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Down by the Han River park near Banghwa

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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:40

Gusts Of Popular Feeling >>

I had a pleasant surprise the other day when I rode my bike down to the Han River park in Banghwa-dong:

What you see above is

what used to be a single lane bike path which people walked on and which was often borderline dangerous, as there were blind curves where you could have close calls with oncoming bikes or pedestrians. No longer, and it makes for a much more pleasant ride. Down near the Banghwa...(Read whole news on source site)

A Remembered, Fictionalized Ozarks . . .

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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:00

Gypsy Scholar >>

Bridge Over an Ozark Lake

(Image from Ozarks Law & Economy)

Mr. Harry Styron, a Missouri lawyer located in Branson, Missouri, has a blog post from

late January titled "The Ozarks in fiction: a work in progress" and has requested that interested folks "work together to build an annotated list of fiction about the Ozarks," and some of you might want to help him on that.

Meanwhile, under the heading "The soul of the Ozarks in fiction,"...(Read whole news on source site)

Jeong Ji A: "Light of Spring"

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Monday, 08 March 2010 19:05

Gypsy Scholar >>

Koreana, Spring 2010

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One of the earlier translations from Korean into English that my wife Sun-Ae and I did of a Korean

short story has appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of Koreana: Korean Art and Culture (Vol. 24, No. 1). The story is "Light of Spring," by Jeong Ji A, and the text was somewhat difficult for us to deal with because it was in dialect, so our first effort was...(Read whole news on source site)

“Gender Advertisements” in the Korean Context: A Request

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Monday, 08 March 2010 14:06
The Grand Narrative >> ( Source ) If you’d told me a week ago that I’d be spending much of my birthday looking for images of Korean men touching themselves, I’d probably have politely told you never to comment on my blog again. Prompted by this analysis of Korean magazine advertisements found that Korean men were significantly more likely to be [...]...(Read whole news on source site)

Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif: "Atheists, Christians, and Fornicators Are Responsible for Human Right...

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Sunday, 07 March 2010 19:14

Gypsy Scholar >>

Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif

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Finally, an issue upon which atheists, Christians, and fornicators can agree: human rights. According, anyway, to Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric

Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif, who informs us:

"We are committed to international treaties as long as they do not violate Islamic law. If they violate Islamic law, we should throw them out, because they are not worth the ink they were written with. With all due respect, the international treaties are...(Read whole news on source site)

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