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News

US soldier accused of raping Korean teen
SKorea: US soldier to be indicted for sexually assaulting teen | Asian Correspondent
Oh, for the love of Christ…

Police arrest man for indecent assault against a foreign teacher

Positive Developments in Laws on Sexual Assault

SKorea: Extradition imminent in Itaewon Burger King murder?

Things That Make You Go Whaa?

Some of these are truly head scratching–Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — October 9, 2011
1. A study of time spent studying by high school students in Korea, Japan, China, and America found that Korean students spend by far the most time studying. Americans came fourth at six hours per day, with Japan and China at seven hours per day with Saturday classes (although actually many Japanese schools have abolished Saturday classes).

2. With the upcoming release of the film “The Crucible”, based on the sexual abuse scandal at the Gwangju Inhwa School, a diary written by a female prosecutor during the trial was published online.

3. A doctor was arrested on charges of repeatedly sexually assaulting a nurse beginning six years ago and recording the attacks on video.

4. A second American soldier was accused of sexually assaulting a Korean teenager.

5. A driver in Seongnam who was also a pastor was killed in a car accident, leaving his family bereft.

6. An Incheon bus driver had a heart attack and died while waiting for a red light.

7. A young man was struck and killed by a car on the highway after he ran after a bus he needed to catch.

8. A man confessed to groping a jogger after pulling her pants off because he liked her legs.

9. An article about high school students learning to express their frustrations in poetry.

10. Police officers on their way home from work apprehended a sexual assault suspect.

Gusts Of Popular Feeling: The true origin of pizza
Creative Korean Advertising #26: Koreans Laughing at Themselves

Ha! The weaknesses just reveal the weaknesses in Korean computing habits–A smaller, faster Web-based laptop

Kpop Can’t Take Over America. Neither Can Anybody

Reebok Assvertising Full of Hot Air: Korean Reactions

SKorea lacks system to curb corporate abuses

Time Wasters

I’m Korean, I have a book that proves it! « Eugene is huge!

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Steve Jobs-The King is dead! Long live the King
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/10/182_96161.html
Samsung pushes to ban sale of iPhone 4S
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2011/10/133_96091.html
Samsung profit predicted to fall
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2011/10/182_96157.html
4S Underwhelms
http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/faster-lighter-new-named-apple-phone-announced-4442860

News
The Constitutional Court rules on the Vandom case:
http://bit.ly/o3zNYO
Korean schools helpless in the face of foreign English teachers:
http://bit.ly/qiord9
Teachers committing sex crimes to be disciplined and disadvantaged in recruiting
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/10/117_96132.html
SKorea: Female teacher jailed for assaulting student:
http://bit.ly/n0HgBE
230,000 3 time drunk drivers
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2011/10/113_96156.html
G-Dragon avoids Drugs Charge
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/10/178_96144.html
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/html/386/2942386.html?cloc=joongangdaily|home|online

US soldier accused of raping Korean teen:
http://bit.ly/ocEPHD
SKorea: Taxi driver sticks his car where the sun don’t shine:
http://bit.ly/pMa8JD
SKorea: Japanese soccer team taunted over earthquake | Asian Correspondent: http://bit.ly/rrMOfE

Ain’t No Party Like a Pyongyang Party’ Cause a Pyongyang Party is Absolutely Mandatory!: http://bit.ly/nRjL7e
NK has hand out again
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/10/113_96158.html

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Police spent two years developing a new traffic light system, but forgot to warn the public before rolling out tests in downtown Seoul. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936301

US soldiers to be stationed on Baengnyeong Island, if South Korea gets its way. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936296

Kim Jong-Il’s health better enough for Cuban heels. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936290

Kia to implement “one price” policy on cars. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936278

A new documentary out about one North Korean refugee’s experiences in the South. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936295

Get your vacation currency now: the won is falling. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936271

Smartphones: just for the elite? I don’t think so… http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936239

Korean mini-skirts make the BBC. http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2011/05/bbc-skirts-topic.html

Five places to skip on a Korean vacation. http://www.chrisinsouthkorea.com/2011/05/coming-to-korea-5-places-to-pass-on-while-traveling-seoul/

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North Korea threatens to retaliate against leaflets. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935245

Seo Taiji was married?! People care?! http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935242

Subway groper high court judge (not foreign teacher) http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935244

Foreign teacher sexually assaulted by a group of students in Anyang http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2011/04/native-speaking-teacher-sexually.html They were undoubtedly drunk and curious.

Don’t worry, foreigners are still untrustworthy and dangerous http://www.rjkoehler.com/2011/04/18/english-teacher-flees-korea-before-trial-for-assault-on-taxi-driver/

You got your Apple in my Samsung! You got your Samsung in my Apple! http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935235 (one link, but there are a bajillion stories)

Korea tobacco growers think Australian anti-smoking legislation is in violation of fair trade, or some crap like that http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935231 I just hope they don’t dismember any animals.

Founder of SM Entertainment lectures Stanford business students on how to create a pop machine http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935217

Now even medical journals are painting foreign teachers as alcoholics, well the illegal ones, but they’re hard to find, so they want to test the E2s http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2011/04/accurately-determining-if-e2s-are.html

Take the late-night intercity bus at your own peril http://thegrandnarrative.com/2011/04/13/korea-sexual-harrasment-buses-travel/

ROK Military opens to mixed-race enlistees http://www.rjkoehler.com/2011/04/18/rok-military-goes-multi-ethnic/

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ATEK interview
http://thethreewisemonkeys.com/2011/03/21/atek-the-great-white-hoax/
http://thethreewisemonkeys.com/2011/03/28/atek-the-great-white-hoax-pt-2/
http://thethreewisemonkeys.com/2011/04/04/atek-the-great-white-hoax-pt-3/

News

What the F*ck is going on at KAIST?
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2011/04/14/i-think-suhs-ok-but-english-lectures-are-a-bad-idea/

Are Japanese Fleeing to Korea?
http://bit.ly/dKpane
How about the Gaijin (Fly-jin)
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/03/21/flyjin-my-decision-to-stay-in-japan/
http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/flyjin/

Is Kim Jung Un really next in line or s it a media beat up?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kushibo/~3/tg_pJsZinbw/after-anti-climactic-meet-up-in.html

Happy Birthday Kim Il Sung
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RokDrop/~3/ZcGPHzBgEiY/
North Korean Kindergartenkids play guitar
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2011/04/13/mini-comrades-on-guitar/

Meltdowns– Not Just for Japan Anymore
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934825

Things that make you go whaa?

Telecom Hegemony 끝
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934826

Korean eHarmony
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934772

Korean Teachers Grade Fixing
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934572

Seoul Metro Gov’t Wants You
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934677

Hyundai Capital Hacked despite more Active X controls than you can shake a stick at http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934671

Expat Community

Idiot foreigner runs onto a baseball field
http://asiancorrespondent.com/51765/idiot-foreigner-runs-onto-field-at-korean-baseball-game/
Chris saw a vagina
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/chrisinsouthkorea/~3/bzK3_YaW7n4/

Time Wasters

JYP Itaewon Freedom
http://youtu.be/3N8c1t1QTDI
Post Liberation photos
http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2011/04/photos-of-post-liberation-korea.html
Nail Buffing to be added to CPI?
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2011/04/05/nail-buffing-a-new-sign-of-korean-spending/?mod=WSJBlog
Star Me
http://star.me

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PANELIST

Daniel Craig, Seoul Daddy, Daniel Craig.com

NEWS

NASA reveals extent of snow covering Koreas

Economists, activists puzzle over Bank of Korea rate decision. – Korea Real Time – WSJ

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?

Culture and Law

Oh geez–’Abandoning homeless to die is not crime’

Bra Day, Valentine’s Day, and other fabricated consumer holidays.
Coffee & Korea . . .
The Drunkest Places In The World: Pics, Videos, Links, News

Things I’ve Learned about Korea by doing the Radio Show
4. The secretary general of the Korea smokers’ association doesn’t like people using the term “smokers” – he prefers “cigarette consumers” because it’s less stigmatized.
The Pedestrian Aggressiveness Scale
Memo to The Korea Times

No Pants Subway Ride In Taiwan

Tech

Apple buying itself a seat at the Korean all-you-can-eat buffet
Strange Bait for Fishing . . .

Brand Korea
Korea to perform harakiri if Pyongchang fails to get 2018 Winter Olympics
Korea Tourism Organization attracting morbidly obese foreigners.
Education
Graduation celebration ends with kids tied up and abandoned

Budget cuts put GEPIK teachers in limbo.

EXPAT COMMUNITY

Canadian Embassy talkie talkie
Newspaper accounts of the 1998 murder of a foreign teacher

TIME WASTERS

Middle School Proverbs
Taekwondo Toddlers [VIDEO]

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MAIN TOPIC

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Apple settles with iPhone Toilet dropper
10.1’’ Galaxy Tab in the works - Engadget Korea
iPad2 to use Super PLS - KH

NEWS

South Korea Hails Mubarak Resignation – KT
Money quote: “We hope everyone in Egypt can reach a peaceful and rational conclusion to complete the democratization process.” – Bae Eun-hee, GNP spokeswoman

Facebook Vs. Cyworld - MH

North Koreans burning official portraits, not of Kim Jong Un - MI
KJI has married again and has another son!!?? -WSJ
NK Military supposidly goes on strike amid food shortage – Arirang

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?

Trains good, Planes Bad
Green Line delays -Kowiana
KTX derailed just south of Gwangmyeon -Kowiana

Speaking of putting your train in a tunnel
Cambodian Wife cuts Off Husbands Wang -BJ

NHRC issues warning over corporal punishment -KB

Milk Shortage -AP

Korea.net revamps site recruits bloggers
Team Conan brings the Korea(n school girls)
Muju Bikini Ski Festival - How did we miss this?
Bae Yong Joon publishes book, Japanese Housewives go mental

EXPAT COMMUNITY

Stafford got a letter from Immigration – CB
Joe and Stafford on SBS eating more bloody Octopus – CB
Behind the Picture: Lie Sang Bong

Fancy a Bum? -MH
Canadian Talkfest next weekend -GPF
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics, and then there are E2 English teachers -GPF
And then there are the defectors -WSJ

TIME WASTERS

Your mission – Don’t see The Mission -JD
How Koreans Do Spin Class [VIDEO]

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NEWS

Arirang – Korean wives pick their husbands as least favorite people during Seollal

Lost on Jeju: The Korean Media’s Desperate Search For Compliments

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?

Culture and Law

S. Koreans Slimmest Among People in OECD

Smoking Banned In Some Seoul Public Plazas

Tech

High return rate for Galaxy Tab — is it tablet remorse? | ZDNet
NGP (PSP2?) and Xperia Play

Brand Korea
Top 10 Images, Cliches, and Other Annoying Contrivances That Korean Culture Promoters Should Stop Using
Korean Tourism Media Campaign: “Come Home to Korea”
Education
SKorea: Despite ban, corporal punishment continues
naked graduation ceremonies
One in three Korean teachers uses EBS in classroom
Teacher caught taking hefty bribes

EXPAT COMMUNITY

“The main culprits in drug smuggling are native speaking teachers”

Korea Chronicles #1 Is In the Bag!

TIME WASTERS

10 Cool Tips for Driving in Korea | GRRRL TRAVELER
Ten Facts about Driving in Seoul
worst website in the world http://bit.ly/9H7qvE
Kind Of Disturbed By Kim Jong-il’s Favorite Movies

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