Tag Archives: South Korea

Gay Tips On Visiting South Korea

Their blog is mostly about K-pop, with which I had a brief but intense fascination during the summer of 2010.

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South Korea Trains Elite Soldiers

I doubt you’ll mind the German narration.(Tipped by JMG reader Henrik)

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The South Korean Adele

The other contestants are SO unhappy with her talent.(Source)

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What Does This Look Like?

A skyscraper project in Korea has some New Yorkers fuming. An architecture firm said Friday it “regrets” a bizarre design for two high-rises in Korea reminds people of the twin towers exploding on 9/11. A mockup shows two soaring skyscrapers connected in the middle by a “pixelated cloud” that evoked the clouds of debris that erupted from the iconic World …

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South Korea Gets 2018 Winter Olympics

The runners-up were Munich and Annecy, France.

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Today In Dick Size Silliness

I wasn’t going to bother with this story, but since about a hundred of you have emailed it to me…. Men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers may have longer penises, according to a South Korean study published in the Asian Journal of Andrology. “According to our data … the shorter index (second) finger than ring (fourth) …

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North Korea Shelling South Korea

In what is being characterized as the worst incident in decades, North Korea has begun shelling a disputed South Korean island. The South Korean military went to “crisis status,” and fighter planes were put on alert but did not take off. South Korean artillery units returned fire after the North’s shells struck South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island at 2:34 p.m., said …

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South Korea May Allow Gays In Military

We may be soon adding South Korea to the long list of nations that allow gays to serve openly in their military. Clause No. 92 in the code, established in 1962, stipulates that those who are engaged in “sodomy or other acts of molestation” are to be given a jail sentence of up to one year. The NHRC has been …

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Narsha – Bi-Ri-Bop-A

Feel the Gaga.

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Black Pearl – Go Go Ssing

A very old school Eurovision sound. K-Pop!

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Wonder Girls – 2 Different Tears

More K-pop, this time with an Italo feel and a cameo from Mad TV’s Bobby Lee. The song doesn’t really start until 1:30.

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4Minute – I My Me Mine

Continuing my K-pop fascination…

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Miss A – Bad Girl, Good Girl

I seem to be undergoing a (probably fleeting) fascination with Korean pop music, although two of these girls are actually from China.

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Torture By Girl Group

South Korea has ended its six year suspension of state-sponsored propaganda by broadcasting the below pop song across the North Korean border. Before airing a rebuke from South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, the broadcast features K-pop girl group 4minute singing their song “HuH (Hit Your Heart).” The song was specifically chosen to irk the repressive regime with its liberating lyrics: …

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S. Korea Gives Asylum To Gay Pakistani

A South Korean court has granted political asylum to a gay Pakistani man who says he faces persecution at home. The individual had petitioned the government for refugee status in February of last year. The Justice Ministry rejected his application four months later, however, saying his petition did not meet the criteria of a “well-founded fear of being persecuted” as …

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It’s Only Rape If She’s A Real Woman

In what is somehow being hailed as a landmark case, a South Korean court has convicted a man for raping a transsexual woman, but apparently only because it was proven that the woman had been having regular vaginal sex with her longtime partner, therefore making her a “real” woman capable of being raped. The Busan District Court yesterday convicted a …

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Hillary’s First Test

Secretary of State Clinton is about to visit South Korea. Just hours ahead of her arrival, North Korea has declared that they are “fully ready for war.” North Korea stepped up its war rhetoric Thursday, saying its troops are “fully ready” for war with South Korea, just hours before a visit to Seoul by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham …

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