The other night I logged into my Facebook account and noticed several photos in my newsfeed from a company called Young Pioneer Tours. The company apparently specializes in group tours to North Korea. I found Young Pioneers photos amusing because they appeared to depict foreign tourists smoking marijuana inside the DPRK. I was also very surprised that [...]
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Editor’s Note - A version of this interview originally appeared in Jon Twitch’s zine - Broke in Korea. Jon has graciously allowed Asia Pundits to reprint this interview in the hope that readers in Korea and abroad can inform themselves about the various cults that are active and originate in South Korea. Armed with this information, hopefully our loyal [...]
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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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Editor’s note: This article has previously appeared on Douglas’s website–http://twokilosofbread.com/- To enjoy more of Douglas’s writing please have a look at his site. And that includes your mom. Mmm, mmm. As none of you may know, I live in Seoul. Sweet, blessed, soul-sucking Seoul. A city of four distinct seasons: cold, colder, fucking hot and humid, [...]
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Recently, in the Guardian newspaper online, an article was written regarding the public faces of North and South Korea. There is obviously no doubt who the public face of North Korea is, but also it doesn’t require a degree in rocket science to figure out who South Korea’s public face might be and it seems as [...]
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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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This weekend, things seem pretty quiet in the Land of The Morning Calm. I wish I was there, I honestly do, so I could risk my life along with so many other people I know who live there now, but is not to be. I have to look from afar and just worry at their [...]
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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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While some people are speculating that this is more about China than North Korea, the news that the US is sending advanced missile defense hardware to Guam is not exactly the best of news right now. At least, if you are interested in peace. It looks as though the U.S. has decided to spook the [...]
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