I wonder if Park Jin-hee, who looks hot in her Nazi SS uniform, is also a fan of Korea’s Hitler Bars?  Check out Brian’s posting which has YouTube video as well as OFK  who has a response from the Simon-Wiesenthal Center and much more. 
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As I suspected, YouTube is going to have a hard time cracking the Korean market:

YouTube’s new Korean platform got off to a bad start on its first day on Thursday. YouTube is the world’s largest video sharing website, with about 70 million video clips and 10 hours of new clips being uploaded every second.
Korean netizens […]

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YouTube Korea is up and operating in Korea and Michael Hurt’s Seoul Glow is featured on the front page:

More on the YouTube launch in Korea from the Chosun Ilbo:

Sakina Arsiwala, international manager for YouTube, said that Korea is a very attractive market with a robust IT infrastructure. "Rather than just translate our site into Korean, […]

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This is actually something I’m willing to bet goes on in Korea as well:

Takeshi Yamashita does not look like a homeless person.  From his carefully distressed jeans to his casual-cool navy striped T-shirt, he is every bit the trendy Tokyoite.
Yet the 26-year-old has been sleeping in a reclining seat in an Internet cafe every night […]

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The Party Pooper has the scoop (here and here) of one of the biggest news stories of this year, the showdown between King Bhumibal and Rain.  Funny stuff, and yes we all do owe a debt of gratitude to the people of Thailand. 
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Korea’s first Playboy model, Lee Sabi has new nude pictures coming to a mobile phone near you. Only in Korea is this national news.
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The Chosun has an article about the sexual attitudes of Koreans in college. If find it a little surprising that only a quarter of students have had sex while in college among some other interesting findings:
Only 354 of the 1,276 — 27.7 percent — said they were sexually experienced. About half of them — […]

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I had a chance to attend a wedding at a Korean wedding hall recently. I have always seen the various wedding halls all around Korea that look like castles or Greek buildings. The wedding hall I went to had three floors. The first floor was the banquet room, the second floor was where the wedding […]

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