Posted on November 17, 2009 by George Deftereos
*Low birth rates in Korea
*Shipbuilding in China
*Food Fight
*nitpicking the Korea Times (endlessly)
It’s no secret that I love The Economist (they have an excellent style guide) ever since a friend gave me a month’s subscription as a present. Now I get paid to read it. Reading the October 31st-November 6th issue about fertility confirmed some of my ideas [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2009 by George Deftereos
I read an article about a man hitting a child with his car and taking him to a hospital. The hospital tells the man to take the child (only suffering minor injuries and apparently being able to walk on his own) to a bigger hospital. The man instead takes the child to a reservoir and [...]
Filed under: Korea, crime | Tagged: crime in Korea, Korea, Korea Times, Man Kills Child | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 16, 2009 by George Deftereos
This is the first of our 96 part series “O Rly!? Lemme see that!”
Myth #1: “She’s Korean. She’s obviously plastic”
Such a sweeping statement is bound to be flawed. Looking at a per capita basis, Korea ranks a dismal 27th (19.654 per 100,000). Switzerland takes top spot with 214.642 per 100,000. Australia sits at #7 (66.227). Of [...]
Filed under: "O Rly!?", International, Korea, Korea Times, United States, fashion | Tagged: suicide in Korea, Korea Times, myths, plastic surgery in Korea | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 11, 2009 by George Deftereos
When minorities are resposible for all societies woes. Drug Crimes Increase
The article states that that of the 2965 people arrested or booked for drug use or trafficking in the first five months of 2009, 345 were foreign nationals. This marks a 95% increase over last year. The overall increase from last year is 7.6%. Now, apart from [...]
Filed under: Korea Times, human rights | Tagged: Korea Times, drugs in Korea, foreigners and drugs in Korea, AIDS in Korea | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 9, 2009 by George Deftereos
A former colleague would always point out how un-news like the Korea Times is because of what they publish. What kind of a newspaper publishes opinion pieces on the front page? Take the article “Disgraced Clone Master Receives Science Award”. At least there weren’t any spelling mistakes, this time. On the website, the article is [...]
Filed under: Bible, Korea, Korea Herald, Religion, Vatican | Tagged: Catholics and abortion, editorials, George Tiller, Korea Times, Korean media, opinion as news, pro-life and George Tiller, the Bible and abortion | Leave a Comment »
