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Billions in KRW Found at Garlic Farm

The money is believed to be part of a slush fund raised by running an illegal gambling website, the officials said, adding the total amount of the illegal fund reached 11 billion won.

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Korean Food

Upcoming PBS Series about Food in Korea

Premiering at some point here in 2011 is a brand new series on PBS about Korean food called The Kimchi Chronicles, and it looks like this one is going to cover more than just sam gyop sal and dak bal. The several episode series is being hosted by Marja Vongerichten, wife of famous chef Jean-Georges […]

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Doing Business in the DPRK

Who knew that Kim Jong-il’s second son was such a fan of Eric Clapton?

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S.Korea’s Biggest Ever Evacuation Drills

Mass evacuation drills were conducted in the capital city of Seoul, South Korea yesterday in preparation for another possible attack coming from their pain in the ass neighbors to the North. While many South Koreans and foreigners living in Korea alike have gotten used to the sound of war drums beating, the day’s evacuation drills […]

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Special Envoy Discusses Human Rights and Transfer of Power in North Korea

Special Envoy Discusses North Korea by WikiLeaks A January 11, 2010 meeting between Special Envoy Robert King and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan as described in a confidential cable communication from the US Embassy in Seoul to the Secretary of State in Washington, DC. C O N F I D E N T I A L […]

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Formally Confidential Talks about North Korea’s Future

From a cable sent this past February, published on WikiLeaks.org along with thousands of other classified State Department communication cables. Long live the Internet! C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 000248 SUBJECT: A/S CAMPBELL DISCUSSES DPRK FUTURE WITH EXPERTS Discussion Summary: A group of five ROK opinion leaders […]

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“the last snarls of a dying dictatorship”

With the recent publication of secret US Embassy Cables by WikiLeaks, the largest ever release of confidential documents into the public domain, I began to wonder if US State Department and Chinese Embassy officials discussions on North Korea were included. Of course I wasn’t the only one.. The New York Times today published an excellent […]

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Teaching English

To TEFL, or not to TEFL

By now you probably already know what the acronym stands for, but since trying to increase the search rankings of this website, I’m going to spell it out anyways: Teaching English as a Foreign Language. TEFL’ers are those certified and Internationally recognized as being qualified to teach students whose primary language is not English. Many […]

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Life

iphone collides with korean peninsula

…And promises to conquer all.

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Life

taekwondobama!

U.S. President Barack Obama will be given an honorary taekwondo belt to mark his first visit to Korea on Wednesday and Thursday. A government official said that President Lee Myung-bak will present Obama with an honorary taekwondo degree certificate and a uniform embroidered with his name. Obama practiced taekwondo for about four years with an […]