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guard · korea · News · prison · robot · Nov 25, 2011

Prison Guard Robot in South Korea

You’d wish this has guns, or something that would keep prisoners in, but instead, this is just a cute looking robot that rolls around and observes prison cells. At 850,000, you’d hope that this would be used as a weapon rather than a remote control car! (Digital Trends – S Korea Robots)

beads · cremate · crematorium · death · korea · News · Nov 14, 2011

Ashes to Beads? Your Dead Relatives Can Be Jewelry

Grieving and missing your deceased friend or family member? Get the ashes, stuff them into beads, and make a necklace. It’s filled with sad stories about people missing their loved ones enough to make jewelry with their remains inside. This quote by AP mentions, “A law passed in 2000 requires anyone burying their dead after 2000 to remove the grave 60 years after burial.” That means, something needs to get done with the rotted up corpse. Beads, yes that’s the answer. People say Japan is weird? (AP - Korea Death Beads)

chocolate · Food · holiday · korea · News · pepero · pepero day · South Korea · Nov 11, 2011

Today is Pepero Day in South Korea

The calendar says 11/11/11, which means one thing in South Korea: Pepero Day. They call it Pepero Day because these skinny, chocolate covered biscuits resemble the numbers that make up the date 11/11. It’s huge holiday over there, with markets and convenient stores decked out with fancy displays and gift baskets of these snacks, a knock off of the more familiar Pocky brand. The concept is that you gift boxes of these confectionary treats to your significant other as a symbol of your affection. Barf, right? As if we need another commercialized holiday to set a standard for how we hang in our relationships. Even the Asian markets here in the States gave into the South Korean craze this year. The photo above wasn’t even half of the display that I saw while shopping for groceries yesterday.

annapurna · climber · himalayas · korea · mountain · News · Park Young-seok · Oct 31, 2011

Climber Park Young-seok Perishes in the Himalayas

Park Young-seok was regarded as thee climber in Korea and now he and his team is thought to be perished on Annapurna in the Himalayas. He’s scaled the tallest mountains in the world, and were missing since October 18th. His last message referred to a heavy avalanche. Some of us want a race to somewhere or see the highest this or that, and it comes with a price once in a while. (WSJ – Park Young-seok)

australia · baseball · dae-sung Koo · korea · korean · News · pitcher · sports · Oct 29, 2011

Dae-Sung Koo Pitching at 42 in Australia

Barely making a dent in the history of Major League Baseball, Dae-Sung Koo is now pitching at 42 years of age in the Australian Baseball League which is now in it’s second season. The most remarkable thing that you might want to remember about the guy? He was a righty as a kid, but then switched to being a lefty. Who does that? Other than that, this once star of Korean Baseball, Japanese Baseball and MBLer is now in yet another continent throwing and he’s good at 42. (smh – Dae-Sung Koo)