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Four-time Asian Games gold medallist Jo Oh-ryong was found dead in his home in Jeollanam-do on the 4th. Besides having some other action shots from his career, this Chosun Ilbo gallery also illustrates even former gold medallists might not want to take th...
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Gypsy Scholar >> The Anatomy of MelancholyHolbrook Jackson(Image from eBay)Perhaps some of my readers will remember a previous post on a quote from Milton's Areopagitica: [A] good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treas...
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Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* >> Adeel takes a critical look at the 2003 North Korean film Our Fragrance (우리의 향기).
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Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* >> The BBC has an interesting little series on Cold War-era borders that remain standing, as well as borders that have since gone up since the Berlin Wall fell. Not surprisingly, part of the focus is on Korea's ow...
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Through Whitey's Eyes >> 아저씨 블루스 씨디I recorded a CD single. It can be heard over at MySpace:www.myspace.com/douglasbinnsFor those who don't know, an "ajeossi" is a middle-aged Korean man who works too hard and drinks too much....(Read wh...
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Wonju Wife >> So there was this one time... when I got an award. I lived off my blog award high for days, I tell you. Well, last night was pretty much a repeat of the last time, only I had a husband to yell at, so I didn't have to squueeeee only to mys...
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Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* >> A somewhat unorthodox look at ATEK-versus-AES and what it all means.
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Gypsy Scholar >> Harlow Shapley(Image from Cosmotography)Another one in addition to yesterday's Leroy Tucker, I mean . . .This other genius is Harlow Shapley, and my cyberfriend Annie Gottlieb shot me an email the other day to inform me that this grea...
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Scribblings of the Metropolitician >> This was my response to a link posted to me by a friend: It frustrates me that there are so many IGNORANT people out there. I don't mean just plain "dumb." But really willfully IGNORANT of the history they never......
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Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* >> [above: Pyongyang has only recently discovered that posting hot border guards along the Tumen River is just enticing people to cross into the country.]
A Bloomberg piece is citing a Korean-language article in...
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Seoul Eats >> This is from Seoul Players. I'll be there to watch a performance today.
Dan
Hello Theater Lovers,
We would like to thank everyone who helped make our opening weekend of "Black Comedy" a great success. We still have eight more performa...
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gangwon notes >> Lee Myung Bak made a good point in defending his 4-rivers project. The quote I am using as a title, though, sounds improbably naive or poorly translated.
From the Chosun Ilbo (I have italicized the 'good point'):
...He pledged to s...
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Asian Correspondent: Korea Beat >> The mystery in Seoul continues this week and may be spreading into the provinces. Personally I'm put in mind of the old hobo code in America.
Seoul police are investigating after citizens began being frightened by sym...
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@koreangov >> "Culture Ministry to Create New Korean Wave Abroad"Do you recall Korean Wave? No? It is because it isn't yet at a complete! So, the WAVE is atop you and it's resemble you being under the water. But the "배" gonna to rescue you (배용...
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ROK Sojourn >> I already watched a news clip about the US Army's Experience Center in Philadelphia when it first opened up almost a year ago. The place looks sharp and if I were 16 again and had no hope for my future after high school, that would be a...
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Gypsy Scholar >> Autumn Leaves (1856)John Everett Millais(Image from Wikipedia)In yesterday's blog entry, I made the following remark about one of John Milton's intentions in Paradise Lost: The other term for "autumn" is, after all, "fall," which Milt...
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Brian in Jeollanam-do >> A program called "The Current" on CBC radio has talked with Benjamin Wagner, Andrea Vandom, and ATEK's Dann Gaymer in a piece on the online cafe Anti-English Spectrum. You can listen to...(Read whole news on source site)...
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Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* >> Adeel is gaga over the kayagŭm, which is a much more alliterative thing to say if you spell it gayageum or gayagum. A Wonder Girls song on this traditional stringed instrument is what got him hooked.
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Gusts Of Popular Feeling >> An article about Scott Burgeson's new book appeared in the Korea Times today, and mentions thatOn Nov. 5, he is giving a lecture titled "Notes on Multiculturalism in Korea" at Kium, an annex of Kyobo bookstore inside [Shin] ...
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Korean Rum Diary >> The Korea Times has always shown a horrible bias against foreigners. Their bullshit rhetoric pretty much embodies the pure-blood obsession of the people that inhabit this monotonous peninsula. Just like the population, the KT likes ...
