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Sorry I haven’t posted anything this week folks; I’ve gotten just a little too lost in my offline writing work and research this vacation. But with only 3 weeks left of the semester break though, I’m slowly returning to a more normal schedule, and will try to start posting more regularly from next week.
Until then, have a good 설날 everyone, and make sure not to miss Bittersweet Joke, a documentary about unwed mothers in Korea, playing on BBC World at 6:30pm, Saturday Feb 9. See Tales of Wonderlost for the details.
Saturday
— What do Jack Nicholson and Co-Ed School have in common? (Angry K-Pop Fan)
— Sexual harassment education in cartoon form (ILDA)
— Everything you ever wanted to know about aegyo (My First Love Story)
— The reality of the Korean acting industry as told by an anonymous actor of 10 years (Netizen Buzz)
— South Korea slips lower in press freedom index (Asian Correspondent; Global Voices; The Marmot’s Hole; koreaBANG)
Sunday
— Nudes in Korean art (The Korea Herald)
— The (Korean) Military Doesn’t Get Respect (Sorry, I Was Drunk)
— Peaceshannon’s Conference Speech on Korea’s Special Adoption Law (Tales of Wonderlost)
— Why Are We Still Talking About Sunye’s Non-pregnancy? (Seoulbeats)
— Rapist of 8-year-old in Naju sentenced to life in jail (Korea Joongang Daily)
Monday
— Alternative living in Korea: 3 women philosophers farming in the woods (ILDA)
— “It is no surprise that Asian women are the most popular women of color in porn…” (Phenomenology/Intervention)
— AKB48 member’s ‘penance’ shows flaws in idol culture (The Japan Times; The Guardian; Asian Junkie, 1, 2, 3, 4; io9; Frank Kogan; The Atlantic)
— Government Report: Korea Ranked #1 for Sex with Minors in Southeast Asia (Idle Worship)
— Park Geun-Hye & Fashion: Still HATE this Double Standard (Korean Gender Cafe)
Tuesday
— Korea still has too few women execs (The Korea Herald)
— The “Room Thing” And Other Indirect Chinese References to Sex (Speaking of China)
— Actress Kim Nam Joo praised for admitting that she starves to maintain her perfect figure (Netizen Buzz; Korean women in their late 20s miss avg. 4.5 meals a month)
— Villages paying parents to have more children (The Hankyoreh)
— Korean plastic surgeon shares his views on industry regulations (South China Morning Post)
Wednesday
— U.S. Increases Crackdown on Chinese and Korean Birth Tourism “Maternity Hotels” (Idle Worship)
— Getting an HIV/AIDS check in Seoul (The Kimchi Queen)
— Korean government to push passage of anti-discrimination bill (The Marmot’s Hole)
— Hwang Woo-seok extracted ovaries without patients’ knowledge or consent (ILDA)
— Gay Korean Actor Reveals Coming Out Struggles (The Kimchi Queen; E News World; Global Voices)
Thursday
— K-pop’s Not All Gold and Diamonds, Boy (Seoulbeats)
— South Korean Flight Attendants Fight for the Right to Wear Pants (Jezebel; The Seattle Times; The Huffington Post)
— An estimated 16 million Chinese women are married to gay men & don’t know it (Bloomberg)
— Why Girls Love “Boys’ Love”: The World of K-Pop Fanfiction (The One Shots)
— The 2005 English Spectrum Incident Part 31: Anti-English Spectrum founder’s statement (Gusts of Popular Feeling)
Friday
— “I Got A Boy” & SNSD In-Flux (The Mind Reels)
— The emergence of K-pop: a history from Lee to Gee (Koreanology)
— Screenings of White Night, Suddenly Last Summer and Going South with English Subtitles (The Kimchi Queen)
— Suzy crowned the CF queen of 2012 (Omona They Didn’t)
— QROK Radio: the only radio station in English by, for and about the GLBTQ community (The Kimchi Queen)
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