Category: Wacky Stuff

Here is the latest attempt by the Korean left to increase tensions with Japan and indoctrinate Korean children. Do not expect these attempts to increase tensions to stop anytime soon:

South Korea’s largest province is considering whether to stigmatize nearly 300 Japanese companies over their purported actions during World War II, by imposing an ordinance that requires schools to put alert labels on these firms’ products in their schools.

Twenty-seven members of the Gyeonggi Province council submitted the bill last week in an attempt to give students the “right understanding on history.” If passed, schools will have to place on the items stickers that say: “This product is made by a Japanese war criminal company.”
The move is likely further deepen a diplomatic spat between Seoul and Tokyo, which are at loggerheads over territorial issues and the legacy of Japan’s 35-year colonization of the Korean Peninsula (1910-1945).

The list of 299 companies includes Nikon, Panasonic and Yamaha. The rule would apply to items such as projectors, camcorders, cameras and copy machines with a price tag of 200,000 won ($190) or more. Most of the companies on the list do not commonly supply products to schools — they include Tokyo Gas, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Nikkei Asian Review

You can read more at the link, but maybe the Trump administration should offer a compromise to the Moon administration to reopen the Kaesong Industrial Complex only if a war crimes label is attached to every product that looks like those grotesque ads seen on cigarette boxes.

Via a reader tip comes this bizarre story of an extremely obese American who flies on a Taiwanese airline in order to get the flight attendants to wipe his butt:

The obese American man who harassed and traumatized EVA Air flight attendants by ordering them to wipe him after defecating has, despite being banned, successfully booked more flights with the same airline.

According to Shanghaiist via Taiwan News, the unnamed man booked a two part flight with EVA Air for May 17, which would take him from Bangkok to Taipei and finally to Los Angeles. The man has reportedly booked over 20 flights with EVA in the past; in fact, this past incident was the second such incident recorded wherein the man bizarrely harassed flight attendants to wipe his butt after using the bathroom.

Next Shark

You can read more about his bizarre behavior at the link, which he seems to do to get some kind of sexual satisfaction from.

I guess this is one way to make your point heard:

A Korean man has destroyed his new car worth more than 50 million won ($45,000) in a fury, claiming he was given a Ford Explorer that “wasn’t actually new.”

Jang Dong-min smashed his vehicle with a baseball bat in front of a Ford sales shop in Jeonju on Jan. 20, accusing Ford Motor Company of giving him a car with “traces of repair.”

“It was the last and only thing I could do after no one had believed me,” Jang told The Korea Times Tuesday. “Every time I looked at my car, I felt my heart swelling with anger … I couldn’t just let it go.”

Jang bought his first Ford Explorer in May 2017, but within a few weeks, a serious engine problem occurred, he said. So the company exchanged that car for a new one in August that year.

But he later found some traces, which he believes indicate that his car was not brand new.

After receiving an experts’ technical evaluation report that supports his claims, Jang eventually brought the issue to the court. But the judges did not accept his claims.

Jang said he would continue to protest.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link.

Instead of an emotional support animal this seems more like a way to draw attention to ones self:

On a recent Monday afternoon, Joie Henney walked into the Glatfelter Community Center at the Village at Sprenkle Drive, an assisted-living development north of York, with his emotional support animal on a leash.
He walked by an elderly woman sitting on a bench by a window, reading a book. The woman glanced up from her book, took a look at Joie’s emotional support animal, shrugged and went back to her book.
Which seemed kind of unusual. Joie’s emotional support animal is a four-and-a-half foot alligator. There must be some currency to the adage that if you live long enough, you’ll see everything.
Joie paused in the hallway while residents and staff gathered in a semi-circle, an air of curiosity mixed with the terror of seeing a huge reptile, its sharp teeth visible inside its powerful jaws, and kept their distance.
Joie said it was all right. Wally – that’s the gator’s name – wouldn’t hurt them. He’s a pretty mellow reptile, and he likes people in the companionship way, not the potential food way.

Stars & Stripes

You can read more at the link, but I wonder how long before we will see even more exotic animals as emotional support animals and people demanding they be allowed on planes and in other public spaces?

#SouthKorea's EBS, education channel for kids, placed Kim Jong-un paper assembly 3-D dolls for sale online, causing controvery. EBS called him "the youngest head of state" & generally praised him. No mention of "human rights." The price was $3.https://t.co/izWA0ENWxk

— Tara O (@DrTaraO) November 27, 2018

A South Korean millionaire who founded & runs file-sharing sites notorious for sharing revenge porn/spycam porn videos is under probe for beating & abusing workers by forcing them to eat a handful of raw garlic, dye their hair red/green & kill live chickens with crossbows. https://t.co/icEI5raOxG

— Hawon Jung (@allyjung) November 1, 2018

Depending on one’s point of view, this has to be the worst or best demonstration of CPR ever:

Men’s magazine Maxim Korea recently came under fire for putting a sexual twist on its video about the life-saving procedure of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Critics have lambasted the video, saying it “crossed the line.” A Twitter message critical of the video has been retweeted over 17,000 times with the criticism spreading to other social networking websites.

The 2 minutes 24 seconds clip shows two bikini-clad women demonstrating CPR with captions explaining the key steps to be taken in an emergency.  [Korea Times]

It appears that Ambassador Harris is going to need to start packing a gun to protect himself after reading this article:

What if it had been a terrorist?

That must be what crossed the mind of U.S. Ambassador Harry Harris.

About 10 p.m. on Sept. 3, an intruder was caught prowling Habib House, the U.S. ambassador’s residence in downtown Seoul.

It is said Harris is not happy with the intrusion and the lack of adequate follow-up measures by Korean police.

The intruder proved to be a Korean-Chinese woman who arrived in Korea two days before the break-in.

When discovered in the house, she was reportedly speaking incoherently and making an unfounded claim that she was a relative of former President Lee Myung-bak, now in jail and being tried for corruption while in office, among other things.

It couldn’t be confirmed whether the ambassador was at home when the intrusion happened. But he is said to be upset about what could have happened if the woman was an IS terrorist trained to harm him.

He is said to be dissatisfied with the Korean police response, not even offering written assurances promising no repetition of a similar incident.

The Namdaemun police station, which is handling the case, told The Korea Times that the suspect was released 48 hours after the incident and it was no big deal.

“Breaking in and entering is not a serious crime,” a police officer said. “By law we could hold the woman for 48 hours. So we released her.”  [Korea Times]

You can read more at the link, but based on the police response to this incident, any crazy leftist could break into the US ambassador’s house to launch a protest against the Trump administration’s North Korea policies with no consequences.

What makes this matter even worse is that the prior US ambassador Mark Lippert was brutally knifed in the face by inadequate Korean security.

A Swedish Youtube star famous for playing and filming video games that he plays decided to take the infamous DOD Cyber Awareness Challenge.  The results were pretty funny:

PewDiePie, a Swedish YouTuber with 65 million subscribers who is best known for sharing videos of himself playing video games, just took the Cyber Awareness Challenge.

In a 25-minute video posted to the video-sharing site Thursday, he takes an unclassified version of the infamous Department of Defense computer security training. The video has already been viewed upwards of 1.6 million times.

“Who would make something like this?” he asks early in the process.  [Stars & Stripes]

You can read more at the link or watch the video below:

Some wacky American woman caused a ruckus recently on a Korean Air flight before take off from Incheon International Airport:

An American woman was forcibly removed from a business-class seat on a Korean Air flight bound for San Francisco International Airport this week, according to various sources. A video of the incident has been posted on the Korea JoongAng Daily YouTube page.

Korean website AllKPop.com reports: “The woman, who originally booked an economy seat, sat down in the business class seating instead. The woman refused to move and caused a disturbance when the flight attendant told her, ‘You have to sit in your designated seat.'”

In the video, you can see the woman seated in the last row of business class in an aisle seat in which she reportedly upgraded herself to, then refused to move. A cadre of female security officers began the removal process as the video begins. She’s chanting something about U.S. marshals, then dragged down the aisle, David Dao style, screaming that Korean Air has stolen her passport.  [SF Gate]

You can read more at the link, but the woman appears to have mental problems.

On a positive note at least this ruckus did not involve anyone in the Cho family.