just a dude wittering on about Korea
A short note about Im Sang-choon (임상춘), the writer for the hit kdrama 폭싹 속았수다 (When Life Gives You Tangerines) starring IU and Park Bo-gum. Very little is actually known about Im, other than the fact that she - despite the very masculine name - is a woman (the name is a nom de plume), and that she is something of a recluse. In fact, there is no guarantee that - given her growing success - she…
One youtube channel I enjoy watching is called 박가네 (ぱく家) . It's a husband-and-wife team (she's Japanese, he's Korean), they live in Japan - mostly, I think, in the snowy reaches of Hokkaido. I highly recommend their videos, although they speak in Korean, so it won't be of much use to English speakers. They talk about issues big and small relating to life in Japan - social, economic, political -…
After Yoon was released from jail, he and his wife Kim Keun-hee had a big fight. According to someone close to her, Kim said: 계획해 놓은 것이 많은데 왜 계엄을 했느냐? 너 때문에 망쳤다 I'm going to translate this in the passive tense - because the statment does not indicate personal culpability: So much planning was done, why did you have to declare martial law? You ruined everthing." The special prosecutors are…
The special prosecutor for the insurrection - Jo Eun-seok (조은석) - held a press conference yesterday to report on the results of his team's investigations. On the whole he's receiving high marks, but there are two areas of criticism that are being raised by observers. The first is that he cleared Yoon's wife of any involvement which, let's be honest, is a little difficult to swallow. After the…
This is from an exclusive JTBC news report (12/12/25) . Park Sung-jae (박성재), the justice minister under former president (and drunken disgraced proto-insurrectionist) Yoon Suk-yeol (윤석열), is currently being investigated by the special prosecution team for his role in the December 4 insurrection attempt. The prosecutors are analyzing his phone, and they found that he (Park) had direct…