Broadsheet blogwatch
Set out below are the latest posts from some of the more serious blogs out there. As many of you will know, I tend to steer clear of political commentary: if you want the low-down on those blogs, visit the Marmot’s blog aggregator. Film blogs now have their separate BlogWatch page.
Posted 10 hours ago: Who knows if this video is authentic or not but it has been fairly well documented that Kim Jong-il kept a special detachment of dancing girls for his own private use: You can read more about Kim Jong-il’s dancing girls over at One Free Korea. [
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Posted 21 hours ago: One Free Korea has word on another Why Are These Worthless Islands Korean Land Essay Contest. [
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Posted 23 hours ago: Via the Marmot’s Hole comes this link to some great photographs of the Chinese People Liberation Army (PLA) during the Korean War. Here is a sample of some of these great pictures: American soldiers captured after trying to escape in their Jeep. Chinese soldiers being entertained by North Korean dancing girls. Notice how young the Chinese soldiers look. Chinese and ... [
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Posted 27 hours ago: Some how I missed this from earlier in the week but what a horrible story this is: A court handed down suspended jail terms to four family members who repeatedly raped a teenage relative who suffered from an intellectual disability. The Cheongju District Court Thursday sentenced an 87-year-old grandfather and two uncles of a 16-year-old girl to four-year suspended prison ... [
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Posted 34 hours ago: The story of the Kunsan airman that saved the life a young Korean woman by donating his blood to combat her rare form of lieukemia is one I have profiled before here on the ROK Drop. It is really a great story that involved a lot of great leadership on Kunsan Airbase to make happen. Now the woman who’s life ... [
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Posted 2 days ago: Chaplain Burgess P. Riddle conducts Thanksgiving Day Services on Nov. 23, 1950 during the Korean War Before you eat your turkey dinner this Thanksgiving make sure to give thanks to the soldiers who spent a total of three Thanksgivings between 1950-1953 fighting the Korean War. Here is a letter home that explains one soldier’s Thanksgiving during the war: Bill Shepard ... [
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Posted 2 days ago: Here is another good story of USFK servicemembers and their families helping out in Korea: Yongsan volunteers wore red rubber gloves, plastic hats and vests as they helped make kimchi for needy Korean families Nov. 17. Fifteen Army Family Members and Civilian Employees joined hundreds of Korean volunteers to help stuff thousands of cabbages with spicy seasoning at Sudo Girl’s ... [
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Posted 3 days ago: There is plenty of warranted criticism of Korean law enforcement, but when it comes to drugs they appear to quite a good job cracking down on this activity: A U.S. soldier has been sentenced to five years in a South Korean prison on charges he helped traffic 30 pounds of marijuana into the country and assaulted two investigators during a ... [
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Posted 3 days ago: Who can name who this actor is representing?: Here are this year’s Korea Finder Leadersboard: 1. Mark - 7 2. Leon Laporte - 5 3. Brian - 3 3. Crackus - 3 4. Shattered -2 4. NC47 - 2 4. Sonagi - 2 5. Rob - 1 5. Ryoske - 1 5. Tony - 1 5. Hamilton - 1 5. ... [
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Posted 3 days ago: I actually attended a firepower demonstration for one of these before and I found the K-9 to be quite an impressive piece of equipment: The South Korean government on Wednesday signed a 1.5 trillion won (US$1 billion) deal with a local manufacturer to produce hundreds of K-9 self-propelled howitzers, the defense procurement office said. Samsung Techwin, an arms affiliate of ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: In 2007, uigwe, royal protocols, from the Joseon dynasty were added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as the sixth such Korean documentary heritage. Uigwe not only record the procedures and methods necessary for royal ceremonies and state projects, including royal weddings and funerals, and building construction, they also feature illustrations called banchado that vividly depict these events. ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: Maps can be defined as two-dimensional representations of the land surface, thus differing entirely from aerial photos taken from satellites and airplanes. For that reason, what is represented on maps varies according to who makes the maps and why. Numerous maps were produced during the Joseon period, including world maps centered around East Asia and national and provincial maps of ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: Multicultural Korea, as reflected in such headlines as “One Million Foreign Nationals” and “One out of Four Men in Rural Areas Marrying Foreign Women,” has become a familiar topic, and the Korean government, NGOs, and academics are competing to produce theoretical frameworks for understanding this phenomenon. Among these, the multicultural discourse and policies articulated by the government have encountered some ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: The Autumn 2007 issue of the Korea Journal features the topic “Theories of Beauty in Korean Art History,” along with four research papers and a book review. Theories of Beauty in Korean Art History This issue examines what constitutes Korean beauty and how it can be understood, as well as how it has continued into the present-day, with a focus ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: We are very proud to announce the new editorial members for 2007-2009. Korea Journal is honored to welcome the following editorial board members and advisors. (more…) Copyright © 2008 The Korea Journal Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: The topic of the present issue of the Korea Journal has, interestingly enough, been written up in the Korea Times. Read the review in its entirety after the jump, and please be sure to post your reactions in the comments after logging in! (more…) Copyright © 2008 The Korea Journal Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: We are pleased to announce the publication of the summer 2007 issue of the KOREA JOURNAL. This issue features the special topic: “The ‘Religious’ in Contemporary Korean Culture.” It also includes five research papers produced across diverse disciplines. The “Religious” in Contemporary Korean Culture Three papers under the topic can be dubbed as a religious reading of the enthusiasm around ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: We are pleased to announce the publication of the spring 2007 issue of the KOREA JOURNAL. This issue features the special topic: “A Postmodern Turn in Korean Literature.” It also includes four research papers and two book reviews A Postmodern Turn in Korean Literature (more…) Copyright © 2008 The Korea Journal Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: Call for Papers and Participation The World Congress for Korean Studies 2007 - Korea in the World: Democracy, Peace, Prosperity and Culture - The World Congress for Korean Studies 2007 by the Korean Political Science Association will be held in Busan, South Korea, from 23 to 25 August. The main theme for the Congress is “Korea in the World: Democracy, ... [
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Posted 41 hours ago: The 13th Sogang-KF Korean Studies Forum will be held as follows: Subject: A Search for New Perspectives in Colonial Studies: Physical Education and Sports in Korea, 1895-1945 Presenter: Sophia Kim (KF fellow, Ph.D. Candidate , UCLA) Panel: Prof. JUNG Gun Sik (Sociology, Seoul National University) Date: Mar. 30th. 2007, 5 p.m. Venue: K-building, 506, Sogang Univ. * This forum has ... [
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Posted 3 hours ago: Two deadlines are fast approaching: nominations for Cliopatria Awards for best blogging, 2008 (covering from December 2007 through November 2008) close Sunday at midnight. I am one of the judges so there are several categories I can’t nominate in (or be nominated in): you have to do it yourself! nominations for the December History Carnival (covering November) also close Sunday ... [
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Posted 20 hours ago: I’ve been looking at disease patterns in the early stages of the USAMGIK occupation, focusing on the cholera outbreak of spring and summer 1946, covering roughly April to September of that year, and peaking with the summer rains in June and July. I’m still not certain that a single disease identity is the correct frame, as there was some question ... [
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Posted 20 hours ago: I just returned to SG this past weekend from BAKS (British Association Korean Studies) 2008, and wanted to post as the film panel in particular intersects nicely with something posted earlier this summer. For those interested in a brief summary of the conference as a whole, please see Philip Gowman’s take at: http://londonkoreanlinks.net/2008/0~ To return to the issue of film, ... [
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Posted 40 hours ago: Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month! [
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Posted 40 hours ago: The first of two parts of the 21st Asian History Carnival will be coming soon on August 23rd to the Tang Dynasty Times! Read more and submit your nominations for the carnival here: 21st Asian History Carnival. [
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Posted 40 hours ago: Yet the costly Iraq war must also be recognised as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy, just as the far more costly Korean war was a sideshow to global cold war containment. So says Edward Luttwak, in an extensive attempt to speed up the process by which History justifies and valorizes the policies of this administration. ... [
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Posted 13 hours ago: Back in July, I wrote a lengthy post on the reasons behind and implications for Korean society of the high numbers of “weekend couples” (주말부부) and “lonely geese fathers” (외기러기) here, the latter generally referring to fathers who remain in Korea to work while their families live overseas for the sake of the children’s eduction. [...] [
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Posted 20 hours ago: ( Photo Sources: L: floridapfe, R: cholmondelly ) Normally I’d be loath to cut and paste such a short article as this without adding extensive commentary, particularly one involving the Korean conscription system and Korea’s low birth rate (albeit only indirectly), but sometimes less is more. From today’s Korea Herald: The Constitutional Court ruled that the military [...] [
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Posted 20 hours ago: ( Source ) On Wednesday, apparently someone over at Naver listened to my recent request for pictures of interesting juxtapositions featuring observers of Korean advertisements, and chose this as the photo of the day. Not exactly what I wanted, true, but it’s a good start. If anyone wants me to translate the three(!) paragraphs accompanying the photo, [...] [
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Posted 20 hours ago: ( Source ) Introduction: How Sexism Came to be Subtle What is it exactly that renders an advertisement sexist? Is it what probably first comes to mind, an overemphasis on female body parts and/or women in sexual poses, both usually with virtually no relationship whatsoever to the product being advertised? Well…yes, of course, and I completely accept [...] [
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Posted 20 hours ago: Not strictly Korean sorry, but then I’m having fun again, and I didn’t do enough justice to Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo’s “Uniqlock” when l first mentioned it back in May. Since then, it’s won won several awards at the 2008 Cannes Lion International Advertising Festival, generally regarded as the worlds most prestigious (it’s been going [...] [
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Posted 20 hours ago: ( Sources: Left, Right ) Introduction: Juxtapositions Photographs of revealing lingerie advertisements seem tailor-made for bloggers and journalists covering social change in East Asia: what better to both immediately grab readers’ attentions and capture the region’s increasingly liberal attitudes to sexuality than through, say, an image of a resentful but resigned-looking retiree pointedly ignoring one? Which begs the [...] [
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Posted 20 hours ago: Well, as I type this a mere Naver news video to be precise, but I’m sure there will be similar news reports on TV in the morning. The occasion was the opening of the Busan International Advertising Festival at the Grand Hotel in Haeundae, which I was fortunate enough to be invited to the opening [...] [
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Posted 20 hours ago: ( “JINRO is back. A new generation’s perfect ‘J’ soju, with a new name, new style, and a cooler taste.” Source ) ( Source ) ( Source ) I have to admit, I was less than impressed when I first heard of Jinro’s launching of its new soju brand “J” via these advertisements with Song Hye-gyo (송혜교) last week: [...] [
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Posted 4 days ago: ( Source ) Back in this post, I discussed the role of sociologist Erving Goffman’s concept of “relative size” in advertising, or in other words the reasons for and implications of women almost invariably being shown as shorter or smaller than men in advertisements, despite the woman being taller of the two in roughly 1 out [...] [
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Posted 5 days ago: ( Source ) Apologies for the long delays, but I’ve finally completed my promised updates to my recent posts on the use of differing sizes for men and women in advertisements and on why Korean (and Japanese) cartoon characters tend to look Caucasian. The update on the former is just minor, but I’ve almost doubled the [...] [
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