow Academy members not to vote for it in the Oscars race.

  Pascal’s comments came in response to Academy member David Clennon’s remarks at a rally against the torture of terror suspects in Los Angeles on Friday.

  “I believe that the film clearly promotes a tolerance for torture,” Clennon told local ABC TV news affiliate KABC, adding “I hope that my fellow members of the Academy will consider the morality of each nominee.”

• Kuiwon
  11:41 am on January 13th, 2013 7

  For readers that are interested, I recently (re)started a blog on Classical Chinese (Hanmun) works written by Korean authors:

  http://kuiwon.wordpress.com
  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kuiwon/404233166319265

• Glans
  12:27 pm on January 13th, 2013 8

  In Taipei, thousands demonstrate against the pro-mainland president, Ma Ying-jeou. Here’s the Al Jazeera report, text and video.

• Glans
  12:28 pm on January 13th, 2013 9

  In Taipei, thousands demonstrate against the pro-mainland president, Ma Ying-jeou. Here’s the Al Jazeera report, text and video.

  Maybe the link will work this time.

• kushibo
  2:35 pm on January 13th, 2013 10

  Glans is a closet muslin, like our presidon’t.

• kangaji
  3:39 pm on January 13th, 2013 11

  #10: Ha ha ha… Sounds like the old Nintendon’t Genesis does commercial. I can see it on conspiracy websites now:

  Dictatorship does! You can’t do this with a President! Dictatorship does!
  Get the new plutocracy edition dictatorship for only 19.84 and we’ll suspend habeas corpus with no acts of a legislative body.
  Dictatorship does what Presidon’t.

• Glans
  4:29 pm on January 13th, 2013 12

  kushibo, normally I’d say that dragging a guy’s closet into an open thread is beyond the pale, but I understand the tension in your professional life and the stress in your personal life.

  The entire ROK Drop community loves you, man. Be strong.

• kushibo
  12:07 am on January 14th, 2013 13

  The entire ROK Drop community loves you, man. Be strong.

  It’s what powers me through the day, man. It’s what powers me through.

• Glans
  9:43 am on January 14th, 2013 14

  In Geneva, the UN is working on a treaty to limit mercury emissions. Here’s John Heilprin’s AP report at the Miami Herald.

  Mercury, like lead, is bad for brains. What will happen to this treaty if it ever gets to the US Senate?

• Porky Romano
  11:58 pm on January 14th, 2013 15

  At least 758 Korean males are hiding in the U.S.A. from required military service.
  http://asiancorrespondent.com/95267/report-more-overseas-korean-men-evade-military-service/
  On behalf of Korea the American government should do all it can to deport these individuals so they can properly serve their nation.

• Fanwarrior
  5:03 am on January 15th, 2013 16

  #4 it’s a bigger problem in South Korea than you might think. teenage girls are much more likely to get involved in video games here than they are in the states, so much so that a lot of MMOs advertise directly to them.

• tbonetylr
  4:28 pm on January 15th, 2013 17

  ‘Forget the Taxman: You’re Working to Pay Your Doctor’
  http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/01/14/forget-the-taxman-youre-working-to-pay-your-doctor/
  “To make things worse, there’s the fact that a lot of health care money is wasted. According to the Institute of Medicine, 30 percent of health care dollars are sucked up by fraud, excessive administration costs, unnecessary or poorly delivered services, inflated prices, or missed prevention opportunities.”

• Leon LaPorte
  5:36 pm on January 15th, 2013 18

  15. Tom?

• Porky Romano
  5:01 am on January 16th, 2013 19

  18 Not a chance.

• Smokes
  10:51 pm on January 16th, 2013 20

  Ouch, drive carefully.

  http://www.army.mil/article/94229/

• Denny
  7:17 am on January 17th, 2013 21

  U.S. Navy Minesweeper Runs Aground in Philippines

  http://news.yahoo.com/us-navy-minesweeper-runs-aground-reef-philippines-041239212–abc-news-politics.html

  A U.S. Navy minesweeper has run aground on a reef in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines.

  “The ship is currently stuck on the reef, approximately 80 miles east-southeast of Palawan Island,” said the statement late Wednesday. “The crew is currently working to determine the best method of safely extracting the ship.”

  A Navy official said the grounding is under investigation. An initial damage assessment did not find any leakage of fuel or oil from the ship.

• Porky Romano
  5:07 am on January 18th, 2013 22

  Speaking of Tom, it sounds like Tom, or someone else with Tom’s Korea obsession, is writing for the Korea Times.
  http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/01/116_129021.html

• Leon LaPorte
  5:28 am on January 18th, 2013 23

  22. I’m completely baffled. I just sat here and thought to myself, WTF am I reading? Did the writer even get some of the genders wrong?

• Denny
  12:21 pm on January 18th, 2013 24

  Desperate marine dashes for freedom from boot camp after only three days – wearing just his UNDERWEAR

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264640/Marine-makes-mad-dash-freedom-San-Diego-boot-camp–scaling-security-fences-losing-pants-process.html#ixzz2IMAQHiYi

  Unnamed recruit from San Rafael had only been at the base for three days and hadn’t started training.

  He lost his trousers on one of the security fences and was found by police in his boxers and t-shirt.

  Ill-fated escape attempt ended with 22-year-old backing janitor’s van into luggage trolley at busy San Diego International airport.

• JoeC
  12:37 pm on January 18th, 2013 25

  #24

  After only three days in boot camp he was not a Marine.

• chefantwon
  4:58 pm on January 18th, 2013 26

  #24, after 3 days in boot camp he didn’t even have a uniform!

• Denny
  10:39 am on January 19th, 2013 27

  Why doesn’t the military have an out policy for quitters of boot camp?

 

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