It’s been a while since my last post. Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy boycotting FamilyMart. Anyway, here’s a glowing example of a stupid person’s reaction to the “So Far From the Bamboo Grove” controversy. This Korean blogger thinks it’s OK to make death threats against the author […]
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Korean blogger makes death threat against Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Published by February 5th, 2007 in U.S., History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 16 CommentsChildren’s book under attack the story of a Japanese family fleeing a hostile postwar Korea
Published by January 7th, 2007 in U.S., History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 1 CommentJanuary 7th:
From the Boston Globe, with bold added for emphasis by myself:
School board to vote on Korea book
The Dover-Sherborn Regional School Committee is poised to vote Tuesday night on whether “So Far From the Bamboo Grove,” a book that has sparked a fiery debate in town, should be studied by sixth-graders.
The committee will meet to […]
UC Berkeley Scholar: China’s Angry Youth venting their rage in irrational anti-US/anti-Japan forums
Published by December 20th, 2006 in U.S., China and Japan. 0 CommentsLi Rong, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, has written an informative post about ultranationalist Chinese netizens:
Angry netizens in China are holding high the flag of nationalism and voicing dissatisfaction about the US and Japan with numerous irrational words. They believe they are right and just. This is a dangerous signal.
Read […]
Trans-Pacific Optical Cable on its way?
Published by December 18th, 2006 in U.S. and China. 0 CommentsA high-speed link between China and the U.S. is on it’s way:
Verizon Communications is part of a plan to spend US$500 million building the first high-speed optical communications line linking the U.S. and China. Verizon announced its deal to build the 11,000-mile system Monday with partners China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom and companies in […]
South Korea rejects 10.2 ton third shipment of U.S. beef confirmed seven bone fragments in three boxes.
Published by December 6th, 2006 in U.S. and Korea. 1 CommentWow! Another rejection of U.S. beef:
he National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on Wednesday said naked-eye inspection of the 10.2 ton third shipment of U.S. beef confirmed seven bone fragments in three boxes. “Experts concluded that the bone fragments are not specified risk material” such as marrow bones […]
On the South Korean rejection of American beef…
Published by December 3rd, 2006 in U.S. and Korea. 4 CommentsAs the Nomad so skillfully reported this week, South Korea has shown it’s true feelings about allowing American beef into their country:
Korea recently rejected 9 tons of American beef after taking three weeks to inspect it because they found one piece of cartilage the size of a fingernail. Okay, under this environment it’s obvious the […]
Chosun Ilbo: A new wave of anti-Americanism in South Korea’s next presidential election?
Published by December 3rd, 2006 in U.S. and Korea. 0 CommentsA quote from an article in the Chosun Ilbo:
A case in point are wrangles over the date for Seoul’s takeover of sole operational control of Korean troops. Seoul aims at 2012, but against expectations that Washington would seek to delay the handover, the U.S. insisted on 2009. A senior Defense Department official said in August […]
Time Magazine’s 60 years of Asian Heroes
Published by November 8th, 2006 in Myanmar/Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, India, Korea, China, Indonesia, U.S. and Japan. 4 CommentsI was checking out the Digital Chosun Ilbo this morning and I found this article mentioning Time Asia’s selection of 3 Koreans in their 60 Years of Asian Heroes list. I was curious how other countries did, so I decided to count and make a list. Let’s see the make-up of the list […]
Kyodo News: Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress likely to boost pressure on Japan History Issues / Yasukuni
Published by November 8th, 2006 in U.S., History Dispute and Japan. 0 CommentsIf what this article speculates turns out to be true, I am going to seriously regret supporting a Democratic congress:
WASHINGTON — U.S. President George W Bush is expected to face stronger pressure from a Democrat-controlled Congress to address such issues as trade, war-related Yasukuni Shrine and wartime sex slaves. Japanese diplomatic sources said they are […]
VANK declares war on Gutenberg (and the truth)
Published by October 31st, 2006 in U.S., History Dispute, China and Korea. 3 CommentsMere hours after I wrote the last post about the printing press issue, I have come across this article in the Korea Times:
A Korean non-profit organization looks to launch a campaign this week to claim the country was the first to create the extant movable metal print book.
The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) plans […]
