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Northern Korea competent of arming arm with thermonuclear payload

Northern Korea competent of arming arm with thermonuclear payload

magazine of information ― Northern Peninsula has sophisticated its atomic knowledge to the disk that it could arm a ballistic weapon with a thermonuclear load, a U.S. intelligence information concludes. The jolting apocalypse came retributory hours before U.S. Secretary of...

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seoraval ― 6 weeks ago

Psy Runs Free in Seoul

The Asian Persuasion ― Last Friday Psy made good on a promise that if Gangnam Style were to take the number one spot in the US charts, he’d put on a free concert in Seoul. [...]

Tags: Events, Korea, News From Korea, Free Concert, Gangnam Style, Psy

The Asian Persuasion ― 32 weeks ago

The Gangnam Style Collection

The Asian Persuasion ― It’s never going to stop. Gangnam Style is everywhere. Something about the infectious, repetitive chorus of this universally catchy song, the ludicrous video, or perhaps just the entire tone of Psy’s persona has [...]

Tags: News From Korea, English Lyrics, English Translation, 강남스타일, Gangnam Style, 싸이

The Asian Persuasion ― 39 weeks ago

Goodbye Family Mart: Convenience Store Culture in South Korea

The Asian Persuasion ― There’s a nighttime venue in Seoul that’s always a hotspot, with thousands of venues across this vast city. It’s not a club, pub, or bar. It’s your local Family Mart–or [...]

Tags: Expat Life In Korea, News From Korea, Convenience Store Culture, Cu, Cvs, Family Mart

The Asian Persuasion ― 41 weeks ago

Squid Vicious

The Asian Persuasion ― Squid is a staple food in the Korean diet, but South Korean woman got a nasty surprise in her dinner. Over the past two years I’ve eaten a lot of [...]

Tags: Food, News From Korea, Korean Food, Spermatophore, Squid

The Asian Persuasion ― 45 weeks ago

The Government is Not Laughing

The Asian Persuasion ― Freedom of speech is in South Korea’s constitution, but with a few strings attached. A number of major news outlets around the world have recently picked up the story of [...]

Tags: Expat Life In Korea, News From Korea, Censorship, Freedom Of Speech, Internet Freedom In Korea, Jung Geun Park

The Asian Persuasion ― 46 weeks ago

The Inconvenient Truth of Dirty Foreigners

The Asian Persuasion ― An update on Racist MPC Story on Foreigners. Earlier in the month, MBC, a major Korean television network, had aired an incredibly racist story about foreigners dating Korean women. A few [...]

Tags: Expat Life In Korea, News From Korea, Expat Life, Mbc, Racism, The Inconvenient Truth Of Dirty Foreigners

The Asian Persuasion ― 46 weeks ago

Where Did All the Water Go?

The Asian Persuasion ― It’s been a century since it’s been this dry on the Korean peninsula. Everyone who lives in Korea typically looks ahead with some degree of dread to the rainy season. [...]

Tags: News From Korea, Drought, Monsoon Season, North Korea, Rainy Season, South Korea

The Asian Persuasion ― 47 weeks ago

Wasted Waygukins

The Asian Persuasion ― Korea is a heavy, heavy drinking culture. The Chosun Ilbo says it’s rubbing off on foreigners. When most people think of countries that drink a lot, they think of Russia [...]

Tags: Expat Life In Korea, News From Korea, Black Out Korea, Drinking Culture, Drinking In Korea, Foreigners

The Asian Persuasion ― 47 weeks ago

Racist MBC Story on Foreign Men

The Asian Persuasion ― Foreign men are sexist, womanizing, HIV-ridden thieves, according to a story aired on MBC in South Korea. Let me be clear about something first and foremost. Korea is not a racist [...]

Tags: News From Korea, Biased Reporting, Foreigners, Mbc, Racism, Xenophobia

The Asian Persuasion ― 50 weeks ago

The Price of Success

The Asian Persuasion ― South Koreans spend a lot of time and money on education: but money seems to be the defining factor. The the Chosun Ilbo recently reported that parental income was the [...]

Tags: News From Korea, Teaching, Education In Korea, English Education, Hagwon, Income Gap

The Asian Persuasion ― 50 weeks ago

Nude Koreans: Concubine Film Causing a National Debate

The Asian Persuasion ― Although it hasn’t even been released in theaters yet, Concubine, a new South Korean film is causing a media frenzy. Despite the fact that western audiences generally have accepted nudity [...]

Tags: News From Korea, Concubine, Concubine Film, Korean Movies, Korean Nudity, News

The Asian Persuasion ― 50 weeks ago

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