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seoulbeats >> …Well, at least on the chest of her foreign visitor.(Part 2 @ 26sec.) On the most recent episode of We Got Married Ga-in and her husband JoKwon received a guest from Afghanistan who came to spend some quality time with the couple and pr...
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The Marmot's Hole >> Kia’s bigger cousin, Hyundai, has been getting most of the press lately, but that’s not to say nothing is going on with its smaller counterpart. They bought a whole minute at half time in last week’s Super Bowl. An odd li...
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ZenKimchi Korean Food Journal >> Here’s a little blast from the past. EJ and I visit the Namsan Folk Village for Lunar New Year, where we ended up having our wedding in 2009. It was amazingly frigid that day.
If you appreciate ZenKimchi why not b...
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NYT > South Korea >> Since finishing third at the 2008 world championships, Kim Yu-Na has lost only once, breaking records and raising South Korea’s hopes of its first Olympic gold medal in figure skating....(Read whole news on source site)...
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Fashion Runway- The K Way >> On the first day of New York Fashion Week Fall 2010 Ready-to-wear fashion shows, Korean model, Hyoni Kang, is seen on the [...]...(Read whole news on source site)...
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North Korea News >> North Korea's severe food shortages are expected to worsen this year after a poor grain harvest in 2009, South Korean officials say....(Read whole news on source site)...
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korea - Google News >> CTV.caSouth Korea's Lee Wins 1500 Meters While Ohno Takes SilverBusinessWeek13 (Bloomberg) -- Jung-Su Lee of South Korea won the Olympic gold medal in the men's 1500-meter short-track speedskating, while Apolo Anton Ohno of the U...
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Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* >>
Well, that's what I'm assuming was the message the Guardian intended with their feature on tourist packages to North Korea that appears in the February 14 edition of whatever it is they publish. An excerpt:
Th...
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Kunsan Air Base Top Stories >> Korean and United States Airmen celebrated the Korean New Year at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. The ceremony consisted of an ancestor memorial service, New Year's bow and traditional Korean food and games. To see th...
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Seoul Eats >> Back in December, I was invited by KBS TV to participate in a Buddhist Temple Cuisine Cooking Class. I learned how to prepare dishes using locally grown produce. The special ingredient was lotus root which has medicinal qualities and adds...
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ROK Drop >> Does anyone even care about the North Korean nuclear issue any more? I didn’t think so:
A top North Korean nuclear envoy wants to visit the United States for rare talks next month, news reports said Saturday, amid a push by diplomats t...
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seoulbeats >> Rihanna’s trip to Seoul started off a little rocky with the late appearance, but as previously reported the American superstar had a meet and greet with 4Minute (sans HyunA). You can now see them together on an SBS interview the interac...
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seoulbeats >> Poor, poor Lim. You’d think that every starry-eyed Korean girl would kill to be in her shoes right now, but then you realize she is set to be judged by those very same murderous young ladies. Well, I will stand up for Lim. I am official...
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Living Life Frame by Frame >> (click the photo for a larger version)
This shot was taken at the first reenactment I attended after my four year hiatus from the hobby that ended in 2007. I wasn’t actually a participant in this event, a private WWII ...
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These things really jumped out at me when I first moved to Korea. This is an instant coffee machine with a debt/credit system so you can pay for your coffee by using your cell phone if you, um, don’t have 200 won (20 cents).
When I first moved to Busan...
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seoulbeats >> MBC aired a special Wrestling Battle for the Lunar New Year hosted by Kim Gura and Lee Kyung Shil. Some of your favorite MCs, comedians, and idols including 2PM’s Chansung and Junho, SNSD’s Sunny and Tiffany, 2AM’s Seulong and Cha...
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Dramabeans >> When I started watching The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry, I was pleasantly surprised. It was fun and amusing and better than expected. With Episode 5, though, that feeling grew and I started sensing that emotional pull, that excitement ...
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korea - Google News >> ReutersNorth Korea: the 60-second guideThe GuardianThe Korean peninsula was divided into Soviet- and American-occupied zones in 1945, and when North Korea refused to participate in a UN-supervised election ...Meeting North Korea'...
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korea - Google News >> The GuardianInside North Korea: the ultimate package tourThe GuardianThe strangest of all the very strange things about the strangest place on earth, North Korea, is that it's surprisingly easy to go there. ...Meeting North Korea...
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North Korea News >> North Korean and Chinese border guards play a vital part in the trafficking of North Korean women to China, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Thursday....(Read whole news on source site)...
