by COURTNEY LEE courtney@charactermedia.com Today (April 16), South Koreans mark the one-year anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking, which killed more than 300 passengers–a majority of them high school […]
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Link Attack: Roy Choi in Watts; Dogs Rescued From Meat Farm; Custom Emoji Keyboard
Video: Roy Choi Wants the Next Food Revolution to Start in Watts The first location will be in Watts at a site that used to be smoke shop and […]
Link Attack: Yeon-mi Park, Racist Frat Email, Tokyo Students Say “We’re Friends” with Koreans
The Woman Who Faces the Wrath of North Korea Yeon-mi Park is a 21-year-old North Korean defector who has devoted herself to revealing the brutal truth about the country, […]
LINK ATTACK: Oscar Noms, Eddie Huang, ‘Fresh Off the Boat’
The Whitest Oscars Since 1998: Why the ‘Selma’ Snubs Matter For the first time in almost two decades, no person of color received an Oscar nomination for acting. The […]
LINK ATTACK: Samsung’s Dark Secret, Psy Breaks YouTube, NKorea’s Name Ban
Samsung’s Devastating Secret: The Tears of ‘Semiconductor Children’ “In a new series, The Huffington Post Korea and its media partner, The Hankyoreh, report that long-term exposure to toxic chemicals […]
LINK ATTACK: Jamie Chung, Hallyu Beauty Storm, Kim Jong Il’s Former Bodyguard
North Korean Defector: ‘I Was Kim Jong Il’s Bodyguard’ “When Kim Jong Il would arrive in his vehicle, 60- to 70-year old advisors would run away and throw themselves […]
LINK ATTACK: Naomi Ko, Jeremy Lin Goes Undercover, ‘World War Z’ North Korea
North Korea’s Ebola Response Mirrors World War Z Although the current Ebola outbreak is far from a zombie apocalypse, many readers have been comparing North Korea’s closure of its […]
Link Attack: Lubricant-loving Kim Jong-fun, the ‘100%’-Nervous Win of Miriam Lee Over Inbee Park & Kakao Terrorism Talk
What we’re reading right now. Leave it to Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert to make the most of this heavily circulated picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-eun beaming […]
Link Attack: Kim Jong-un Upset at Weather Guys; Korean Spa In Dallas; SKorean Prime Minister Nominee, Take Two
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un gets angry at the weather guys Washington Post Another week, another bit of absurdity from the world’s most isolated state. A report in the […]
Link Attack: ‘Gangnam Style’ Reaches 2 Billion Views, ‘Kopinos’ And The Korean Soup That Will Make You Gorgeous
Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Reaches Two Billion YouTube Views Rolling Stone It’s one small step for man, one giant horse-y dance for mankind. K-Pop sensation Psy’s viral smash “Gangnam Style” […]
