Driving south down the expressway towards Busan I ponder the rows and rows of apartment blocks that litter Korea’s skyline. Many of them look like government housing projects back home, and they’re everywhere, like sentries on duty. What are they protecting? The power of South Korea’s ruling political and business elite, which have so thoroughly [...]
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The two journalists detained by North Korea and being held in the country are going to be tried for illegal entry and “hostile acitivities,” according to Yonhap. According to the North’s Korean Central News Agency: The illegal entry of U.S. reporters into the DPRK and their suspected hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and [...]
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Well, maybe not. But it does sound like somthing they’d say, and the personality cult that’s built around the two is eerily similar. They’re both lionized as “national treasures,” held up as icons of Korean honor and nobility. Sure, I’m taking the comparison a little far. I mean, you’re not gonna be sent to the [...]
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According to Yonhap, authorities in North Korea have detained a South Korean employee at the industrial complex of Kaesong. The individual who hasn’t been named is being held for allegedly criticising the North’s political system and trying to convince a female North Korean worker at the complex to defect from the country. An accord dealing [...]
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A piece in the JoongAng says water shortages in regions throughout the country don’t result from a lack of water but rather from the country’s poor storage facilities. Also cites resistence by environmental groups to the construction of dams as one cause for the lack of sufficient reservoirs. Goh, a resident of Hwangji-dong in the [...]
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Descriptive article in the LA Times about conditions around the North Korea-China border where the two American journalists were taken some weeks back. A couple of sections that I found particulalry interesting for their graphic descritpitions of the border area: On their side of the border, North Korean soldiers stand watch, sheltered in concrete pillboxes [...]
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Wow! Really inspiring. Just discovered this and glad I did. Check out the spot at the DMZ… more about “Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)“, posted with vodpod
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The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting piece by Donald Kirk on South Korea’s air force as it remains on high alert ahead of North Korea’s launch. I have to say it’s nerve racking reading about all of the North’s short-range missiles and living a stone’s throw from the Blue House, the resident of which [...]
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An Associated Press story notes that Voice of America has been granted permission by the Lee Myung-bak administration to broadcast into North Korea from transmitters in the South for the first time in three decades. That makes the signal much clearer than VOA’s long-running shortwave broadcasts from far-flung stations in the Philippines, Thailand and the [...]
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more about “Daytime Drinking (Not sool) Trailer -…“, posted with vodpod
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