SeoulPodcast #27: The Life of an Artist
Podcast November 2nd, 2008
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Starcraft. The national sport of Korea.
PANELIST
Luke Martin (ROKetship)
MAIN TOPIC
Making the most of being an artist in Korea
NEWS AND STUFF
South Korea cuts rates record amount to tackle crisis – Yahoo! News
The ratio of debt to disposable income has risen sharply, especially debt to non-bank lenders, which charge higher rates than banks.
US Beef Accounts for Nearly Half of Beef Imports
Gov’t Urges Swift US Inspection of Korean Food Exports
Labor violations at Kiryung Electronics Factory.
Court to Rule on Constitutionality of Adultery
It’s Official: Melamine Has Ruined Everything
Chocolate-flavoured Body Spreads Contain Melamine:
The Food Standards Agency has issued a food alert about novelty food products from China, including chocolate-flavoured ‘willy spread’, containing melamine.
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?
VANK to lose government support.
Singaporean Textbook Shows Korean Homeless Guy, World Stops Revolving
Korean Textbooks “Also Wrong on Dokdo”
Korean Schools: “Stay Right There! Don’t Move!”
Korea Beat’s comments at the bottom are good
Residency restrictions for international schools.
Nobel Obsession (II) (Seoul Searcher)
Most-Read Naver Stories of the Week — October 26, 2008
3. A group of particularly mindless netizens are criticizing Korean entertainers who – gasp! – spent a lot of money visiting China during the Olympics, and even took pictures of their trip and posted them on their Cyworld pages. Horrifying, I know.
Ye Olde Chosun warns of the horrors of porn addiction:
Pornography addiction was once seen as a problem for adolescents, and it was only cyber nannies aimed at the young that screened out “adult” content. The sites also usually require customers to prove their age. But is porn just a danger to children? Experts say no.
One of the worst aspects of porn addiction is that it can discourage the normal sexual relationship between couples. Prof. Kim Sung of Korea Bible University, a counselor at the Center for Internet Addiction Prevention and Counseling, said, “The porn addiction cycle gets shorter and shorter as addicts look for ever stronger thrills. Inevitably they become numb in normal relationships.”
There are physical problems associated with porn addiction, too:
Porn addiction can also damage your health. For many it is difficult to watch porn in the daytime when other family members are around, so people usually watch it in a dark room late at night, and as a result suffer from lack of sleep, fatigue and deteriorating eyesight.
Which is why your Uncle Marmot says you should always watch your porn in a well-lit room.
If addiction becomes serious and leads to paraphilias like voyeurism and exhibitionism, it can result in legal punishment or require psychiatric treatment. It also makes it difficult for the addict to live a normal social life at school or work. The images linger in the mind and often distract addicts from concentrating on work. They sometimes leave the office to go to adult-only cyber cafés, and some serious addicts turn to sexual violence in trying to imitate what they have seen.
Oh my!
Luckily, there is a cure — straight out of “A Clockwork Orange”:
Like many other addictions, porn addiction is not easy to cure. The most widely accepted treatment is telephone counseling, often accompanied by cognitive behavioral therapy. For example, doctors create an unpleasant atmosphere around the experience, such as making the patients smell garbage or giving them mild electric shocks while watching porn. This is intended to program their brains to remember watching porn as a negative experience. Diverting the patients’ attention to other things such as sports and music also helps.
More about Jeju’s foreigner ghetto.
Vietnam War Memorial Village opens in Hwacheon.
Meetings Open On Designating DMZ A World Heritage Area
Seoul Police Failing to Uncover Child Sexual Abuse
EXPAT COMMUNITY
::A Geek in Korea:: » Blog Archive » Nightmare Wedding.
My Halloween Costume: Korean Parking Security Guard!
What are some good Halloween costumes?
The 35 Most Insane Halloween Costumes from Around the World | Cracked.com
So I went on a Korean Game show
TIME WASTERS OF THE WEEK
Banpo Bridge Dancing Fountains (Ask a Korean)
YouTube – Nirvana’s Lithium covered by Korean Punk Band No-Brain
Looks like some massage parlor in the US used the lovely Ha Ji-won in its advertisements.
What to get me for Christmas
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NEXT WEEK
Roundtable discussion
MUSIC
Main Theme — Ben McPherson – “2wksnyc”
News — satya – “Silk Route Album Mix”
Things That Make You Go Whaa? — cjacks – “Candyland”
ExPat Community — Deyo – “Retro90210fun”
Time Wasters of the Week — EV Boyz – “Kickin’ It in Geumchon”
Adam Schmitt
Anomie Enemy
Blue Valentine
Kathy Reynolds
Jeremiah Fleming
Robin Stine
Byron Scullin
Victor Stellar
Kaveh
REGGAE FAR EAST
El Soter
Sleaze Patrol
curious hands
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Um. That link over to the right. With Stafford.
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Wow.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 am
If a foreign country used a photo of a homeless person in almost any North American city, we’d mostly go “wow, what a failure of our society. This is how other nations have come to view us. We need to make things better here.”
Of course we might not do dick, but we wouldn’t conclude the best response is to crash the servers of anything with an .sg domain.
Yah know?
November 6th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Let’s celebrate the introduction of grunge to Korea! Now, instead of just being 20 years behind the times, Korea is only 15-10! I am definetely seeing that the more laid-back casual look is becoming more common. The opening band at my college’s festival was also a Nirvana cover band.
As far as the Chinese massage parlor in California using a Korean’s celebrity image goes, I wonder how many Japanese models and pin-up girls appreciate their images being used to advertise Korean “massage” rooms. I wonder how many of those girls on the fliers are actually Korean.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Thank you for using my music.