ROK Drop Weekly Links – 21-27MAY07
Koreas
-Â The world’s most expensive mango.
-Â Just when I thought every area of anti-Americanism in Korea has been covered an enterprising adashi exploits anti-Americanism in a new way to make a buck.
-Â Korea’s troubled export: babies.
-Â If you haven’t read Richardson’s post on the Gwangju Incident yet, you really should just for the fact he draws Tim Shorrock into the debate and does a David Albright to him.Â
-Â Is a Norkipedia on its way?
Japan
-Â A look at linguistic similarities between Korea and Japan
-Â News from Japan I like to read about.
-Â Beware of the Viagra Vamps of Chiba.
-Â Korea isn’t the only "land of four seasons".
China
-Â Profiting from death in China
-Â Mass protests over one child policy turn violent.
-Â Chinese government steps up crackdown on NK refugees.
Milblogs
-Â This is one of the best rhetorical smackdowns I’ve ever read courtesy of a Canadian no less.
-Â Will this guy ever go away?Â
-Â A good look at the media in Iraq from Michael Yon.
Thanks for the link to my wine shop entry. Strange ideas in the mind of that Korean wine 'expert'…
Jeffery Hodges
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Totally agree on the "News from Japan I like to read about" article.
One could easily say the same phenomenon is also happening to Korean women. However, my personal observations of both societies over that last 20 years leads me to conclude that this female body style trend probably started a generation earlier in Korea.
That may have to do with the perception that young Korean women are more "Westernized" than their Japanese counterparts. It may also be a by-product of the Korean War. The war's devestation of the peninsula forced Korean society to completely rebuild with Western help (and societal influences), whereas the Japanese mainland was far less devastated after World War II and their rebuilding really focused on attaining democracy.
Ahhh … too much talk … where are the pictures !!!
Where are the pictures? Really, just do a google image search on *ANY* random Japanese female name and you'll have more to look at than you could wish for.
And here I had no idea that B-W-H measurements are influenced that much by diet!