I actually binge watched this show last weekend. I actually liked it better than Squid Game though like Squid Game it is violent and I do not recommend it for kids. The plot is a bit different about woman who infiltrates a police department to spy for a crime boss in an effort to avenge the murder of her dad. However, if you watch enough Korean dramas the plot eventually becomes pretty predictable, but the acting and scenes in this drama are really well done:
“My Name.” Netflix
Netflix recently found monster success with the Korean-language series “Squid Game,” its biggest series of all time. Now, another South Korean show is surging in popularity on the platform.
“My Name,” a South Korean crime thriller that debuted on Friday, was the seventh most popular title on Netflix in the US on Tuesday, according to the company’s own daily lists of its biggest movies and TV shows that it ranks based on the number of accounts that watched at least two minutes during the previous 24 hours.
“Squid Game” was No. 2 on Tuesday, topped only by “You,” the third season of which also premiered on Friday. “Squid Game” debuted on September 17.
Netflix describes “My Name” like this: “Following her father’s murder, a revenge-driven woman puts her trust in a powerful crime boss – and enters the police force under his direction.”
A Gumi woman, surnamed Seok, arrives at the Gimcheon branch of the Daegu District Court in Gimcheon, southeastern South Korea, on Aug. 17, 2021, to attend her hearing in a child death case. (Yonhap)
A forty-something woman, who recently made headlines in South Korea for allegedly switching her newborn infant with her daughter’s baby years ago, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for attempting to abandon the body of her 3-year-old daughter this year and abducting her granddaughter of the same age in 2018.
The Gimcheon branch of the Daegu District Court gave the prison term to the 48-year-old woman, surnamed Seok, after convicting her on multiple charges, including baby switching and abduction.
You can read more at the link, but why would you switch the babies to just then starve what you know to be your granddaughter to death? Additionally how did her daughter not know the babies were switched? Like I said this whole thing is bizarre.
The evolutions of changing the culture in our military are good. So many positive feedback from our female service members on the new grooming standards. Morale just got higher. #katchikapshida@16thSMApic.twitter.com/f49lDhXzr1
— CSM_Tag (Walter A. Tagalicud) (@CSM_Tag) May 10, 2021
This is what every weekend in the Camp Casey ville used to be like 20-30 years ago:
Club Obsession, a strip club in the city center of Gdansk, Poland, is shown in an undated photo. An Army investigation determined that 101st Combat Aviation Battalion soldiers went in September to the off-limits club, where the battalion executive officer was likely drugged and charged exorbitant amounts of money before going missing until the next day. FACEBOOK
A U.S. Army Apache helicopter unit’s planned visit to World War II sites in Poland devolved into a drunken escapade at an off-limits strip club, leading to the suspected drugging of a battalion executive officer who went missing and wasn’t found until the next day, an Army investigation found.
The incident involving the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade’s “No Mercy” battalion during its recent deployment to Europe now has multiple officers facing the possible end of their military careers. (……)
Conner said that he received multiple lap dances and that strippers “bit his nipples to keep him awake, and repeatedly had his credit card swiped,” the report stated. Conner then showed the soldiers in the car multiple receipts, which added up to 50,000 — it wasn’t clear whether the sum was in dollars or Polish zloty, which would amount to about $13,000.
Conner “also expressed a belief that the champagne he had been given at the club had been laced/drugged,” the report said.
You can read more at the link of what is basically a bad Army version of The Hangover movie. The fact that senior Army officers allowed themselves to be put into a position like this is why they are likely going to be looking for new jobs
If the US moves forward with COVID booster shots this means less vaccine for the rest of the world to include South Korea:
Citizens wait for COVID-19 vaccine inoculation at a hospital in Seoul, Monday, when AstraZeneca vaccination started for healthcare workers for the disabled and seniors, as well as airline crewmembers aged 30 or above. Yonhap
The country’s COVID-19 vaccination program is facing another potential setback following announcements in the United States that it will consider offering potential booster shots of vaccines in order to increase their effectiveness.
Boosters are an extra dose of a vaccine given at a predetermined time after the initial injections to raise or maintain immunity against the targeted virus. The issue was recently brought up by U.S. vaccine policy chief Anthony Fauci and the CEOs of Pfizer and Modena.
So basically what the Korean government is saying is that the vaccine is more dangerous than COVID for those under 30:
Jung Eun-kyeong, who is leading COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Korea as the commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, speaks during a news briefing Sunday. (Yonhap)
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine will not be given to anyone under the age of 30 in South Korea, as growing evidence points to possible associations with a rare but serious blood-clotting disorder.
The government’s advisory committee on immunization practices said in a news briefing Sunday that AstraZeneca vaccinations will resume Monday after a partial suspension for the last four days.
The BBC has an article on North Korea’s slave labor system based on a report released recently by the Citizens’ Alliance for North Korea Human Rights:
Life of slaves, not human beings
Generations of South Korean prisoners of war are being used as slave labour in North Korean coal mines to generate money for the regime and its weapons programme, according to a report released by a human rights organisation. The BBC has taken a closer look at the allegations.
“When I see slaves shackled and dragged on TV, I see myself,” Choi Ki-sun told me. He was one of an estimated 50,000 prisoners seized by North Korea at the end of the Korean War in 1953.
“When we were dragged to labour camps, we were at gun point, lined up with armed guards around. What else could this be if not slave labour?”
Mr Choi (not his real name) said he continued to work in a mine in North Hamgyeong province alongside around 670 other prisoners of war (POWs) until his escape, 40 years later.
You can read the rest at the link, but the article goes on to discuss the songbun system and how someone’s class can sentence them to slave labor as well. For those that have closely followed this issue the fate of Korean War POWs, the songbun system, and North Korea’s slave labor camps is nothing new.
Clearly the NKHR is trying to remind people of the regime’s brutality likely because there is an effort by the engagement crowd to once again appease the Kim regime for little to nothing in return. If the engagers want to give Kim Jong-un his dream deal, than the American public should clearly understand the brutality of the regime they want to prop up.
This article says that Lee was directly approached by former President Park for a bribe, which is not correct. The alleged bribe was money that Samsung was paid to a sports foundation to fund her friend’s daughter’s equestrian team. The funding of the equestrian team the court considered a bribe though Park never received a dime of money from Samsung:
Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., heads to a sentencing hearing at the Seoul High Court on Jan. 18, 2021. (Yonhap)
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Monday, in a retrial of a bribery case involving former President Park Geun-hye. He was put behind bars again less than three years after he was allowed to walk free.
The Seoul High Court gave Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., the prison term for bribing Park and her longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, to win government support for a smooth father-to-son transfer of managerial power at Samsung.
“He actively and readily offered bribes to Park upon her demand for them, and engaged in improper activities in soliciting, although implicitly, Park’s support in the transfer of managerial power (at Samsung),” the court said in the verdict.
Kim Yo-jong must not have liked the reports about her being demoted because she has lashed out at the South Korean military for monitoring their parade preparations:
Kim Yo-jong
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un harshly criticized South Korea’s military for closely tracking its military parade believed to have taken place in Pyongyang to celebrate a rare party congress.
On Monday, Seoul’s military officials said signs were detected that the North carried out a military parade in central Pyongyang Sunday night in time for the eighth congress of the ruling Workers’ Party, which has been under way since its opening last week.
“What is weird is that the joint chiefs of staff of South Korea made a senseless statement that they captured the north opening a military parade at midnight on Jan. 10 and they are in the middle of making precision tracking,” Kim Yo-jong was quoted as saying in a statement released by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday.
“They are the idiot and top the world’s list in misbehavior as they are only keen on things provoking world laughter,” she added.
Kim added that the North is only holding a military parade in the capital city and not conducting any military exercises “targeting anybody nor launch of anything.”
“Do they really have nothing else to do but let their military body make ‘precision tracking’ of the celebrations in the North?” she said.
She warned the South Korean authorities, saying “all these things must surely be reckoned up in the future.”
