Monthly Archive for March, 2010

Cell Phones in North Korea?

NYTimes reports on new information project: smuggling Chinese-network cell phones into NK to interview locals

Were Koreans interned with Japanese in WWII? No.

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 [...]

Gender Balance

This Economist article is mostly about China and India, but notes South Korea’s retreat from the brink of a gender imbalance disaster.

Shoe Theft and Shoe Loss in South Korea

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.