North Korea, Should We Be Worried?
So there has been a lot of hype about North Korea's big mouth lately with Kim, Jong-un ripping up the armistice between North & South Korea. A little history lesson: The two countries have been at war since 1950 but the fighting stopped due to an armistice inste…
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Choon Hyang and Namwon
To all those who would try to disturb the sanctity of Gwanghallu : Beware the tiger ! Have you heard the story of Choon Hyang? It's a story about a young woman, the daughter of a prostitute, who resisted the near fatal beatings of a corrupt politician while waiting…
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Noraebang Night Out
A video of bunch of us singing in Noraebang. No-rae-bang in South Korea is like a Karaoke with a party's own private room. There isn't a city in Korea without a thousands of these things. We got rowdy all we wanted. Plenty drunk. Photo of our crew…
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Overseas dad
After a few months in Korea, I saw something I hadn't expected to see: snow! I've been in Korea for more than two years. I like to return to Canada to visit my daughters. It's been years now that their mom and I found out we were friends. Since I moved away, Su…
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Dear Shine
Dear Shine, Hey man, how yah doing? It's Uncle Leif here, just putting a time capsule on the Internet, hoping that one day you'll read it. It's almost your second birthday. You were born on May fifth, which, as you probably know, is Children's Day in Korea . I…
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Cancer in Korea
Every year, approximately 190,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Korea while 72,000 die of it. Cancer became the first leading cause of death in Korea in 1983. Cancer mortality has been steadily increasing over the last two decades and cancer deaths accounted for 28.2% of …
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