Jason Williams is retiring.The Korean remembers all the legendary Lakers - Kings games of the late 90s~early 00s, and watching J-Will's career start was a rare treat. The man had an amazing court vision, and ballhandling skills like no other. If he did not decline so rapidly in his later years, he would have been just as good as Steve Nash.Thank you for the memories J-Will. Hope your retirement life...

Ask a Korean! News! - North Korean Arcades are Incredibly Sad

You are a strapping North Korean child. Your parents are middling officers of the Central Party, so you have escaped the dire starvation that afflicts the peasants. Heck, you might even have some coins to spend. It's been a long day of saluting, marching, shooting, and singing the glory of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader....

Good article on New York Times about how to deal with different cultur...

Can you tell the Korean has been catching up with Deadspin lately?Well, today is a story of a high school football team that won the game by repeatedly calling the opposing players n----- until the other team quit, and the story of the same high school principal saying his team would have been better off not playing teams "out of the area".The Korean still stands by his belief that America is the...

Today will be remembered as the day when House Republicans euthanized John McCain's miserable campai...

Tim Kawakami is an excellent sports writer cover Bay Area sports, including Oakland Raiders. Here, he recalls a conversation with Al Davis, owner of the Raiders.It was at the press conference announcing the hiring of Kiffin. Afterwards I was talking to Al, and remarked that I thought it was a strange hire, given that Kiffin was so young and had no head coaching experience. Al didn't like that, and...

The Korean once wrote about Korean men's drinking habits. As it turns out, Korean women are not too far behind either.From Korea Be...

Ask a Korean! Guest Blogger - GI Korea: Why do GIs Complain about Korea?

IntroductionRecently there were cooperative cross postings on Roboseyo’s blog as well as Ask A Korean on Why Expats Complain About Korea? The cross postings drew a lot of debate around the Korean blogosphere on why expats complain so much about living in the Land of the Morning Calm. Well in the same spirit The Korean and I thought it would make for interesting reading if I posted on why GI’s Complain...

Why do Koreans Complain about U.S. Military in Korea?

Dear Korean, Why do Koreans complain about the U.S. military force in Korea? GI Korea Dear GI Korea,Allow the Korean first to express his admiration for your blog, ROK Drop. The Korean has been looking forward to this cross-posting for some time.No matter what the detractors of U.S. military in Korea may say, when push comes...

Ask a Korean! News: Say Hello to Everyone's Girlfriend, Our New Associate Editor

The ever-growing Ask a Korean! empire welcomes another associate editor to the fold. Yeochin is a lady of mid-20s who teaches English in Incheon, Korea. Finally, an expat representation at the Ask a Korean! family.Yeochin hails from West Hollywood, California, and has the distinction of having previously worked with Gustavo...

One of the Korean's posts is featured on the Korea Herald. (Under "Special", the headline is: Why do expats here complain so much? Sorry, but KH website does not have individual links to articles.) And the hate mails are coming...-EDIT 9/23/08 8:13 a.m.- Mr. Editor at Korea Herald told the Korean that he received a few phone calls expressing positive reception. Hopefully the phone calls outweigh the...

Recent testimony from the surviving members of Unit 731 reveals that live human experimentations, such as vivisection without anesthesia, were performed on American and British prisoners as well. Roughly 5,000 people, including 1,203 independence fighters, died as test subjects for Unit 731. (Article in Korean, but click for the picture -- the man on the table is still aliv...

The Korean decided to change the look of the blog. No more stupid questions!Hope you guys like it.-EDIT 9/18/08 9:07 p.m. EST- After some suggestions, the Korean made the font a little larger and the background whi...

The Korean works right next to the Ground Zero. Getting to work in the morning, the thousands of people passing by were unusually quiet.In memori...

The taint of WWII-era Germany is so strong that, more than 60 years later, there are some Americans protesting the naming rights of a German company to a new Giants/Jets stadium. This is after the company recognized its past and paid millions in restitution. The Korean thinks the protest is somewhat silly, but he cannot help but compare how taint-free Japanese companies a...

Rather cool article on Dong-A Ilbo: Recently revealed documents from the U.S. National Archives say there were some 80 Koreans who served at the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in the 1940s. These Koreans were focused on various covert operations to sabotage the Japanese war efforts during World War II. (Article in Korea...

The Ultimate Korean Looks List – How to Pick Koreans from Other Asians Just by Looking at Them

Dear Korean,So many people tell me they can tell the difference between Asian groups (i.e. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). I can't. Are there REALLY distinctive physical features that can instantly tell a person's nationality, and what are they?JoanneDear Joanne,Are there really distinctive features among Asians?...

Here is an interesting survey: HSBC ranked best countries for expats, and Singapore ranked top, followed by U.S. and U...