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[welcome to eclexys] Five Principles of Educational Reform For Korea's Future: That said, it's not that I don't have dealings with students who just got out of high school, or with people who have gone through the system. In fact, some very interesting discussions in class this semester have involved the (mostly quite intelligent and quite interesting) advanced English students discussing this very topic, which was fascinating... doubly so because the Social Welfare majors—people wanting someday to specialize in Social Work and Counseling and things like that—were chock full of ideas about how to "fix" the Korean education system, which everyone seems to agree is deeply, deeply broken; meanwhile, the Education majors seemed eager to praise the Korean public school system and only reticently got into talking about what could be improved, after they seemed comfortable establishing that things are in fact pretty good.

[Lakeshore Laments] North Korea’s Punk Card: It doesn’t take anyone to figure that North Korea has pulled the Punk Card for how many years..., Kim Gye-gwan, has told the US ABC News network. He said North Korea had enough atomic bombs to protect itself against attack by the US and was building more. He refused to say whether North Korean

[Mango's Blog] Mango and The Crazy Bead Lady, Episode 0: Most of the women (and probably men, from what Rebekah tells me) that participate in online dating do so for a reason. They are a collection of misfits and socially awkard people that have some debilitating injury, or gigantic skeleton hanging in their closet.

[Blog.marmot.cc] The Marmot’s Hole: As far as South Korean finlandization is concerned, while I don’t discount the possibility of Seoul terminating its alliance with Washington and asking U.S. troops to go home, the chances of that happening as a result of North Korean behavior — particularly threats — are, IMHO, very slim. To the extent that we are seeing some very curious moves on the part of the Roh administration in terms of Seoul’s relationships with Washington and Tokyo, the prime motivating factor is not the desire to keep out of the North Koreans’ crosshairs, but the desire to avoid having to choose between China on one side and an increasingly close U.S.-Japan alliance on the other. I could even foresee a scenario — albeit a highly unlikely one — where Seoul enters into some sort of “confederation” relationship with Pyongyang, but such an event would likely to be the result of nationalism and what some might argue to be the misplaced belief that such a move would bring the peninsula one step closer to unification, NOT because Cheong Wa Dae is pissing its pants about North Korean nukes.

[Johnhofmann.com] Sleeping with the fan on: Even my former college roommate who was over in Korea around when I was (although I got there before she did and left after she did) was kind of protected because she was an actress in a play and lived in a beautiful hotel and always has translators with her. Not to mention that while I was trying to figure out how to buy a subway card (in Korean) after they changed to a new system, she was being driven around Seoul and appearing on morning talk shows and everyone was fawning over her because she could count to six and say "it's raining" in Korean. However, Katrina is Katrina and is absolutely irrepressible, so she really absorbed a lot of what was going on around her.

[Cgyopo.blogspot.com] A Canadian-Gyopo's Tour of Duty (2004-05): Where Has All the ...: Just your typical Korean-Canadian male who decided to quit his job making alright coin back home, who sold his car, who got his parents to move into his place while he's gone, who is currently unemployed, who is taking Korean Language lessons at a University in Korea...and is 30 years-old by Korean Age.

[Asinah.org] The ASEAN Blog: Kim Jong-il: The North Korean government has vigorously denied these reports. Radiopress, the Japanese radio monitoring agency, reported later that month that North Korean media has stopped referring to Kim by the honorific "dear leader" and that instead Korean Central Broadcast, the Korean Central News Agency and other media have been describing him simply as "general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] National Defense Commission, and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army". It is unclear whether the possible curtailing of Kim's personality cult indicates a struggle within the North Korean leadership or whether it is a deliberate attempt by Kim to moderate his image in the outside world.

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