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Post by ginnycat5 on Aug 20, 2013 13:51:19 GMT -5
LOL. Just ask a mom, she'll ruin your fun. Actually, "let's make a watermelon baby romper!" seems like a dad idea, doesn't it. How about this one? Soju Culture (Slate article)Parts of it are funny. I guess I don't have much interest in doing a taste test, after hearing some of those soju-flavor descriptions. :-P Maybe I'll make a list of the ones with the best flavor, in case I'm at H-Mart and want some soju, though
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Post by MTR on Nov 7, 2013 17:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by TheBo on Nov 10, 2013 11:55:50 GMT -5
Hmm. I hope that's not true, because as you say it's crazy and sad. The dvd/usb-stick switcheroo at the end is an interesting thing.
What rings my alarm bells is they are saying they are able to block other banned "historical documents" but not S Korean ones. Why? It doesn't make sense.
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Post by Knov1 on Nov 10, 2013 23:04:05 GMT -5
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Post by sageuk on Nov 10, 2013 23:14:15 GMT -5
So not even North Korea is immune to the Angry Bird craze.
Its an epidemic. One that needs to be purified with flame.
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Post by TheBo on Nov 12, 2013 11:13:25 GMT -5
I was upset to hear yesterday. 80 people executed. This is the same story, it's just so much worse than I understood it to be. When will the Koreans in the North be free from these madmen? Haven't they suffered enough? L A Times 11/11/13
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Post by jojo on Nov 15, 2013 14:14:48 GMT -5
You're right Bo; they're mad! How sad.
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Post by jojo on Jan 16, 2014 9:19:58 GMT -5
Frontline (PBS) did a show on North Korea. While there are cultural changes due to the amount of outside info getting in, and the internal free markets (technically illegal), any regime change may be a long time coming. That seems to be due to the brutal government tactics. At one point there was a picture of Kim Jung-un surrounded by a few hundred military heads. The narrator said that about half of them have been purged from the military so far. (You can see the pic on Frontline's website.) The number of prisons has grown dramatically and everyone spies on everyone.
Frontline showed a lot of smuggled video of inside North Korea. There was a piece on a woman arguing with a military man about her wearing pants. Apparently women are not allowed to do so. She didn’t let up. They even put an armband on her, which she promptly took off. Overall though, the conditions the people live in look pretty depressing.
Many defectors living in South Korea continue to try to bring in outside news, movies, flash drives, & radios to help those in North Korea.
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Post by ginnycat5 on Jan 17, 2014 22:36:14 GMT -5
Frontline (PBS) did a show on North Korea. While there are cultural changes due to the amount of outside info getting in, and the internal free markets (technically illegal), any regime change may be a long time coming. That seems to be due to the brutal government tactics. At one point there was a picture of Kim Jung-un surrounded by a few hundred military heads. The narrator said that about half of them have been purged from the military so far. (You can see the pic on Frontline's website.) The number of prisons has grown dramatically and everyone spies on everyone. Frontline showed a lot of smuggled video of inside North Korea. There was a piece on a woman arguing with a military man about her wearing pants. Apparently women are not allowed to do so. She didn’t let up. They even put an armband on her, which she promptly took off. Overall though, the conditions the people live in look pretty depressing. Many defectors living in South Korea continue to try to bring in outside news, movies, flash drives, & radios to help those in North Korea. I just saw that program. The woman criticized for wearing pants pointed to some other people and asked the officer "What about them?" I guess there were other women wearing pants, but I couldn't tell from the camera angle. She was very feisty. I didn't expect her to get away with it talking back to a cop (or soldier?) A South Korean woman was shown putting some dollar bills into a plastic bag/envelope and later sending packets up in the air via balloons, to float into North Korea. Apparently American money is acceptable in North Korea. Another bit showed someone in a shop, asking to be shown a dress or something hanging in a large display of clothing. The clerk said that it wasn't for sale. Nothing in the big display was for sale. I guess it was there only to show the store as being stocked instead of empty.
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Post by TheBo on Mar 26, 2014 15:43:06 GMT -5
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Post by soapygrams on Apr 16, 2014 21:35:31 GMT -5
what a sad day for S Korea with the accident of the ferry carrying all those young people on a high shool trip to Jeju sland. My heart a is heavy for their parents and families and friends. Hope there will be more survivors found . Prayers and healing thoughts sent to ll of theose huring from this tragedy.
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Post by soapygrams on Apr 16, 2014 21:38:30 GMT -5
what a sad day for those South Korean parents of those high school students killed in the ferrty aident. Prayers and healing thoughts being sent to them ... Hope they find the strength they need to overcome such losses.
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Post by TheBo on Apr 17, 2014 9:25:54 GMT -5
Reuters 4/17/14This looks terrible. I was shocked to see the part where the captain is accused of abandoning ship right after the accident occurred. I would have thought that this was a romantic notion on my part, but apparently, it's a real thing--the captain is supposed to stay and help the passengers. It's a terrible thing all around, young people dying as they go on a day trip, reminds me of the Eastland disaster, even down to the boat listing to the side and having previous safety issues. Very sad.
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Post by jewel on Apr 17, 2014 16:46:46 GMT -5
I don't think anyone expects a captain to go down with his ship anymore, but when he is the first person to escape when his ship full of passengers is sinking... well that's just too shameful. He's gonna wish he died on that ship because he is not going to be able to lift his face anywhere from now on. I understand only one lifeboat was used out of over forty and that one was used by the captain. Is this true? If it is, he is one despicable human being.
I heard family members were getting farewell text messages - that is so heartbreaking, I can't even imagine...
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Post by TheBo on Apr 22, 2014 10:12:49 GMT -5
I don't know about the text messages, fiona, it seems a little unlikely to me due to the rapidity of the accident and general chaos, but it might have happened. Not to change the subject, but here's another thing myBob found on line, and I don't even know what to think of it. LINK: 14 levels of wrong here. I mean, white supremacists and Koreans? What? I just keep hoping things will stop being so crazy, but people apparently are crazy and that's just the whole story.
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