Tabloid blogwatch
Slightly different from the Celebrity BlogWatchTM, this feed aggregator pulls posts from sites which cover Korean tabloid-type stories other than pretty photos of TV and pop stars. At the moment, I’m pulling the Marmot’s “Korean Tabloid Crap” category plus Korean stories from the Asian Sex Gazette. Let me know what other down-market sources are out there.
Not quite fitting into any category is the excellent Korea Beat, a survey of some of the Korean language press. That’s included on this page too, as the stories tend to be more tabloid than broadsheet.
Posted 5 months ago: Changing attitudes about love and marriage in rich Asian countries such as Taiwan, Japan and South Korea are pushing many desperate bachelors to seek out brides in other, poorer nations around the region. [
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Posted 5 months ago: South Korea international Hwang Jae-won publicly apologized for the "disruption" he caused after being linked with Internet-based rumors that he pressured his girlfriend to undergo an abortion after she was found to be pregnant. [
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Posted 9 months ago: South Korean authorities caught nearly 24,000 prostitutes, pimps or clients in a two-month crackdown on the sex trade, the National Police Agency said last week. [
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Posted 9 months ago: A topless photo of South Korea's top ballerina in the October issue of the Korean Vogue magazine has cost her a third of her monthly salary. Kim Joo-Won, 29 was disciplined by the state-financed art troupe's disciplinary committee not as much for the nude photo but for engaging in "outside performance" without permission, a spokeswoman said. [
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Posted 21 hours ago: This is a bit of a funny little article that, i think, helps to illustrate a bit the mood of the media during the explosion of candlelight vigils over US beef imports. Kuki News wanted you to make sure that, as you were out keeping your children safe from mad ... [
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Posted 21 hours ago: Hmmm... like Angry Asian Man, I too am at a loss for words. In an interview with USA Today the singer said of his new album, "I hope Koreans, Americans, Jews, blacks, whites and John Mellencamp aren't offended." Some Jewish kids still trying Some white kids trying too But millions of real American ... [
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Posted 45 hours ago: The Chosun Ilbo reports that Presidents Bush and Lee are getting along like old friends (오랜 친구를 만난 듯) and notes that LMB showed Bush a map of Korea and pointed out Dokdo, to which Bush replied, "I know Dokdo Island." [
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Posted 45 hours ago: So it can snap pictures like these, natch. Funny, those cheerleaders don't look very Chinese... [
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Posted 45 hours ago: This photo is, for the moment, the front image for the Chosun Ilbo's online photo section. The composite image, made from photos taken from this gallery, shows the warm welcome (환영) the president is receiving in some quarters and the protests (반대) he has gotten in others. [
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Posted 2 days ago: Lee Hyeong-seok, head of some organization (한국땅이름학회) in charge of Korean geographical names, went to China and inspected some maps there, finding that the name "Sea of Japan" is in wide use there, and that Dokdo does not appear on them at all. [
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Posted 3 days ago: The next US ambassador to South Korea, Catherine Stevens, was once an English teacher via the Peace Corps, and her old friends and students are excited to see her again. As soon as 55-year old Catherine Stevens (Korean name Shim Eun-gyeong) heard that the US Senate had confirmed her appointment to ... [
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Posted 3 days ago: I guess we can all sleep soundly at night knowing the national honor is to be protected. The National Police Agency announced on the fourth that the first recruitment drive for a Dokdo guard force created in response to Japanese assertions of sovereignty over Dokdo has resulted in 18 applicants for ... [
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Posted 3 days ago: For a few laughs don't miss Stuff Korean Moms Like. [
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Posted 3 days ago: Get me 200cc of nicotine, stat! Found at Media Daum Agora. [
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Posted 3 days ago: Original article. Sometimes you really have to think that school is the most dangerous place for a Korean kid to be. It seems like every day there are a new batch of articles about teachers sexually assaulting their students. On the other hand, I guess, considering how much time Korean ... [
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Posted 4 days ago: Very exciting news. The Joongang Ilbo notes that the anti-counterfeiting holograms on the reverse sides of the 5,000 and 10,000-won notes, maps of the Korean peninsula, feature Dokdo on them (massively enlarged, of course, to make it visible). The paper wryly notes that one of the two factories where the ... [
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Posted 5 days ago: According to this article the worsening economic situation this summer has caused an unusually large number of people to abandon their pets to the streets. The Korean Animal Protection Society (동물보호협회), located in Daemyeong-dong in Daegu, has recently been receiving 10 to 20 reports of abandoned dogs and cats every day. ... [
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Posted 5 days ago: From August 29th to 31st the New Ohtani Hotel in Tokyo will hold the "Asia Top Gallery Art Fair", but Korean artist Lee Jong-sang's paintings of Dokdo, which the 70-year old artist began painting in 1977, will not be exhibited. The hotel made the decision after the latest flare-up over ... [
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Posted 6 days ago: Original article. In the afternoon a major incident broke out on the subway as passengers, fearful of fire due to smoke pouring out, were evacuated by subway workers. On the 1st at approximately 3:50 pm on a train bound for Cheonho Station from Sindang Station on line 6, passengers suddenly began to smell ... [
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Posted 6 days ago: After reading a couple of interesting blog posts on movie subtitling (here on Japanese to English and here on English to Japanese) I thought it would be fun to have a post on the Korean subtitling of English-language movies. Though it's admittedly been quite a while since I watched a ... [
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Posted 6 days ago: So next time I break into your house, feel free to whack with me all the coffee mugs you've got. A judgment has been made that hitting and injuring a drunken stranger who comes into one's home is self-defense. The Seongbuk Police Department in Seoul announced on the 28th that it had ... [
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Posted 7 days ago: A cute little statue waits as experts at the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (립문화재연구소) perform restoration work on the 11th National Treasure, the stone pagoda of Mireuk-sa temple. [
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Posted 7 days ago: I'm combining two articles because I think they make a good pairing. The first is this Sports Seoul article about the process of creating tag lines for Korean movie posters. Being able to read hangul will help you appreciate the article -- sorry to anyone who can't, but this is ... [
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Posted 8 days ago: The National Folk Museum of Korea (English homepage) is currently holding a neat-looking exhibition of 'first' Korean products, like this, supposedly the first Korean-made container for selling ice-cream cakes. This Chosun Ilbo gallery has several other pictures, including the first Hyundai Pony and the first Korean "cider". [
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Posted 2 days ago: Hisses the deliciously catty Ms. at Pop Seoul: Pop diva, Lee Hyori, looks great on top but not on the bottom -check out the flatness that is her behind which is sliding down her leg You can see the photo that inspired that quote and launched a fur-flying comment section at Pop Seoul. UnFLATtering references to Kim KardASSian, J. Lard, ... [
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Posted 8 days ago: Somebody’s created a blog of Korean actresses and models who haven’t gone under the knife. Actually kind of interesting. [
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Posted 13 days ago: Yes… yes she is. (NSFW) [
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Posted 16 days ago: A netizen at Media Daum posts that a Japanese TV morning program made fun of Korea’s now popular “mushroom hairdo.” Scoundrels! [
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Posted 16 days ago: Dokkaebi News reports that an online video of two lesbians making out on a Shanghai subway has Chinese society in an uproar. We are pretty sure one of the two in the video is a woman. The other one appears to be a woman, but we’re not sure. At any rate, the two go at it pretty hot and heavy ... [
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Posted 5 weeks ago: Not too long ago Scott Burgeson wrote about the lack of the ‘Summer of Love’ in Korea, but apparently not everyone read it. While on my way home I had the opportunity to encounter the “Boobi Boobi” bus - not quite sure what it is, but according to my friends…boobi boobi is Korean slang for what my male dog does ... [
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Posted 6 weeks ago: I really begin to wonder about rocker Yoon Do Hyun’s sensibilities when he talks of kissing his daughter, French-style. Yuck! ShareThis [
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Posted 7 weeks ago: At the press conference with DMC from RUN-DMC today, the Korean press corps asked about the mad cow issue, to which DMC, who had no idea what they were talking about, gave a very general and joking reply along the lines of “Well, I guess no one wants mad cow” and “Gotta protect the people, safety first.” After the Korean ... [
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Posted 8 weeks ago: I had just finished watching this video in The Sun when I figured, since I was there and all, to take a quick peak at Page 3. Lo and behold, however, I learned that none other than Samsung (Dae~hanminguk!) has done a viral ad with The Sun’s Page 3 Girls: The girls in the ad, BTW, are (following links NSFW!) ... [
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Posted 10 weeks ago: Over at One Free Korea, guest blogger Dan Bielefeld posted on a special screening of Crossing near the National Assembly. Here is a link to Crossing’s web page. You can get more information about the movie here, here and here. Bielefeld also passed this along: I heard there is a showing this Friday at 2pm at COEX for the western ... [
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Posted 12 weeks ago: Sharp journalism like this is why the Chosun is Korea’s leading newspaper, although they seem to be doing some other things right as well. [
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Posted 12 weeks ago: Jesus (read the comments, too)… are even Gitmo inmates forced to suffer comparable indignities? [
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Posted 12 weeks ago: The child-on-child sexual assault scandal in Daegu has prompted the government to get tough on online porn. Nooooo! The government is putting together a taskforce that would force Internet portal sites and P2P businesses to block porn and other illegal information. I guess that means no more Bangbros via eMule. Moreover, the government is planning to spend some 234.9 billion ... [
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Posted 3 months ago: Stephen Colbert and Rain finally had their dance off. According to yesterday’s Korea Times: Top Korean singer Rain met his match during his visit to Los Angeles for the promotion of his movie, “Speed Racer.” The 25-year-old singer appeared on top comedian Stephen Colbert’s show “The Colbert Report.” Video here. Dialogue obviously kept to a minimum to avoid any “Engrish” ... [
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Posted 3 months ago: In usually quiet Chungcheongbuk-do, local prosecutors have booked a 40-year-old National Assembly secretariat staffer for having sex with prostitutes in China. The staffer is accused of employing the services of hard-working bar girls in lovely Qingdao, China some three times since 2006. All this would have probably have passed without incident had the accused not posted nude photos of his ... [
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Posted 3 months ago: We can thank Ok So-ri for something other than providing tons of quality blog material — the naughty actress’s petition to the Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of Korea’s criminal adultery law will be heard Thursday. ShareThis [
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Posted 3 months ago: Actor Choi Min-soo apologized today for punching an elderly (in his 70s) Itaewon restaurant owner in the face and then trying to flee with the victim still on the hood of his car. At a press conference yesterday, Choi said that no matter what he said, it wouldn’t be an excuse. The incident took place on April 21, and Choi ... [
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Posted 3 months ago: A Seoul court has found guilty a school headmaster who was caught using his cell phone camera on a bus to take photos of a skirt-wearing high school student’s thighs. The bench ruled that although the photos were taken in a public place and the girl’s thighs were exposed by her own choice, the photos could still provoke feelings of ... [
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Posted 4 months ago: As a break from all the heaviness the Hole has been experiencing lately, I present the lovely (but apparently not so talented) Moon Ji-eun. [
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Posted 4 months ago: From the Chosun Ilbo: The suspicious death of a Chinese actress and model has shocked both South Korea and China. Tan Jing (Cyworld blog), 24, was found dead at an apartment building in Guangzhou, China earlier this month. Local police initially believed she was a sex worker. The death has caused a stir among South Korean and Chinese netizens as ... [
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