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 […]
Archive for January, 2007
American High School drops “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” after facing nationalist Korean pressure campaign
Published by January 22nd, 2007 in History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 13 Comments
North Korea’s 007: A short movie by “Hu Ge” and Chinese netizens, mocking Kim Jong Il and his secret agent buying Hennessy XO wine from Chinese black market.
Haven’t seen them all? Check them out now!
Korean films suffered a 68% drop in international sales in 2006
Published by January 18th, 2007 in Thailand and Korea. 1 CommentVariety reports what most of us were probably expecting, that the Korean Wave is dying:
Korean films suffered a 68% drop in international sales in 2006, according to a report released on Thursday by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).
Worldwide exports amounted to $24.5 million in 2006, down from $76 million the previous year. A cooling of […]
Shocking Video: Korean guy falls down escalator
Published by January 15th, 2007 in Korea. 2 CommentsYou may have seen this video on Digg, where it was incorrectly labeled as a “Japanese” old man falling down an escalator. It’s actually a clip from a Japanese TV show, but the video is from Seoul:
Amazingly, the guy turned out ok. Pretty lucky.
Ghandi pole-dances his way to censorship in India?
Published by January 13th, 2007 in India. 0 CommentsAccording to Boing Boing, India could maybe possibly kind-of but not really ban internet users access to YouTube because of the following video:
Yeah…about that “Sea of Peace” thing….
Published by January 12th, 2007 in Dokdo/Takeshima, Korea and Japan. 0 Comments“If it means we’d have to drop our own Korea-centric name for the sea, we’d rather not do it:”
More than 60 percent of South Koreans oppose giving a neutral name to the East Sea, which Japan calls the Sea of Japan, a survey said Friday.
According to a public opinion poll conducted by the Christian Broadcasting […]
China renovates Jewish cemetery ahead of Israeli PM visit
Published by January 10th, 2007 in China. 0 CommentsAn interesting news story from the People’s Daily Online:
China has spent three million yuan (about 385,000 US dollars) repairing the Jewish cemetery in the city of Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Liu Xinming, an official in charge of cemetery management confirmed here Tuesday.
The repair project coincides with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister […]
South Korea’s opposition party takes President Roh to task for his “Sea of Peace” offer
Published by January 8th, 2007 in Korea and Japan. 0 CommentsBecause Roh was advancing a policy based on anti-Japanese nationalism instead of actually promoting peace and friendship between the nations? The article has the answer:
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s main opposition party on Tuesday rebuked President Roh Moo-hyun over his handling of a diplomatic issue regarding the East Sea, also known as […]
How about “Peace Sea”?
Published by January 8th, 2007 in History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 0 CommentsAccording to the Marmot’s Hole, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun reportedly requested that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe support the use of the name “Peace Sea” for the body of water between their countries, rather than “Sea of Japan,” which is the current internationally accepted name for the sea. Previously Korean ultranationalists had been pushing […]
Children’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 […]
