Korea VS Japan Asian Cup semi-final, Korea lose, old feud lingers
Korea and Japan met again in the 2011 Asian Cup semi-finals in Qatar. Korea lost by 0-3 on penalties after a hard fought 2-2 draw after extra-time. After each scoring one goal in normal time, they went...
View ArticleSomali pirate case sparks Korean media frenzy
Five of the Somali pirates who hijacked South Korean crew members arrived in Korea yesterday and now are under investigation. Korea’s regional court issued arrest warrants for them, marking it the...
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Korea: Longer holidays mean more stress
There are few mornings when the busy streets of Seoul are nearly empty and the bustling city feels like a ghost town. The Lunar New Years morning is one of these and possibly the eeriest day of the...
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More Koreans say no to 30 minutes pizza delivery system
A popular marketing slogan of ’Fresh, hot pizza, delivered in less than 30 minutes!’ has met with a public opposition in Korea as young pizza delivery guys have died of delivery-related car incidents....
View Article‘Boat people’ issue leaves South Korea in a twist
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported[en] today that the South Korean government will respect the “free will” of 31 North Koreans who crossed the inter-Korean sea border by boat last week....
View ArticleKorean peninsula hit hard by the foot-and-mouth disease
A foot-and-mouth outbreak has swept the whole Korean peninsula. South Korea is battling with its worst outbreak for several months now, with a quarter of its herd culled. And so as North Korea. Two...
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Tweet photos warn of Korean environmental disaster
The spread of foot-and-mouth disease has slowed down, but the fear among Koreans is growing as experts predict the aftermath of the disease could be far worse than anything we have seen so far....
View ArticleWere SKorea’s spies behind botched Indonesia envoy break-in?
South Korea’s spy agency has made headlines today as its agents allegedly broke into an Indonesian presidential delegation member’s hotel room last week in Seoul in an attempt to steal classified...
View ArticleSKorean star professor under fire amid violence complaints
Kim In-hye, a popular soprano and a professor at Seoul National University, went under fire as allegations broke out that she habitually used violence on her students for over 10 years. A small...
View ArticleSouth Korean websites suffer DDoS attack – who and why?
Malicious computer codes attacked South Korea’s major websites including the presidential office, overnment ministries sites and major financial institution websites, and managed to shut some of them...
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Koreas agree talks on possible volcanic eruption
North Korea has made a desperate attempt to win back the world attention diverted to the massive earthquake and radiation crisis in Japan and the grave situation in Libya. The North suggested a meeting...
View ArticleFearful Koreans braced for radioactive rain
Public concern and fears have intensified in South Korea over nuclear safety issues as meteorological offices have admitted the possibility of radioactive substances reaching the Korean peninsula from...
View ArticleFour consecutive suicides in KAIST baffle Koreans
South Koreans are buzzing over consecutive suicides that occurred in one prestigious university as it was later revealed that the school’s penalty tuition system may have pushed students to death....
View ArticleIs Kim Il-Sung’s head getting smaller?
Several local media outlets in South Korea reported on the possible shrinking of the Mummy Kim Il-Sung’s head on April 16, with quoting the Daily NK, a Seoul-based Internet news outlet that focuses on...
View ArticleSKorea: Insiders suspected in bank system shutdown
Imagine waking up with your bank balance down to zero. This nightmare did actually happen to several South Korean customers. Twitterer Sitehis (@sitehis) tweeted ‘On April 15 early in the morning, My...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Women’s Ministry cracks down on gaming
The ‘shutdown system’ which prohibits kids younger than 16 from playing computer games between the hours of 12pm to 6am, passed the Korean parliament on April 20. The shutdown system was proposed by...
View ArticleIs NKorea behind cyber attack on SKorean bank?
South Korea’s Prosecutor’s Office concluded on April 2 that the North Korea is to blamed for last month’s cyber attack on the Nonghyup bank which forced it to shut down for several days and hobbled the...
View ArticleSKorea: Anger as Seoul allows fur at Fendi fashion show
South Korea’s capital city, Seoul, has allowed Italian fashion house Fendi to display fur items in a fashion show on the city’s newly built floating island on June 2. The show is part of Seoul’s grand...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s got talent? Video of North Korean singing contest
A three-minute, edited video of the North Korean singing contest was posted on Youku, a Chinese video hosting service. It is believed that a Chinese net user had edited video clips from North Korean...
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Gentleman: Psy defies critics with another YouTube sensation
South Korean pop sensation Psy released his new single ‘Gentleman’ over the weekend. Media reviews have been not that favorable so far, but the YouTube count tells a story of its own with over 80...
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Korea: Kaesong Industrial Complex explained in numbers
The South Korean government ordered the remaining workers at a shuttered jointly-run industrial complex in North Korea to return home. The decision was made a day after Pyongyang rejected South Korea’s...
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Reports: SKorean President fires spokesman for molesting US intern
South Korean President Park Geun-hye fired spokesman Yoon Chang-jung Friday for an “unsavory” act. Yoon is believed to have sexually assaulted a 21-year-old intern earlier this week, during the...
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SKorea sexual assault fiasco: Attacks on the victim and an SNL parody
The South Korean President’s ex-spokesman Yoon Chang-jung, who was fired for sexual assault during Park Geun-Hye’s high profile trip to the U.S., has admitted that he “groped the buttocks” of an...
View ArticleJapan’s nationalist agenda: The year so far
Is the Japanese government turning more nationalistic and militaristic every day? The evidence tells us so. This week Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s comments about WWII sex slaves caused a lot of offense...
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Psy’s new SKorean tourism commercials baffle locals
The Korea Tourism Organization, in an attempt revive up a sluggish tourism industry hit hard by inter-Korean tensions, has selected international K-pop sensation Psy as its new face. There is no...
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