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August 29, 2005
Kim Dae-jung Gets Funky
Christina's post on journalistic foibles in the Phillippines reminds me of some of the odder things I've had to deal with since coming here. The other papers here (the Herald and the Times) refer to Kim Dae-jung as "DJ." That one took me a second to figure out. Fortunately the JoongAng's standards are higher than that. I certainly feel like some of our op-ed columns (which we're required to translate from the mother paper instead of writing ourselves) should have been "willfully destroyed," though. That said, they're just so entertaining. My favorite so far is the one that argued that Koreans are winning the global economic contest because of their innate competitiveness, as evidenced by their skill at badeuk (Go) and Kart Rider (a computer game). I also heard about a column about a year ago that extolled the virtues of Korean genetic engineering by highlighting the fact that using metal chopsticks gives Koreans the dexterity necessary to insert genes into eggs.
And the Fountain column is always very funny. I'm not sure what the purpose of it is, but it seems the writer picks a random premise out of a hat every day and then sees how he can go from that to "President Roh is bad." There have been some pretty creative ones so far. I will post links to the next interesting example.
Posted by b-applegate at August 29, 2005 2:42 AM
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Ah so you made it back alive. Good! Last weekend was hella fun. Send me the pictures. DO IT NOW! I have more pictures, so I will add yours to mine and put them all online together in one happy beautiful photoblogical love fest. Genkidene!
Posted by: Alanna at August 30, 2005 10:05 PM