In case you haven’t heard, Jeremy Lin left the Knicks for the Rockets recently, and people in America took it quite well. All of this despite the fact that Lin never got an contract offer from the Knicks, despite the fact that the Knicks asked him to set his own market and he did, and despite the fact that it ... Read More »
Tag Archives: Culture & Society
Feed SubscriptionKorean High Schooler Fights Racism By Saying White Men Are Superior To Korean Men
Female Korean high school student Byun Bo Kyung recently wrote an article in response to MBC‘s “The Shocking Reality About Relationships With Foreigners” piece, and it has been getting a lot of attention from the international community. In her effort to fight the racism in the MBC piece, she asserts a bunch of opinions, including why she ironically thinks white ... Read More »
Culture & Society: Japanese protests of nuclear reactors are ignorant and pointless
20,000 people gathered to protest Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko’s decision to restart nuclear reactors. They are worthless. “No to the restart!” shouted the protestors, who were led by investigative journalist Satoshi Kamata and Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe, who started an anti-nuclear petition that has so far gathered more than 7.5 million signatures. Last Saturday, Noda gave the green ... Read More »
MBC says to beware of dating foreigners + conversation about foreigners in Asia + cock discussion
The title of this “journalism” piece is “The Shocking Reality About Relationships With Foreigners“, and it was produced by MBC. Why not just title it, “HOLY FUCK FOREIGNERS ARE EVIL PLEASE GET THE FUCK OUT OF KOREA YOU LITTLE SHITS“? Would be honest, at least. Seriously though, do I even need to say how ridiculous the video is and how ... Read More »
Culture & Society: Korean American Hero Yong Hyun Kim Slaps The Shit Out Of Dumb Kid
Meet Yong Hyun Kim, Korean American/Asian American hero. You don’t know him? Neither did I before today, but he was recently arrested and charged with a felony for slapping the shit out of an annoying ass punk kid in a movie theater. At 10:40 p.m. on April 11, Kent police were called to the AMC Theater at 426 Ramsay Way ... Read More »
Culture & Society: The North Face gets hit with a record fine in Korea, but why?
The North Face was recently hit with a four and a half million dollar fine in Korea for charging a fixed price for theirs goods, and I have no idea why. The nation’s antitrust watchdog hit The North Face Korea last week with a 5.2 billion won ($4.6 million) fine for compelling all 151 of its retailers here to charge ... Read More »
Culture & Society: Japan Somehow Manages To Get Creepier About Idols
Researchers at Keio University in Japan have managed to create an interactive technology for posters, which you would think would be a precursor to the type of advertisements you saw in movies like “Minority Report“. Well, that was my first thought, but the inspiration behind the actual idea? Idols. If you’ve ever been to Tokyo or any other large Japanese ... Read More »
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