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Korean Air Plane Escorted To Canadian Airfield By US Air Force Due To Bomb Scare
» by GI Korea April 11th, 2012 at 4:41 pm » Comments (4)
It is amazing the scare and inconvenience one jerk has caused for so many people: US fighter planes escorted a Korean Air jet carrying 146 passengers and crew to a Canadian ...more »Marion Barry Sort of Apologizes for Racist Remarks Towards Asian Business Owners
» by GI Korea April 7th, 2012 at 7:56 am » Comments (58)
You can add this to the growing list of controversies between the black and Asian communities in the US: Washington Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry spent Thursday firmly defending, explaining ...more »WHO Statistics Show High Level of Alcohol Consumption In Korea
» by GI Korea April 5th, 2012 at 5:51 pm » Comments (17)
For anyone that has spent significant time in Korea the numbers below should not be surprising: However, looking at the statistics, while Japan may have alcohol substance abuse problems, it is ...more »Korean-American Wins Award For Helping Hearing Impaired People
» by GI Korea April 3rd, 2012 at 5:33 pm » Comments (6)
Here is a good story about a Korean immigrant in the US not only being a hard working success story but helping others in the community as well: When Ray Park ...more »Update On South Korea’s Illegal Surveillance Scandal
» by GI Korea March 31st, 2012 at 5:51 pm » Comments (7)
Here is the update on the surveillance scandal happening within South Korea. The illegal surveillance was investigated back in 2010 and the documents used as evidence for that investigation have ...more »Korean Exchange Students Arrested & Fined for Defacing US National Monument
» by GI Korea March 31st, 2012 at 3:09 am » Comments (31)
During separate hearings in federal court this afternoon, Dana Choi, 22, and Seung Hoon Oh, 23, entered guilty pleas to misdemeanor information charging them with disturbing an archeological site, the ...more »Protests Against Korean Gas Station Owner In Dallas Shown To Be Based On Lies
» by GI Korea March 29th, 2012 at 9:24 pm » Comments (23)
Via a reader tip, below is an update on the Korean gas station owner in Dallas that has been the subject of protests over racial slurs against blacks he supposedly ...more »South Korean Government Revises Its Goal To Use Digitized Textbooks
» by GI Korea March 28th, 2012 at 3:00 am » Comments (7)
It looks like South Korea's efforts to digitize textbooks may be hitting a snag: Five years ago, South Korea mapped out a plan to transform its education system into the world’s ...more »SEIU Tries To Pressure Hyundai To Get Involved In HB56 Controversy
» by GI Korea March 27th, 2012 at 5:38 pm » Comments (3)
Via a reader tip comes this news that the American version of the KCTU, the SEIU is trying to pressure Hyundai to get involved in the us illegal immigration fight: Opponents ...more »Is Pink Slime On the Menu In South Korea?
» by GI Korea March 23rd, 2012 at 3:08 am » Comments (22)
Considering all the real concerns about US beef I always found it interesting that the anti-US leftists and their media allies in South Korea had to invent lies to create ...more »




