(HT to Marmot) more about “Jon Stewart and NK Dongs“, posted with vodpod
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Why are US bases in Korea?
Posted on April 9, 2009 by sleepingcow
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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Simulation of NK satellite
Posted on April 9, 2009 by sleepingcow
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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VOA finds voice with 2MB
Posted on March 28, 2009 by sleepingcow
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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China’s last eunuch
Posted on March 24, 2009 by sleepingcow
Tragic story of China’s last eunuch. Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting’s eyes in old age — the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death… His desperate father performed the castration on [...]
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USFK personel adopting Korean kids for cash
Posted on January 21, 2009 by sleepingcow
The Korea Times reports on USFK personel adopting Korean kids for payment so the kids will gain access to DOD funded schools on bases here. The United States Forces Korea (USFK) has turned a blind eye to allegations that U.S. base personnel have adopted Korean children who wish to attend American schools in army bases [...]
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Teen sued by lawyer over video game committs suicide
Posted on January 20, 2009 by sleepingcow
An article in the JoongAng about a dirtbag lawyer who sued a teen for insulting him over an on-line gaming forum, claiming the comments were a violation of the telecommunications law – ala Minerva. “I was wakened by the sound of something falling with a thud outside. I went out to see what was going [...]
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Slumdog Schwarzanegger
Posted on January 20, 2009 by sleepingcow
Years ago I stepped off a bus in Mumbai — it was still Bombay then — and into a sea of waist-deep water as the annual monsoon transformed the city into a giant, filthy swimming pool. I turned around to look at the driver, thinking maybe I’d catch a ride back the way we came. [...]
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Korea more egalitarian ’cause of Japan
Posted on January 16, 2009 by sleepingcow
An article in the IHT by Norimitsu Onishi about the buraku of Japan and their slow rise out of the traditional depths of Japan’s ancient social hierarchy, a rise — and article — that took inspiration from Obama’s election in the U.S. What caught my attention was a short graf in the middle that referred to [...]
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Ode to our flea bitten housemate
Posted on January 12, 2009 by sleepingcow
We’re down to our last week in Seoul’s southern ward and what I’m gonna miss the most is the raggedy little ball of fur that has occupied our backyard over the last year-and-a-half. His high-pitched yelp was the first thing that greeted my family when we first stepped through the gate of the house we’ve [...]
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