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Should South Korea Give Up West Sea Islands To North Korea?
» by GI Korea March 16th, 2012 at 3:14 am » Comments (13)
That is what Henry Seggerman the Manager of Korea International Investment Fund is advocating for in this recent op-ed posted on Oh My News International: Loosening up the NLL is not my ...more »Is Jeju English Village Trafficking Native English Teachers?
» by GI Korea March 15th, 2012 at 5:06 pm » Comments (0)
Over at Three Wise Monkeys they have a very strange tale about native English teachers being caught in alleged human trafficking like conditions at the Jeju English Village among a host of other ...more »Hwang Woo-suk To Attempt To Clone Mammoth
» by GI Korea March 13th, 2012 at 8:37 am » Comments (14)
Look who is back: Russian and South Korean scientists have signed a deal on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ...more »Korean Government Tries To Get the US Military To Change Name of “The Sea of Japan”
» by GI Korea March 9th, 2012 at 6:36 am » Comments (19)
Here is an update from the front lines of the Sea that Cannot Be Named issue: Kim Hyun-soo, a marine law expert and professor at Inha University in Incheon, said, “Koreans ...more »Poll Shows that Majority of Korean Public Want the Clergy Taxed
» by GI Korea March 5th, 2012 at 8:10 am » Comments (23)
Considering how involved the clergy in Korea is with politics maybe taxing them is a good idea?: A majority of South Korean people think clergy members, including priests and Buddhist monks, ...more »Two Daegu Middle School Students Sentenced To Prison For Bullying
» by GI Korea February 28th, 2012 at 5:51 pm » Comments (9)
I wonder if this is something we will ever see in the US, sending kids to jail for bullying?: Two South Korean middle school students received rare prison sentences on Monday ...more »Judge Says That Dongguk Lawsuit Against Yale Can Go To Trial
» by GI Korea February 23rd, 2012 at 11:51 pm » Comments (2)
It is going to be interesting to see how this trial turns out: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="250" caption="Shin Jeong-ah"][/caption] A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected a second bid by Yale University ...more »Study Finds Koreans Spend Too Much and Save Too Little
» by GI Korea February 18th, 2012 at 4:23 am » Comments (22)
It looks like Koreans are living the American Dream and they didn't even have to immigrate to the US to experience it: The number of indebted people is increasing across all ...more »Video of Korean Riot Police Conducting Realistic Training Exercise
» by GI Korea February 8th, 2012 at 8:28 am » Comments (6)
Via a reader tip comes this interesting video of the Korean riot police conducting a very realistic training drill: I had to chuckle at some of the comments left on YouTube ...more »English Teaching Business Linked To Cheating Scandal In Korea
» by GI Korea February 7th, 2012 at 10:08 am » Comments (9)
What I am most surprised about in regards to the below article is not the cheating because cheating scandals are numerous in Korea; what I am most amazed about is ...more »
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