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Ji-sung Park: Man.U didn't sign me just to sell shirts in Asia

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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.

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How Korean Food Is Perceived Abroad

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Korean food is unpopular and considered overpriced in the U.S., a survey shows. But it is widely popular in China and Japan, where it is seen as cheap.

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Korean man marries pillow

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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.

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Korean soap sweeps Japan

http://www.asianewsnet.net

South Korean drama series will be run for the first time in prime time on commercial broadcast TV in Japan in April.

Though the Korean boom in Japan sparked by the Korean TV drama Winter Sonata seems to have cooled, Korean dramas appear to have taken firm root in Japan.

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Police: S. Korean baby starves to death as parents play internet game

http://www.14wfie.com

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.

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Hangover Free Alcoholic Drinks invented by Korean Scientists

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The dreaded morning-after feeling could be a thing of the past after scientists in Korea came up with a technique that allows drinkers to avoid a hangover.

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Korea Losing Rights Over Indigenous Wildlife Species

http://english.donga.com

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.

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LG to recall 1.05 million Washing Machines after Child's Death in Korea

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LG is to launch a campaign to prevent children from being locked in washing machines. The company's decision comes after a child was found dead in a front-loading washing machine in Daejeon, Korea on Sunday. Apparently, the child suffocated playing in the machine while his parents were away.

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Korean view of Apolo Anton Ohno

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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.

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Korea to explore joint pact with China, Japan

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Korea will launch a joint research project this year with China and Japan to study the possibility of a three-way free trade agreement (FTA) between Northeast Asian nations, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

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Private English Tutoring Could Be Legalized In Korea

http://rokdrop.com

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."

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Korean Wife Causes Political Dispute In Australia

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A RACE row has erupted at a Melbourne council with a former Greens candidate accused of telling a fellow councillor not to vote on “Asian matters” because he has a Korean wife.

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Where is the protest against South Korean whaling?

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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.

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Coffin Academy fakes death to help Koreans live better

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In South Korea, they like to kill themselves. South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the developed nations.

Jung Joon decided there was some money to be made from this interest in death and dying so he launched the Coffin Academy, where for $25 South Koreans can slip into a coffin and experience the sounds and feelings as he pounds the lid in place to leave them in the darkness.

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Wartime records to be handed over

http://www.asahi.com

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.

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Guitar phenom Sungha Jung playing Michael Jackson's Billie Jean - Sungha Jung

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Amazing!

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Did you know the Koreans discovered America?

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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.

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After School - Because of You

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All-girl Korean pop group After School performing their song Because of You.

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Clean loo campaigner to open toilet-shaped home

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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.

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Santa's Helpers from Korea

Santa's Helpers from Korea

http://www.asian-sirens.com

See the rest of them at Asian-Sirens.

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Wonder Girls Top Google Hot Search List

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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

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Korean Booth Babes Booted

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Indecent? Or simply decent? According to website MMO News, two booth companions were asked to leave South Korean game show G-Star for their revealing costumes. This apparently is a first for the G-Star event.

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DMZ Peace Bike March

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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.

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South Korean defects to North Korea, fulfills dream

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A South Korean citizen fled to communist North Korea through heavily armed border posts, fulfilling his long-standing dream, Korean media reported on Tuesday.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) was quoted by the Yonhap news agency as saying the 30-year-old man, identified as Kang Dong-lim, might have defected through barbed wires at the border, which were discovered cut open.

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Seoul's ruined Jumbo Jet

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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.

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A complicated tale about a Korean Buddhist Temple Lavatory - nice pictures

http://www.rjkoehler.com

A couple of weeks ago, I was reading a story — can’t quite remember how I came about it — that mentioned the outhouse of a Buddhist temple in Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon-do that was designated a cultural property.

Marmot I lost track somewhere there..

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Nobody spoke up at the meeting to say "Magic Hole" was a bad name?

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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.

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United Korea economy could pass Japan: Goldman Sachs

http://www.reuters.com

A united Korea -- combining Asia's fourth biggest economy with one of its poorest -- could surpass that of Germany or Japan in economic might in the next 30-40 years, according to U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs.

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Russia and South Korea conduct joint naval exercises off Sakhalin’s coast

http://www.thesakhalintimes.com

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

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Kim Jong Il on Times Front Page

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is featured on Times Magazine Front Page. News/comedy post.

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