Yasukuni Shrine, located in the centre of Tokyo is undeniably beautiful and rather serene, at least from the outside. Why then, does this place of quiet worship enrage so many in northeast Asia whenever Japanese dignitaries visit the shrine? What is it about Yasukuni that causes South Korea to cancel its foreign minister’s trip to [...]
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Those of you who read the first article I ever published on Asiapundits, ‘My Korean Family’, will know that I definitely do not fit the description of the perfect son in-law in a Korean family. I don’t give gifts (except at birthdays, Chuseok, and Seollal), I will refuse an invitation to go and see them if I [...]
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Last week I criticised the image that Psy is projecting to Korea and the world, but his most recent video does include some buffoonery based on the unfair treatment of women in a patriarchal Confucian society (if you can fight your way through the vulgarity of it all). I don’t think anyone will really notice and I don’t believe his work [...]
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Since the warnings from North Korea for all foreigners to evacuate the South in case of a disastrous thermonuclear war and preparations to launch missiles, we have seen mass hysteria in the foreign community living in South Korea with thousands upon thousands quickly arranging flights, boats, canoes, and making rafts out of furniture. Some have even [...]
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With all the shenanigans that are going on North of the border, I wondered if there can be anything we can learn about North Korea without even stepping foot in the country. Do South Koreans have anything in common with North Koreans? They share the same peninsula, sometimes the same family, and – up until [...]
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According to a recent Korea Herald article, since Park Geun Hye took office in February there is a move to place more importance on happiness and well being in the Korean youth, with more career education and also a reduction in the amount of tests they have to take (I will believe it when I see it). It seems [...]
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I was asked the other day by a reader of one of my blogs if there is any country other than Korea that had such an accelerated path from colony to third world to first world in such a short period of time. The answer must certainly be no and this could have created a curious and sometimes [...]
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Disclaimer: All names, dates and locations have been changed for obvious reasons “It was definitely the best sex I’d ever had, cause it was so forbidden. As a 23 year old guy that’s all you want. That’s all you’ve read about and seen in porn films. I was living the fantasy myself… I didn’t think [...]
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What do you think when you see a white Western man with an Asian woman? Perhaps if I asked you this question whilst hand in hand with my Korean wife your response might be something like, ‘Nothing different to any other couple.’ I would love to believe that this is honestly true, however, my experiences [...]
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Today is International Women’s Day, so with that in mind, there is some disturbing news concerning women’s rights in Korea, focusing on the nursing profession. Last week Ko Jin Hee, a Donga University student discovered a worrying trend in Korea’s hospitals about the treatment of nurses. A survey of 347 nurses found that 55% of [...]
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