Via Yonhap a nice article on how a fledgling theatre company is aiming to help give a voice to the struggles immigrant women in South Korea face. ”When someone tells me ‘you scared me,’ I reply, ‘You scared me, too,’” Berera says with a laugh. Berera is a main member of the [Salad theatre] company [...]
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An article disputes attacks on Obama’s legal appointee Harold Koh over his comments regarding Sharia law and the U.S. legal system. I was in the room with my husband and several fellow alumni, and we are all adamant that Koh never said or suggested that sharia law could be used to govern cases in US [...]
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(HT to Marmot) more about “Jon Stewart and NK Dongs“, posted with vodpod
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Per Yonhap: April 10, SEOUL, South Korea — A female university student has her head shaved in Seoul on April 10 in a protest rally organized by student leaders to demand the government reduce tuition fees.
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1900 — Hanseong Electric, the country’s first electric energy producer, which was established two years earlier, installs street lights for the first time in Jongno, the central district of Seoul, where the royal palaces of the Joseon Dynasty were located. 1919 — The Provisional Government of Korea, established in Shanghai earlier to restore their homeland’s [...]
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John Feffer talks about attitudes towards the US military presence in S. Korea and the thinking behind last month’s joint exercises. more about “The Real News Network – Why are US ba…“, posted with vodpod
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1975 — Eight South Korean men convicted of trying to overthrow the government are executed just 20 hours after a court sentenced them to death. They were among a group of 23 arrested on rebellion charges as part of a government crackdown on dissident movements. An article by Bruce Cummings in the Hankyoreh from 2007 [...]
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With regard to the shooting in LA, as well as an earlier rampage in New York, the following I think really goes beyond the ususal suspects of the media or simple insanity in exploring how a person – an immigrant in both these cases – becomes a cold-blooded killer. Read the full article here: Whenever [...]
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Video simulation of what a successfull satellite launch would have looked like. more about "Simulation of NK satellite", posted with vodpod
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An article in the Christian Science Monitor reports that some scientists in South Korea are saying the North tipped its rocket with a dummy satellite in order to justify a test of its missile technology. They cannot have been shooting a real satellite,” says Myung Noh-hoon, director of the Space Research Center at the Korea [...]
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