Senin, 31 Agustus 2009

Ask a Korean! News: Special Request from Mr. Joo Seong-Ha

Readers of AAK! know how much the Korean loves Mr. Joo Seong-Ha, who writes Nambukstory. (Search for "nambuk" in this blog to find the collection of translated articles by Mr. Joo.) So when Joo wrote a post asking someone to translate, the Korean had to jump on it. Below is the post. (Link to the post in Korean.)Do the Right...

Great article on older immigrants in today's New York Times:"Yet experts say that America’s ethnic elderly are among the most isolatedpeople in America. Seventy percent of recent older immigrants speak little or noEnglish. Most do not drive. Some studies suggest depression and psychologicalproblems are widespread, the result of language barriers, a lack of socialconnections and values that sometimes...

Minggu, 30 Agustus 2009

Dog – It’s What’s for Dinner

Dear Korean,I heard that people eat dog meat in Korea. Is it something special, or do they put the dog meat to any meaty meal?SibeliusDear Sibelius,The answer is no. Dog-eating is one of the things for which is Korea is notorious, and much of it is distorted or misunderstood. For example, Wikipedia’s page on dog meat consumption...

Rabu, 26 Agustus 2009

The nutcase who stole Choi Jin-Sil's ashes was arrested. He claims that Choi showed up his dreams and asked him to let her o...

Selasa, 18 Agustus 2009

Former Korean president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae-Jung passed away last night. He was 83.One of the Korean's favorite quotes is from Kim: "Conscience that does not act is on the side of evi...

Minggu, 16 Agustus 2009

This is interesting. A South Korean company is planning to sell bottled water extracted out of the D...

Ask a Korean! News: Gyopo Makeup

Here is an extremely interesting article from Dong-A Ilbo (albeit with questionable journalistic standard and near-total ignorance about America,) which somewhat ties into the tanning question and immigrant time warp.If you don't know, "gyopo" is a Korean term for Koreans living outside of Korea. For the record, the Korean...

Holy shit. Someone broke into Choi Jin-sil's grave and stole her ash...

Sabtu, 15 Agustus 2009

압박과 설움에서 해방된 민족싸우고 또 싸워서 되찾은 이 ...

Jumat, 14 Agustus 2009

Crime and Punishment in Korea

Dear Korean,I hear that the crime rate is rising in South Korea, despite the good economy. Do you have any theories about the rising crime rate in South Korea?AnonymouseDear Anonymouse,Is the crime rate rising in Korea? To see if that is true, there is no better place to look than the website of the National Police Agency in...

Happy birthday, Magic Johns...

Selasa, 11 Agustus 2009

Ask a Korean! News: Deja Vu, Anyone?

At the first sign of Barack Obama doing something big and disputed like the healthcare reform, political discourse in America has been getting uglier and uglier such that utterly stupid people are dominating the news.First, we have the birthers, like this lovely lady right here:What is a "birther", you ask? This New York Times...

Minggu, 09 Agustus 2009

Ask a Korean! News: Double Dose of Joo Seong-Ha on Euna Lee and Laura Ling

Two recent posts from the Korean's favorite North Korea blog Nambukstory were very interesting. If you don't know, the proprietor Joo Seong-Ha of Nambukstory is a graduate of Kim Il-Sung University and was on track to be an elite officer in North Korea, until he defected the country. He was actually captured in China and sent...