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Archive for January, 2007

American High School drops “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” after facing nationalist Korean pressure campaign

As you may have read in my earlier post on the subject, or on The Marmot’s Hole / Occidentalism, Korean ultranationalists have been putting on a pressure campaign against American schools that use “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” as a reading in their classes. Yonhap News has reported a Korean ultranationalist victory in […]

North Korea’s 007


Korean films suffered a 68% drop in international sales in 2006


Shocking Video: Korean guy falls down escalator


Ghandi pole-dances his way to censorship in India?


Yeah…about that “Sea of Peace” thing….


China renovates Jewish cemetery ahead of Israeli PM visit


South Korea’s opposition party takes President Roh to task for his “Sea of Peace” offer


How about “Peace Sea”?


Children’s book under attack the story of a Japanese family fleeing a hostile postwar Korea



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