A couple of peices in today’s Korea Times point to the growing impact of Internet technology on Korean society. (Even on the remote Dokdo islets, seven hours by boat from the mainland, broadband has been installed.) The first is on the withdrawl of Sony Pictures from Korea, due to slumping sales caused by the nation’s [...]
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A story in the Korea Times reports on sweeping arrests made in one of Seoul’s more notorious red-light districts, Jangan-dong, where police apprehended over a hundred sex workers and their clients, as well as over a ton of contraband. Since then, police have arrested six pimps and booked roughly 157 sex workers and customers. It [...]
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