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Hyundai ‘Shocked’ as Camry wins Korea’s Car of the Year Award
Korean carmaking giant Hyundai Motors was recently humbled when the Toyota Camry was voted Car of the Year by the Korean Automobile Journalist Association. Hyundai’s formerly protected market has been...
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Kim Jong-un Smoking Cigarettes During Hospital Tour [PHOTOS]
Listen up. I want this hospital to be the premiere lung cancer treatment center in the world! Now let me use your funny hat for an ashtray. This will be the second time in a week that I have hit on a...
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U.S. Increases Crackdown on Chinese and Korean Birth Tourism “Maternity Hotels”
Birth tourism and “maternity hotels” are an increasing problem as people take advantage of the American Constitution’s 14th Amendment and visa waver programs. So you want that little bundle of joy your...
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Holy S***! Shocking South Korean Car Accident [VIDEO]
This car accident clip was recently shown on Korean SBS TV. Hold on to your seats for this one, folks. (Video below). Fortunately, the woman in the car, saying “O-ma, O-ma” (mother, mother), survived...
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Breakthrough: Asiana Flight Attendants Will Be Allowed to Wear Pants
You’ve come (kind of) a long way, baby. Rejoice! (source) When perusing the daily news, there are some stories that make you want to jump up out of your chair and applaud humanity for it’s remarkable...
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Historian Presents Korean Massacre Photos from 1923 Great Kanto Quake?
Jeong Seong-Gil, honorary director of Dongsan Medical Center Museum, Keimyuong University, South Korea. A South Korean historian has been plying the media with photos that he says show Korean victims...
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South Korean Parody of ‘Les Miserables’ Retitled ‘Les Militarables’ becomes a...
The Republic of Korea Air Force Media Contents Team and the Air Force Military Band have teamed up for a fun little parody of Les Miserables called Les Militaribles. The 13-minute clip (with English...
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Obsession Over the Right Line and the Media that Pushes it
Over at Haps, James Turnbull looks at South Korea’s line obsession, (e.g. “S-line”, “V-line”, “X-line”) and those that push them. He has some especially choice words for the “Bagel Girl” concept. One...
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American and ROK Marines Joint Winter Drill [PHOTOS]
The Telegraph has a good slide show of American and Korean Marines during their recent joint winter drill in Pyeongchang. Give me a good ondol and a hot cup of coffee and I’m fine staying inside, but...
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Hey ya’ll! It’s K-Country! Is K-Pop Turnin’ Country to Keep Itself Fresh?
I hear tell that them folks over there in tha K-pop studios, that’s producin’ all them fine tunes, are gettin’ wise to tha fact that their, ohhh, what’s that word… genre, might be gettin’ a little on...
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Dennis Rodman Visits North Korea, Hopes to “Run Into” PSY
Dennis Rodman Arrives in North Korea. Is this a good time for the U.S. to send in the drones? For what it’s worth, Dennis Rodman, also known as “The Worm” is visiting North Korea. Yeah. Dictator 3.0,...
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Korean Researcher: Oral Sex Cause for Increase in Head and Neck Cancer
If you really love her (or him), let them know that what they are doing right now could be very dangerous. Hat tip to Robert over at the Marmot’s Hole for spotting this gem in The Korea Times....
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Who Said the FTA was Going to be Bad for South Korea? The Early Numbers...
Tempers flared as protests erupted leading up to the signing of the KORUS FTA one year ago. Early numbers indicate a lot of people may have been better off staying at home. (PHOTO USA-Today) This week...
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On the uniqueness of ‘Jeong’ and my inability to understand even if I tried...
Interesting piece in the Korea Times today about Dr. John Linton called, “I am Korean.” The doc’s family has lived on the peninsula for four generations, and he describes himself as “a countryman from...
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Israel and South Korea strengthening ties through the Busan Israel House
You might have caught a headline earlier in the month about Busan being home to Asia’s first holocaust museum, housed in the newly-opened Busan Israel House cultural center. Michael Fraiman has put...
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Feature: Flight Attendants Can Now Wear Pants, but the Question Remains, Does...
BUSAN, South Korea – With the final coffin nail being hammered into Asiana Airlines’ dress code this week and the last of Korea’s flight attendants finally given the option to wear trousers,...
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Don’t Believe the (American) Hype on North Korea
University of Southern California professor and head of the school’s Korean Studies Institute, David Kang, says Americans should chill out over North Korea. The South certainly isn’t too concerned,...
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PSY`s New Video: Making Obnoxious Cool? Or a Clever Piece of Satire?
Is PSY’s new video promoting the art of being obnoxious or a piece of clever commentary decrying how people treat each other? Or, is just PSY doing what he’s always done –pushing society’s buttons as...
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Report: K-Pop Girl Groups Baring More Skin in Japan than in Korea. Really?
T-ara from their Japanese release. And you thought that ‘Easter in the Saloon’ look died out with the old west didn’t ya? The Ilbo that is Chosun recently reports that K-Pop girl bands are sexing it up...
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Please stop scaring me with ‘terrorism’ headlines
I was sitting on the sofa enjoying my morning cigarette, perusing the Korea Times, and was shocked to to find on the front page of the site that there was another terrorist attack in America! This time...
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