Korea

According to a recent poll, 50 percent of Japanese feel friendly toward Koreans, while 62 percent of Koreans feel unfriendly toward Japan.

Experts forecast better Seoul-Tokyo relations because both Koreans and Japanese in their 20s and 30s feel more than 10 percentage points more friendly than toward each other than their counterparts in their 50s or older.

An English song by singer Seo Hui to inform foreigners that Dokdo (Takeshima) is Korean territory.

Lyrics here.

Found via The Marmot's Hole

Now, if they don't tap you up for a renewal of contract lad, my advice is to get your agent to put out feelers to one of the more Honest and Genuine football clubs who still believe the game is about the Spirit of Football and not the Smell of Money - like Spurs

One of South Korea's best-known actresses, Ok So-ri, has been given a suspended prison sentence of eight months for adultery.

...South Korea is one of the few remaining non-Muslim countries where adultery remains a criminal offence. A person found guilty of adultery can be jailed for up to two years.

ABC News, Singing Highway in Korea, very funny yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo am I at fifty words yet??

Now there’s a move to keep it that way – and perhaps bring North and South Korea closer together.

Emperor Akihito of Japan should follow the example of Germany in making a genuine gesture of contrition for his country’s wartime aggression in Asia, Lee Myung Bak, the South Korean President, has said.

Ju Hee, 38, has not changed much in 20 years. Many people remember her big, wide eyes and articulate speaking manner. Ju Hee, a teen star in the 1980s, made a comeback as a film festival programmer after finishing her studies in Japan. She is now an executive of a Cinus multiplex and a planner of the 2008 Pink Film Festival, which opened last Saturday.

"HANOI - POLICE in Vietnam broke up an illegal marriage brokering event on Monday while dozens of women were being paraded before a group of South Korean men as potential wives, state media reported.
Authorities temporarily detained seven South Korean men and 161 local women for taking part in the event, the Lao Dong newspaper said."

*sorry double-o"...(robyn what thinkest you?) "Redknapp threw Pavlyuchenko into the fray at half time, telling the Russian through a translator to just run. Within a minute he made an impact despite the shot flying wide of Reina.
*sorry double-o"...

South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled that only the visually impaired can be licensed masseurs in the country, upholding a law set up a century ago despite arguments it infringed on free employment rights.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea accepted a North Korean proposal to hold military talks, a Defense Ministry official said Saturday, amid continuing tensions on the divided peninsula.

Ten years ago today, the first Japanese song was legally performed in South Korea. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

With Washington removing North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Japan finds itself isolated over the issue of its nationals abducted by the reclusive communist state, during the cold war, to be trained as spies.

Nothing to compare with the 50-year-old guy in Cheonju, Korea who was arrested for attempting to to rape his mother-in-law while in drag.

The man, is suspected of putting on a woman’s wig, lipstick, dress and bra to break into his mother-in-law’s second floor appartment, where he attempted to rape his sleeping mother-in-law while his common-law wife was at work.