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He’s back. So is the movie that didn’t fare so well. The film, Gi Joe: the Retaliation will be happening soon also starring The Rock and Bruce Willis. Here’s an interesting quote since it’s about the language barrier and how things go when one part goes wrong. “”But I’d just forget every line – literally every single line – when I was told that I’d pronounced one word wrong while acting. Having to think that I somehow have to fix my pronunciation for that one word would just make me totally lost at the set. There’s a huge difference between making conversation in a foreign language and acting in a foreign language. I feel the most comfortable when I perform for pieces that are based on Korean culture. So I can’t help but feel that I could’ve done better if this were a Korean movie.”” The movie will hit theaters in the summer.
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Mad Cow is back. Yeah the meat looks red and good and there are plenty of beef farms everywhere in the US. Some Koreans chains are halting the US beef. “South Korea is the world’s fourth-largest importer of U.S. beef, buying 107,000 tons of the meat worth $563 million in 2011″ The benefits, or the results of eating Mad Cow tainted beef? You get a brain disease! The article makes mention that it takes 40-50 days to ship beef overseas. That’s crazy too. (WTSP – Mad Cow Beef)
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That thing some people call. “The Han” is this it? In a blog post by Winston Chung written about Korean Rage. He collects many references to Korean anger. (SFGATE - Rage) The Han gets mentioned later on in the article in a quote from a previous article in the WSJ. “The suicide problem has also been linked with the Korean concept of “han,” a kind of stoicism also tied to feelings of anger and impotence that arise when facing a situation that can’t be changed. Han, deeply embedded in Korean society, has been linked to depression. “When a situation is bad and they can’t show their cool selves, Koreans tend to get frustrated, give up and take drastic choices,” says Hwang Sang-min, a professor of psychology at Yonsei University.” (WSJ – Suicides)
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[youtube]8qx23sJfiLs[/youtube] UFO Over South Korea. The video has over 2 million hits. It looks like a flying hat. A person from NASA says it’s space junk? Don’t you have to be in space for that?
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Some of you will actually read this book but most of you won’t. This is a book called Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden. Shin Dong-Hyuk is the only known escapee who was born and raised in a North Korean prison. This might be a book to check out. Here’s some questions asked about the book and answers as appeared on NPR – Escape from Camp 14.
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