Gunnie Weekly

I know... It's been a while since I made my last post.

Because I'm a newbie blogger, I will be trying out different things on my blog. If you see changes, regarding posts, subjects, topics, and etc, it's okay. I think that's what newbie bloggers are supposed to do.

Anyways, Gunnie Weekly is going to be and it will be mix of news regarding South/North Korea mostly and other interesting topics I find. Here is this week's:


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***** Flood claims lives of 60 people in Seoul. (here)

A total of 10,776 people from 5,193 households have fled their residences in fear of more flooding and landslides, including 1,638 people in 1,048 households in Seoul, and 8,962 people from 4,071 homes in Gyeonggi Province.

The rain that fell in July in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province has beaten the previous record of 390.6 mm set in July, 1940.

Here are some clips of the landslid, the flood and its aftermath. Just click on the URL since I can't bring it over to my blog.

ChoonChun Landslide

Flood....

More flood...

Flood in the bus

Aftermath

My prayer goes out to all the families who lost their loved ones.


***** This has been big this week - Three Japanese lawmakers were denied entry at Gimpo (김포) Airport. (from here and here)

"Yoshitaka Shindo, Tomomi Inada, and Masahisa Sato of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party had planned to visit Ulleung Island on a mission to stress Japan's dubious territorial claim to Korea's Dokdo islets." 

Well.. they were warned notified that they were going to be denied entry once they land. Yet, they still came. After they were denied entry, they were at Gimpo for about 9 hours before they go on ANA and left. For those who are wondering what they were doing for 9 nine hours, apparently, they had a nice bowl of bibimbap and bought some gim (dried seaweed) to take home. (Bibimbap and Gim)

And of course, Koreans were doing what they are good at, protesting by lighting candles banners.

Just putting this news out there for those who are thinking "those Koreans are so mean... Those nice looking Japanese men just wanted to look at the island... (and possible take it over while they were there)"

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Random news I found interesting: Lee Bu-jin (이부진), daughter of Lee Kun-hee (이건희) (not me), the owner of Samsung, carpooled together to work. (Here) According to the report, this is the first time the father and the daughter carpooled to work together.

Maybe "take-your-daughter-to-work-day is catching on in Korea. Which reminds me of Arrested Development  episode of take-your-daughter-to-work-day.

Or maybe she realized how cool/hip/awesome her dad's car is. If my father rode around in Rolls Royce Phantom, I think I'd carpool with him everyday.

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