NYTimes reports on new information project: smuggling Chinese-network cell phones into NK to interview locals
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
According to Wayne Patterson — the foremost scholar in English on Korean immigration — Koreans on the US mainland were exempted from evacuation and other restrictions by the Justice Department, which very carefully wrote Korean exceptions into their anti-Japanese regulations and orders. (The Ilse, p. 196) In Hawai’i, however, the military governorship there considered them [...]
This Economist article is mostly about China and India, but notes South Korea’s retreat from the brink of a gender imbalance disaster.
NYTimes reports on the arrest of a man with 1700 pairs of (allegedly) stolen shoes, and the larger problem of shoe management in a society which often goes shoeless.
