September 2009 Archives

Do the T.T Dance!

 
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Brian in Jeollanamdo brings us this wonderful example of what happens when you use a language you don't understand well.   It's the T.T Dance from the band HAM (short for Heart and Mind).

Here Comes the Ahjumma!

 
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Even a wedding procession is not enough to stop an ahjumma from getting to where she wants to be.  Behold:

2MB versus Nintendo

 
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Korea's beloved president, Lee Myung-bak, laments all the children playing Nintendo's DS.
``A lot of our elementary school children have Nintendo game machines,'' the
president told senior policymakers, referring to the Nintendo DS handheld video-
game console that has sold more than two million units here since its release in
2007.
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One of the biggest challenges to such an assault against Nintendo is that Koreans have become accustomed to using pirated software and games.  Some estimates suggest that 50% of computers here have pirated software, and anecdotally,  I put that number higher.  Game piracy rates are probably even higher.  A simple request at any game shop in Yongsan Electronics Market will very quickly produce a giant catalog of pirated titles.  Make your picks, and the shopkeeper makes a call.  10 minutes later, a courier runs your selections to the vendor.  Thanks to f*&%ing region coding, I have little choice but to use these furtive methods.  
Some links:

Photos from North Korea

 
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An Italian photographer working for a Catholic NGO took some surprisingly vivid photos of the country's dire poverty.  Also, the government allows Christian churches now?!
Check out the photos here.

A shop assistant selling Coca Cola in a department store. Photo: Piergiorgio Pescali

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination

 
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Now this is patriotism

 
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