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North Korean Football Team Reprimanded in Public
By Lee Yoo Eun
North Korea’s national football team were reprimanded in public for losing all of their matches in the FIFA World Cup, South Korea’s Chosun reported. According to the source, team members were summoned to a large auditorium at the Working People’s Culture Palace and were...
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China: Sino-North Korean relations
By John Kennedy
With an incident-free Invincible Spirit wrapping up today, don't miss this post from Sinologistical Violoncellist's Adam Cathcart looking at some of the dynamics in the relationship between China and North Korea.
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South Korea:Water Subdued, May As Tensions
By Lee Yoo Eun
The annual torrential rain swept over the country and brought a faint hope on the Inter-Korean relations. South Korea's Yonhap reported that as North Korea had informed South prior to it's dam water release into the Imjin River that flows to its Southern neighbor, experts...
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North Korea: Beauty Plays In the Psychological Warfare
By Lee Yoo Eun
A North Korean waitress who looks much alike South Korean actress has become a new celebrity in South Korea. A YouTube video of a North Korean college girl praising its regime’s generosity on her rich family has drawn several ten thousand views. North Korean defectors in...
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North Korea: Amnesty International Reveals Crumbling Health Care
By Lee Yoo Eun
A bleak picture of North Korea's disastrous health care system has revealed in Amnesty International's new a report “The Crumbling State of Health Care in North Korea” [Ko] disclosing a ‘dire' situation where amputations are carried without anesthesia and hospitals suffer from a shortage of sterilized...
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Korea: Pricking Fingers
By Oiwan Lam
Ask a Korean! explains how pricking fingers helps to relieve indigestion and other symptoms.
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Global: Statistics on Countries Participating in World Cup
By Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
SRF from GeoCurrent Events blog writes about the economic geography of the 2010 FIFA World Cup participant countries.
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China and Korea: National sentiment controlled by rumors
By Oiwan Lam
Key from China Hush blogs about the anti-Korean sentiment in China which has been fanned by a number of rumors.
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South Korea: Tensions Went Under World Cup Anesthestia
By Lee Yoo Eun
The sharp tension between two Koreas which had been escalating ever since the sinking of a South Korean warship by a supposed North Korean torpedo attack have momentarily numbed by high emotion that only World Cup can bring. South Korean blogs are now inundating with heartful...
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South Korea: Netizens Question Cause of Cheonan Tragedy
By Oiwan Lam
Ronda Hauben from Ohmynews blogs about south Korean netizen's doubt about the cause of Cheonan Tragedy and government's move to invite bloggers and twitterers “to dispel any doubts among the young that North Korea was behind the deadly attack”.
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China and Hong Kong: Responses to Cheonan sinking incident
By Oiwan Lam
The release of the international investigation report on sinking of Cheonan in May 20, 2010, concluding that the South Korean warship had been bombed by a North Korean torpedo has alleviating the tension in Northeast Asia region. South Korea suspended all trade and investment with North Korea...
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South Korea: The sinking of ROKS Cheonan
By Oiwan Lam
Ask a Korean! addresses the issue of the sinking of ROKS Cheonan by answering what you need to know and what you need to think about the issue.
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South Korea: Critical discourse on North Korea
By Oiwan Lam
K. M. Lawson from The Korea History Blog criticized South Korean concerned scholars (the Alliance of Scholars Concerned About Korea) on the lack of critical discourse on North Korea when countering the mainstream media report on the Korea crisis, in particular sinking of the South Korean vessel...
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Russia and Korea: Siberian Timbering
By Oiwan Lam
Robert Neff from The Marmot's Hole blogs about Korea's role in the logging of Siberian timber, in particular how North Korean are working as slave loggers in Russia.
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Korea: Lunar New Year
By Oiwan Lam
Ask a Korean! translated a story written by Joo Seong-Ha about Lunar New Year in North Korea.
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