"A South Korean woman is celebrating after passing the written exam for a driving licence - on her 950th attempt. After four years of trying, 68-year-old Cha Sa-soon finally managed to secure the 60 out of 100 points needed to pass the test. The grandmother has spent more...
The Washington based International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday said that the three economies of India, China and Australia were recovering at a especially rapid pace, which suggests that there would be...
Next week the queen bee of pop flies back into the land of the morning calm with a deafening buzz that dwarfs her previous appearance. You see the newly Destiny Childless singer of two years ago, dewy eyed...
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10,000 couples got married in a mass wedding ceremony held by the Unification Church. Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church's leader, presided over the ceremony, but his son, Moon Hyung-jin, performed...
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Hi, you don’t know me, but I know you. I see you every day. Usually I just try to pretend I don’t see you, but I must confess that you make that difficult to do. You’re everywhere and try as I might I just can’t seem to get away from you. You’re at Coex when I’m...
You may not read this, but I felt compelled to write anyway just to get this off my chest. I hesitated; really, I did, because I thought about the repercussions of how this letter may be received and how it may result in a walking stick to the back of my head, an elbow to the...
Pardon me for being so forward. I don’t mean to interrupt your wistful gazing of your reflection in your cup of coffee or perhaps your deep contemplation of the latest strapless oversized leather Murse, but I feel compelled to make a suggestion that will hopefully make both...
Good morning, I don’t mean to disturb you but I want to be neighborly by introducing myself. We haven’t officially met yet since you moved into the patch of grass in front of the 7-11 next to my building because, well, you’re always passed out when I walk by on my way...
Ever wonder where all those shiny faced lean bodied beautiful Korean Pop stars come from? They were so prolific shimmying across my TV screen, on my soda bottle, on billboards and bus advertising that I assumed they were grown in labs and cloned. Well that’s not far from...
UPDATE: "Clinton landed in Pyongyang in an unmarked jet Tuesday and was greeted at the airport by North Korean officials, including chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan and vice parliamentary speaker Yang Hyong...
North Korea seized a fishing boat from South Korea early evening on Wednesday, July 29 (PST), after the vessel inadvertently crossed the country's border in the East Sea (also known as the Sea of Japan).According to officials from Seoul and the South Korea defense ministry,...
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A full-on brawl erupted yesterday in South Korean Parliament. The South Korean National Assembly turned into a bar brawl from a Jackie Chan film as members of Parliament voted on a media reform bill. The ruling...
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Korean-based citizen journalism site OhMyNews has asked its 100,000 contributors to pony up some hard cash, not just more stories, a blog on Forbes has just reported. The posting comes from PlanetSizedBrain,...
By, Uwe Paschen. The North Korean Crisis may be blown out of proportion to get Japan and South Korea to side with the US against China and Russia. More and more articles from Asia start suggesting that...
opinion by Paschen | 19 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago 1184 views | 88 recommendations | 17 comments
North Korea may fire a missile towards Hawaii says a new report coming from Japan, and this would take place in early July. This report comes as Russia and China urges North Korea to return to the international disarmament talks. The missile, which would most likely be...
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