I spent a bit of time in South Korea last year, and if you could sum the place up in one word — which you can’t — it would be “busy.” South Koreans work an average of 2,390 hours a year, compared to 1,777 in the U.S.A., 1,717 in Canada and 1,652 in the […]
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korean companies provide fake girlfriends, roach killers, errand boys…
August 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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north korea threatens to attack civilian planes in international airspace
March 5th, 2009 · No Comments
To voice its displeasure about joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises, North Korea is threatening to shoot down civilian airplanes that venture near its airspace — even if they don’t actually enter it. Russia, China, South Korea and Japan may have something to say about that.
From the BBC:
In the latest of a series of bellicose […]
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north korea’s hunger-fighting super-noodles come up limp
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments
About a million North Koreans died of starvation in the late 1990s, and the World Food Programme says 6 million more are on the brink. But just as the world is starting to think that Kim Jong-Il doesn’t care about his starving people, he comes up with new super-noodles designed to fight hunger.
From the […]
