Mr. Bowie came back!!! I'm so excited now :D

New York Times Op-ed
South Korea's Generation Gap
By HANS SCHATTLE
December 21, 2012
SEOUL - There is an expression in Korean - “men-boong” - which means feeling shell-shocked to the point of mental collapse. My university students here are saying they are completely men-boong with the election of Park Geun-hye as South Korea’s next president. And many ( Read more... )

Maybe as expected, people started to choose to die
(rather than to live where the justice is hardly valued).

Pyo Chang-won, who once was a very famous professor of a police academy but resigned for speaking up more freely about the corruption of the police and the prosecution, and the infringement of freedom of speech, offered free hugs to the citizens, especially 48% of the voters who voted for Moon Jae-in.


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8. The ministry of health and welfare just announced that it will reduce the service for the older and the low-income group.

6. And he, the candidate we supported, said during the ceremony to disband the camp, "rivers slowly wind their ways, but never give up reaching to the ocean ( Read more... )

3. The privatization of the water supply seems to begin.
4. The public utilities prices started to be raised.
5. A former fired employee who had just got reinstated but discriminated committed a suicide last night.

This Christmas will be the most depressing holiday for us. We're just not in the mood to enjoy the holiday, literally speaking.

1. The podcasters who reported the corruptions of the regime and satirize the current politics for years will be examined by the prosecution.
2. It's just found that the proper results of the keyword "privatization" don't appear on NAVER, one of the largest portal site in Korea.

I'd never thought that I would have to live under such a government ( Read more... )