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Travel in Korea still lacks women’s bathrooms
Some journalists took unusual looks at the recent Seollal holiday. Among was this MBC reporter. (Formatting is true to the original transcript.) [Newsdesk]◀ＡＮＣ▶ Whenever there is a holiday, women wind up waiting in…
Vietnamese brides face troubles in Korea
The Joongang Ilbo recently looked at some coming changes in Korean law to screen out brokered international marriages likely to end in divorce or worse. This coincides with Vietnamese newswire Tuoi Tre News‘…
Korean tigers return… sort of
It seems that the question of whether Korean tigers can make a comeback is at the first step towards having an answer. The Korea Forest Service has brought from China two Baekdu-san tigers….
Earthquake practice in Seoul
Seoul schoolchildren recently practiced what to do in the event of an earthquake at a facility created by the Seoul fire department.
The true origins of Korean pizza
I have no idea if it’s actually produced by Mr. Pizza as it seems to claim, but someone called Gumshoe Pictures has put together a pretty amusing video in which various Koreans pretend…
New documentary addresses biracial Koreans
Ask A Korean! has posted a translation of a very interesting, thoughtful Kyunghyang Shinmun article on the treatment of biracial Koreans and the heavy discrimination they suffer.
Do you know South Korea?
A fellow named David Dutton has put together a great video documenting what looks to have been an epic trip in Korea. It really captures the Korean experience – the energy, the contrasts,…
Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — August 21, 2011
Top 10 in society. 1. Possible UFOs were supposedly filmed in Daejeon. 2. In the case of three Korea University med students who molested a female classmate after she had passed out (referred…
Private photos of Rhee Syngman published
Journalist Ahn Byeong-hun has turned up a cache of 612 private photos of Rhee Syngman, the first president of South Korea. Four of them can be viewed at the Chosun Ilbo, including this…
Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — August 7, 2011
Top 11 in society: 1. Former singer Lee Gwang-pil was assaulted by a grandmother in a McDonald’s. This is a thing that actually happened. 2. There’s a restroom for female public servants which…
