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'Once I became more famous I was proud that people in Asia started to look towards me. All the Asian people respect me and watch me.
'But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.'
The reception Park receives when he goes home would rival anything David Beckham can generate in the UK.

Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.

Now the 28-year-old otaku has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.

In Japan, we often hear about parents who leave their baby in a locked vehicle while playing pachinko in the summer, only to come back hours later to find their child roasted to death.

Still, this story from Korea has got to take the cake.

When inter-Korean tension heightened due to the killing of a South Korean tourist by a North Korean soldier at Mount Kumgang in 2008, the restoration center for endangered species on Mount Jiri was at a loss.

A Korean writer makes it sound like beating Apolo Anton Ohno on the speed skating rink should become a national policy.

Let’s unite behind all the Korean skaters and stop allowing Ohno to win more medals.

If you are an English teacher in Japan and think you have it tough, contrast your working conditions with those of your fellow teachers in Korea, where the government "may consider revising the current regulations to allow foreigners to tutor legally for money."

South Korea also hunts whales with just as much vigor and success as the Japanese. So why isn't anyone harassing and ramming Korean whalers?

Most likely it is because the protesters know that doing so would get them nothing more than a one-way ticket to Davy Jones' locker.

As early as in March, the Justice Ministry will submit to the South Korean government a list of Koreans who were forced to labor at Japanese companies during World War II and repatriated without pay after the war ended.

The ministry will also include records of each person's unpaid wages.

And founded and/or ruled China, India, Egypt, Alaska, America, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Essex, Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Hungary, and Estonia?

Found over at ROK Drop.

Sim Jae-Duck was born in a restroom and now he plans to live and die in one — a 1.6 million dollar toilet-shaped house designed to promote his tireless campaign for cleaner loos worldwide.

Korean girl group Wonder Girls has topped Google’s Hot Search list after their performance on the popular television show “So You Think You Can Dance” according to their agency.

Via Imprint TALK

Near-the-Demilitarized-Zone, Korea — It was the chance of a lifetime, to ride on a new bicycle trail through an area that has been shut off from most of mankind for decades.

The Juan T. Trippe 747 Jumbo Jet was the first commercial jumbo in the world. In 2001 it became a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea, which went bankrupt after only 6 years. Now it sits and waits for the day it will be turned into a museum.

Magic Hole is the latest cellphone from Samsung.

the official Magic Hole site, you can "Magic Hole Explore." Yes, there's a Magic Hole game.

Russia and Korea carried out joint naval exercises in Aniva Bay on Wednesday.