- South Korean climber Oh Eunsun becomes first woman to reach summit of all fourteen peaks over 8000 meters (AP via LAT, Reuters, Guardian, Yonhap, Joongang Daily, Korea Herald, Korea Times)
- Dispute exists over alpinist's feat (BBC)
- South Koreans stream to memorial altars for victims of Chonan sinking (Yonhap)
- Heritage Foundation senior researcher says ROK unlikely to respond militarily (Yonhap)
- Experts say sinking shows hole in ROK defense (Yonhap)
- North Korean watchers report boasting about "revenge" brought by sinking (Joongang Daily)
- ROK foreign exchange traders buy $1.5 billion to offset "excessive" rise of Korean won (Reuters, Bloomberg)
- HSBC head says bank will not bid for Korea Exchange Bank (Reuters)
- South Korea lifts iPad "ban" (WSJ, Yonhap, Joongang Daily)
- President Lee says Saemangeum tidal flat reclamation will change Korea's history (Yonhap)
- Shockwave ripples through washed-up former athlete community as Pete Rose's girlfriend, Kiana Kim, revealed to be Real Doll (ESPN)
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- Due to the Osan Handcuff Scandal earlier this year changes have now been made to the US-ROK Status of Forces Agreement: Korean police will be able to condu...
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If she's gonna dig for gold, then why target Pete Rose?
ReplyDeleteHey, maybe she's not digging for gold but dates Pete Rose because she grew up a Reds fan and liked the way he played ball back in the '60s & '70s....no?
ReplyDeleteAnyways...this is just another story of a young Korean hottie wrapped around the arms of an old washed up celebrity (a la Nicolas Cage, Woody Allen, etc).
I get a lot of hits to this particular post ("Real Doll" is blogging gold!), so I come back and re-read it from time to time.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to respond with something I probably should have months ago: Soon-yi Previn a "young Korean hottie"? Only one word in between those quotation marks is correct, one is still sorta correct, and the other is flat-out wrong.
Don't make me put up links.