Friday’s Blog Roundup
About Joel: Gives us a review of the movie “President’s Barber” and grumbles about the romanticizing of the Hitleresque dictator General Park Jung Hee. For more on this subject, take a look at an ancient Kimsoft post on the dictator.
Big Hominid: Provides an update on the difficulties of house-hunting in Seoul.
Cathartidae: Points out why even liberals can get sick of Michael Moore.
Flying Yangban: Tells us about the evil Michael Moore stealing the Cannes top honors from Korea. There is also a brief post about Korea being a net importer of Kimchi, and a lengthy post about the Korean response to the US Forces Korea hypothetically becoming a rapid response force for Northeast Asia.
Hunjangui karuch’im: Refers us to another hilarious “news” story by the North Koreans. This one deals with the evil Underwood missionary family that is leaving Korea after a 120 year presence. I’m jealous. I wish the North Koreans would write a cool story like this about me. On another note, I really would like to know the real reason the Underwoods are leaving Korea.
Kathreb: gives us two short posts on Presidential pardons and pension plans.
Kimchi GI: Has a story about the North Koreans building a 400 km anti-defector fence a la the Berlin Wall. He also has a humorous story about a ring of forgers who were forging US credit cards as a means of showing anti-American sentiment through the purchase of domestic goods with forged US credit cards as a means of screwing the US companies and bringing revenue to Korea.
Korea Life: Has pictures of the Raelians invading Korea. I am so jealous of my younger brother who has actually spoken directly to Rael.
Marmot: Gives us an overview of the recent arrest of numerous men and women in the Korean online porn industry. He also gives us the story of a brave nude Korean singer who stand by her principles of no nudes for Japan.
Oranckay: Has a link to one of the strangest stories I have ever read. It involves some scheme to have a small, independant island with ties to New Zealand to sell New Zealand passports to Koreans for NZ$ 39,000 each so that Koreans will have a place to escape to if North Korea invades. Strangely (or not), officials from both New Zealand and the island were “alarmed” by “the prospect of thousands of Koreans descending on Niue and having automatic right of entry to New Zealand.”