- The Korean-American kid who got left in a holding cell for five days by the US DEA will be getting $4.1 million.
- More fun with culturalism (HT to Wangkon):
In light of two recent, deadly train crashes in Spain and Switzerland, reporters and pundits around the world are all asking the obvious question: why do Europeans wreck so many trains? What is it about their culture that causes these terrible accidents? Is it something deeply ingrained in their European psyche, like monarchism or imperialism, maybe tracing back to the Crusades or the Roman Empire, that produces negligent train conductors?
Actually wait, no, nobody is asking that. But plenty of media outlets were asking the same idiotic questions about Korean culture after the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco on July 6. Most cited the opinion of non-Korean pop intellectual Malcolm Gladwell. In a chapter in his 2008 book Outliers called ?The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes,? he posits that the historically poor safety record of a different carrier, Korean Air Lines, is the product of a uniquely Korean ?cockpit culture? in which Confucian values of deference to authority creates communication barriers between pilots, first officers and engineers. According to Gladwell, Koreans are too preoccupied with decorum and respecting social hierarchies to speak directly to one another, even in life-or-death situations like landing a plane, and deadly crashes are the result.
- So, Chris is Thailand (formerly Chris in South Korea) talks with an American ?sexpat? in Thailand. Entertaining and horrific at the same time.
- Samsung might have been caught being naughty again, this time by boosting the international benchmarks of the Galaxy S4.
- Seriously, this shit again at Korea University?
The police said Wednesday that it had questioned a student of Korea University, over charges of having sexually assaulted or secretly photographed body parts under the skirts of 19 peer students for two years.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said that the 25-year-old student, whose identity was withheld, sexually attacked three female students and video-recorded them beginning 2011.
He also videotaped under the skirts of 16 other female students in lecture theaters or bars, a wrongdoing that was uncovered after a CD-ROM disc featuring such footage was somehow reported to the university?s Gender Equality Center.
The Korea Times notes, ?Ironically, the 25-year-old student reportedly has a good reputation among his colleague students. He usually suggested drinking alcohol to female students and might have given them drinks containing drugs.? You?ll recall, of course, that this is the same school where some med students got one of their female classmates drunk and then videotaped themselves raping her. Which would have been bad enough even without the school dragging their feet and the mom of one of the rapists spreading rumors about her personal life.
- This nonsense between the cities of Seoul and Jinju has got to stop. Doesn?t the mayor of Jinju have better things to do with his time? I love Jinju?s lantern festival, but what are they going to do, bitch every time another city floats lanterns on one of its waterways? Oh, and note to Seoul: you guys really got to do something about the crowds. The only way I was able to see last year?s lantern festival was from above.
- For what it?s worth, the Korea Football Association is saying Korean fans were provoked by Japanese fans flying the rising sun flag:
The KFA said it was ?extremely disappointing that even senior members of the Japanese government denounced South Korea.?
?They should stop criticising only what South Korea did while ignoring the fact that the Japanese supporters raised a large rising sun flag in the centre of South Korea?s capital.?
The KFA had initially persuaded the Red Devils to remove the banner before the game, but when Japanese fans raised the rising sun flag Korean supporters responded by bringing back their sign, which stretched across several sections of the upper deck behind one of the goals.
Personally, I think it?s poor form for Koreans to respond to the ?rising sun? flag with political slogans and posters of historical figures that Japanese fans may not be able to read or recognize.
Instead, go with a big banner image of a mushroom cloud. Much more effective.
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