Archive for May, 2007

North Korean Dancing Girls

An interesting old video of some North Korean dancers performing for tourists:

South Korea’ VANK Ultra-Nationalists vs. The SAT

From Yonhap:
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) — A U.S. history textbook for Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has wrongly identified Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.-A.D.935) as Korea’s first national entity without mentioning the existence of Koguryo Kingdom (B.C.37-A.D.668), a South Korean civic group said Thursday.
VANK, or the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, said the 2007 edition of the […]

Wacky Historical Theories of Racial Superiority: Now on Korean TV

The English subtitles say it was made by KBS, but the logo in the corner looks a lot like the History Channel:

“According to this viewpoint, the Sumerian tribe who established the Mesopotamiam civilization was the Korean race.“


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