Yes, welcome to Korea where you can not only get sent to jail for a year-and-a-half for adultery (if you’re a woman), but apprently for seduction as well.
Guilty as charged. Ahem. The story only identifies the player as “Mr. A,” but he was arrested in Inchon and is a “star” player. Apparently police waited to make the arrest so that the player could part...... [Show More]
It has been another month of positive growth for the ROK Drop with both page views and uniques continuing to steadily grow. The continued growth of the site is thanks to all the referrers and readers that continue to visit the site. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for reading the ROK Drop.
November 2008 ROK Drop Statistics (Note: Stats from Bluehost Awstats)
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What has happened to The Marmot ? There hasn’t been a post in like three days.
I feel a disturbance in the force...as though millions of voices suddenly cried out at once...and were suddenly silenced.......... [Show More]
Twee weken geleden meldde de Financial Times dat het Koreaanse Daewoo Logistics Corporation 1,3 miljoen hectare landbouwgrond in Madagaskar voor 99 jaar gaat leasen. Dat is ongeveer de helft van de totaal beschikbare landbouwgrond op Madagaskar. In een land dat vaste klant is bij het UN World Food Programme én waar 50% van de jonge kinderen door ondervoeding een groei-achterstand * verto...... [Show More]
Michelle Rhee, the new chancellor running the District of Columbia Public Schools system has gotten a long write up in Time magazine. Here is just a small sample-
Her appointment stunned the city. Rhee, then 37, had no experience running a school, let alone a district with 46,000 students that ranks last in math among 11 urban school systems. When [Mayor Adrian] Fenty called her, she was runni...... [Show More]
The Koreas
Korean pop singer Rain’s “Magic Stick” has been banned by Korean authorities .
A new English only radio station in Seoul is going to premier next month and one of the hosts is one of the hottest radio hosts I have seen.
I think Seodaemun would be a good place to construct a comfort women museum but this particular Korean group does not. Are these guys asshats?...... [Show More]
Via the Marmot’s Hole comes this link to some great photographs of the Chinese People Liberation Army (PLA) during the Korean War. Here is a sample of some of these great pictures:
American soldiers captured after trying to escape in their Jeep.
Chinese soldiers being entertained by North Korean dancing girls. Notice how young the Chinese soldiers look.
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Some how I missed this from earlier in the week but what a horrible story this is:
A court handed down suspended jail terms to four family members who repeatedly raped a teenage relative who suffered from an intellectual disability.
The Cheongju District Court Thursday sentenced an 87-year-old grandfather and two uncles of a 16-year-old girl to four-year suspended prison terms for sexual...... [Show More]
The Seoul Shinmun recently interviewed Mr. Lee Eun-ung, a member of the Anti-English Spectrum Cafe that works for the deportation of English teachers who are either unqualified, do drugs, or have sex with Korean women. Link includes video with further portions of the interview, including an accusation that some foreign teachers commit sexual assault.
Hat tip to The Marmot’s Hole .
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Sdkorea hat vor kurzem die Hlfte alles bebaubaren Landes in Madagaskar gepachtet, wie die Financial Times berichtet. Das hat eine ziemliche Debatte in der Blogosphre Madagaskars ber die Souvernitt des Landes und die konomische Entwicklung ausgelst. Es steht noch nicht fest, ob der Pachtvertrag wirklich schon von beiden Seiten unterzeichnet wurde. In der Zwischenzeit diskutieren Blogger, ob...... [Show More]
Today’s winner is Cheongju District Court Judge Oh Jun-geun. He gets the award for the following -
A court handed down suspended jail terms to four family members who repeatedly raped a teenage relative who suffered from an intellectual disability.
The Cheongju District Court Thursday sentenced an 87-year-old grandfather and two uncles of a 16-year-old girl to four-year suspended priso...... [Show More]
The ugliest piece of architecture in the world is getting a facelift. Yes, the Ryugyong Hotel after being abandoned for 16 years is having glass panels installed .
Why don’t they just tear down the monstrosity some call ’Hotel of Doom’, ’Phantom Hotel’, or The ’Phantom Pyramid’? In Asia saving face is often more important than displaying commo...... [Show More]
Raha inoana ny nolazain'ny Financial Times dia hanofa ny atsasaky ny tany azo volena eto Madagasikara ny Koreana Tatsimo. Niteraka adihevitra teo amin'ny tontolom-bolongana malagasy mikasika ny fiandriana m-pirenena sy ny fampandrosoana ara-toe-karena izany. Mbola tsy mazava moa hatramin'izao hoe efa nosoniavin'ny roa tonta ve ny fifanarahana? Na izany aza dia efa ifandresen -dahatra.. .... [Show More]
i ii.. Post Source: blog.jinbo.net Posted: Nov 24 2008 13:44:49
Although the following article about the GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS isn’t the newest, it has been already published seven month ago (4.14) in the German bourgeois magazine Der Spiegel , but the main subject is still up to date. Particularly after last week’s news that "Korea’s Daewoo Leases an Area Half of the Size of Belgium in Madagascar for Free" (*), as...... [Show More]
La Corée du Sud vient de louer la moitié des terres arables de Madagascar, selon le Financial Times. Ceci provoque un vigoureux débat dans la blogosphère malgache sur la souveraineté des Malgaches sur leurs terres et sur le développement économique. Il n'est toujours pas clair si les deux gouvernement ont effectivement signé l'accord. Mais les blogueurs débattent déjà de ce ...... [Show More]
South Korea has just leased half of all the arable land in Madagascar according to the Financial Times. This has stirred quite a debate in the Malagasy blogosphere about land sovereignty and economic development. It is still unclear whether the land deal has actually been signed by both parties. Meanwhile, bloggers are arguing whether this sort of deal should be considered “ neo-colonialism ”....... [Show More]
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Put a healthy Kim Jong-il in all your pictures. See? Look. He’s healthy.
Everything’s fine. Really.
PANELISTS
Robert Koehler ( The Marmot’s Hole )
Kim Hogg ( Socius )
Derek ( The Midni...... [Show More]
I feel grateful for the academy and my teacher,” wrote one student on the website of another school , Posang Club, adding that he had paid several hundred dollars for lessons. Eight million won? Gee, that’s a lot. …
Digital photography by unknown...... [Show More]
Yesterday the Chosun Ilbo editorialized on the need for discrimination against foreigners to be lessened and a somewhat fuzzy vision of multiculturalism embraced.
The city of Ansan has said it will establish a “Foreigners Ordinance” to protect the rights of foreigners living there. The ordinance would provide legal aid to fight discrimination based on skin color, race, and langua...... [Show More]
I am a frequent traveler which means I spend a lot of time reading either in airports, airplanes, and hotels. This means that I have to carry around a lot of books and magazines with me while I travel which was definitely the case during my recent trip to Hong Kong . Now that I am back in the US, I decided to make the decision and go ahead and buy an Amazon Kindle :
I had seen the Kin...... [Show More]
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The Life of a Seoul Man
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Recently the South Korean Navy held their 2008 Fleet Review:
A fleet of over 50 warships from the South Korean Navy and 12 other nations was on display during the 2008 International Fleet Review in the waters off Busan. South Korea’s state-of-the-art Aegis destroyer, Sejong the Great and Asia’s Largest Landing Ship, Dokdo, were displayed in this event. [ KBS Global ]
Here a...... [Show More]
I am usually the first person to point out wacky Korean nationalists such as knife in the gut man , hammer man , flag eater man , finger chopping ajumma , the Dokdo Riders , and my favorite of all bee man . Well I would be wrong if I didn’t point out wacky Japanese nationalists from time to time as well and the latest is this group of Japanese lawmakers concerned about Koreans encro...... [Show More]
Japanese lawmakers are concerned about creeping Korean imperialism on Tsushima Island in the form of Korean investment: In the latest territorial flap between South Korea and Japan, a bipartisan group of …
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Ueno Park and Environs Guide - Tokyo :: Japan Visitor
27 Jul 2006 Reading room upstairs (in Japanese only) - accessible from outside stairs. In the East Garden, check out the Five-Storey Pagoda (an original fixture from Kaneiji Temple) across from the elephan... [Show More]
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