Sunday, December 25, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
uhh... Really?? Send Condolences to NK for kji's Death?
I had to come on to write this. I came across this article on KyungHyang news's opinion page. The idiots at KyungHyang news called on Korean government to send condolences to North Korea. (Sorry, the source is in Korean.) Source Really?? Send condolences to a man who killed millions of people and put millions in a gulag? Please, I hope the editorial board over at KyungHyang learns some common sense, or perhaps moral sense.
***Update***
According to LAT, given the opportunity, Korean government will allow South Koreans with ties to North Korea to pay a visit, but no official delegations will travel to North Korea to pay respects. I'm not quite sure what they mean by "South Koreans with ties." Do they mean South Koreans who have families in the north? Does this mean Japan will also allow North Koreans in Japan (pro-North Zainichi) to travel to North Korea to pay respects? I will wait for more update on this.
***Update***
According to LAT, given the opportunity, Korean government will allow South Koreans with ties to North Korea to pay a visit, but no official delegations will travel to North Korea to pay respects. I'm not quite sure what they mean by "South Koreans with ties." Do they mean South Koreans who have families in the north? Does this mean Japan will also allow North Koreans in Japan (pro-North Zainichi) to travel to North Korea to pay respects? I will wait for more update on this.
kim jong-il DEAD
North Korea's Dear Leader died on December 17, 2011 according to KCNA, North Korea's news network.
In the meantime, I decided to go to different news sources and capture front page headlines regarding the death of kim jong il.
- Here is one by New York Times
- Los Angeles Times
- BBC World
I'm sure this news is going around everywhere right now and I'm sure everybody has been keeping up with it. There are a lot of thoughts going on around this by many experts in Korean peninsula. I think I will need more time to let this situation unfold further before I can say anything or predict what I think is going to happen with Korean peninsula.kim jong il , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, passed away from a great mental and physical strain at 08:30 December 17, 2011, on train during a field guidance tour.
In the meantime, I decided to go to different news sources and capture front page headlines regarding the death of kim jong il.
- Here is one by New York Times
- Los Angeles Times
- Reuters
- CNN
- BBC World
- Telegraph
- Aljazeera
- Yonhap News Korea (The South)
- The Korea Times
- And finally... Korean Central News Agency (The North)
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Friday, December 9, 2011
Gunnie Weekly (Week of Dec. 5)
- I guess this news has been big all over Korean blogs or expat blogs. Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) is set to phase out native English teachers in public schools by 2014. (source here and here) If this deal does happen, I'm going to assume that there will be more native English teachers applying for a position at private English hagwons in Korea. Will this mean we are going to see less Gyopo (Korean-American) gangsters at private hagwons with fake degrees??? I hope so. (another source)
- Through the eyes of Zhu Feng, his view of North Korea. (TheInterpreter) I recommend reading this article if you wanted to know what China's view of North Korea is.
- This is a good news for me. Korean national football team coach, Cho Kwang-rae is fired. I never liked the guy and his style of coach. It felt like Korea's football went back to the 80s.
- This news is little old, but as I mentioned before, KORUS FTA passed in Korea after some fight and some idiot threw a tear gas during the parliamentary session. (source) But do you know what? I'm not embarrassed at all about it. This is how we get things done in Korea. Hell yeah~
- The idiot who threw a tear gas during the parliamentary session for KORUS FTA (his name is Kim Sun-dong btw), became a national hero AND he escaped punishment.
- For your pleasure of learning about Korea's past, Robert Neff, one of my favorite contributing writer at KoreaTimes wrote some interesting columns about Korea's past. You can read it here and here.
- Through the eyes of Zhu Feng, his view of North Korea. (TheInterpreter) I recommend reading this article if you wanted to know what China's view of North Korea is.
- This is a good news for me. Korean national football team coach, Cho Kwang-rae is fired. I never liked the guy and his style of coach. It felt like Korea's football went back to the 80s.
- This news is little old, but as I mentioned before, KORUS FTA passed in Korea after some fight and some idiot threw a tear gas during the parliamentary session. (source) But do you know what? I'm not embarrassed at all about it. This is how we get things done in Korea. Hell yeah~
- The idiot who threw a tear gas during the parliamentary session for KORUS FTA (his name is Kim Sun-dong btw), became a national hero AND he escaped punishment.
- For your pleasure of learning about Korea's past, Robert Neff, one of my favorite contributing writer at KoreaTimes wrote some interesting columns about Korea's past. You can read it here and here.
EBS Experiment
Found this clip on youtube. EBS or Educational Broadcasting System (http://www.ebs.co.kr/index.jsp) is the educational television in South Korea. They do a little experiment on how Koreans are willing to help out foreigners depending on their skin color.
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