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Spring.

Due to budget cuts, indefinitely delayed.

* Thanks to Rob York for the inspiration

NEWS

It looks like there was an explosion that damaged the ship.

Another helicopter crash?!

Another politician in a bribery scandal?! (OK, I’m not actually surprised.) The police chase is a new twist, though. Hehe.

Three Jeju Teacher’s Union members convicted of… “political” (aka “union-like”) activity.

Homeschooling comes to Korea. Which reminds me, I saw some kind of “Trot for Jesus” performance in MyeongDong on Saturday.

Clearly Kang Shin Who didn’t write this article about Korean hagwon teachers caught with fake degrees and drugs, because there is no mention of foreigners.

Korean Internet Security Number 1!!!

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?

Tax payers money at work here on the peninsula.

StarCraft Cheating Scandal Rocks South Korea

Craigslist in Korea catches up with the rest of the world.

Rain’s video banned because it shows him breaking the law. No, really.

Woman becomes trapped in own washing machine

Arisu – Seoul City Tap Water

Korea to Export Corn in Pizza!

I’m trying to psych Stafford up for a trip to the Promised Land (if the promise is that Walmart will be open 24 hours.) Will this help?

Can a Korean be the Voice of McDonald’s? I don’t think she’s even lip-syncing. What kind of example is that to her countrymen?

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Seoul Metro: Our subway cars are so clean you could eat off the floor. And many times people actually do.

MAIN TOPIC
The Robert Wicks Project has borne fruit… or something

NEWS
Former Prime Minister found not (clearly 100%) guilty … But a new inquiry has already started.
Mt. Keumgang tourism in doubt again
Shocking quote of the week: ‘The biggest problem is that Koreans have little experience in dealing with or working side by side with people who are different from them.’
Naval vessel update

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?
South Korean Newspaper Celebrates Moscow Subway Attacks – Pravda.Ru
Korea Times Editors Fired?

Drinking and Porn at Uni MT– what could go wrong?
Korean bullying gets mention in US suicide story. Korea, Fighting!
60 schools to have leveled math and English classes
SMOE corruption charges lead to 10 dismissals!!!!
SMOE won’t be hiring this fall, EPIK to take care of it.
Daewon Accused of Forced Donations
Class action suit filed against Japan over their textbooks’ use of “Takeshima” (unbelievably, it was thrown out. Of Korean Court.)
Welcome in NY. Here’s your Dokdo Bracelet.
Divorcees have pensions garnished regardless of grounds for divorce
An egg vending machine in a subway station in Seoul (scroll down a bit)

Would you give your child advice on drinking alcohol?

Moon Geun-young again proves she is my kind of woman

EXPAT COMMUNITY
2S2 Blood drive to help YooWoon Jeon, along with the Facebook group and other pleas.
2S2 is growing
Korea to offer F-2-S visa points for ‘cultural based activites’

TIME WASTERS
Breaking News English Lessons: ESL Plans Teaching Current Events

Robot Museum in Hyehwa. Apparently all funds went into the exhibit, with none left for the website. But I still want to go.

Tatter What? Nanoomi Who? Looah Where?

Top 35 Inspirational Korean Websites | The Design Inspiration

Blue Canyon water park

I just had fun playing with the web site

http://www.woodstockstory.com/woodstock2010.html

You’re A Fucking Mess.

NSFW from Blackout Korea

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Where the heck have we been? Again.

It’s Easter, but you’d never know it in Korea.

NEWS

The rescue mission continues after the sinking of a Naval vessel last week, but a fishing boat has gone missing, and another rescuer has died. (Most of these links are to fill in anyone who doesn’t know about it.)

Another cab-driving rapist.

A seachange? A school has been forced to repay “donations” it panhandled last year. Well, the first W150M, anyway.

Not yet (with the seachange). More graft in the public school system.

iPad! iPad! iPad! Coming to Korea “in a long time” according to well-informed Frisbee “genius.” (Do you really need a link?)

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?
Koreans Unhappy with Japanese Textbooks Claiming Dokdo as Japanese Territory

Also, kind of news, but there has been another celebrity suicide. Choi Jin-young, brother of previous celebrity suicider, Choi Jin-sil.

South Korean suicide rate highest in OECD again.

Koreans don’t know about caller ID? 119 is fining April Fool’s pranksters.

Violent offenders to be barred from working for loan companies.

Shopping, Taxis Annoy Tourists… Especially Japanese Ones

Is TV program “Misuda” (“Chat with Beauties”) on its way out?

Immigrant changes her name to Lee Hyo-ri.

OK, maybe I plagiarized you. Will you appear on my remix?

Even the Taliban seem to be suffering under this economy.

UN advising Korea about hagwons | Asian Correspondent

The Most Obnoxious Korean Behavior Is…….

EXPAT COMMUNITY
Brian is no longer in Jeollanam-Do, and this may be why. Kang Shin Who, you are a legend (in your own mind/ among anti-foreigner hate group losers/ to hack journalists.)

President of Seoul National University of Education calls native speaker English teachers unqualified, drug-takers.

Time To Go After the F-4 Guys?

Another journalistic classic

ATEK and a new competitor. Can’t we all just get along?

Rumblings about ATEK: Response to Chris

The British Embassy will not be handling passport issues past August.

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Not really expat-only, but Chris in SK has his April events calendar posted, as does The Yeogiyo, if you want to get out of your one-room and appreciate the all-too-brief spring (one of four distinct seasons!)

[White, Secret Hole]

[The audacity of Konglish]

YouTube – Master of Business Card Throwing

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NEXT WEEK

Robert Wicks

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This is a special SeoulPodcast of Joe’s presentation at the 2010 Seoul Chapter KOTESOL Conference titled “Korean Food Survival.” He talks about how to get by and cook foods that you miss from home in a country where cheese is a luxury item.

PDF of the handout

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