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As an Angry Birds fan I’ve been noticing their merchandise showing up in more and more products, but this is new. The birds will be featured in the National Police Agency’s new anti-bullying campaign.
However, netizens have criticized the move since the Angry Birds are… well, angry and destructive, which seems a bit counter to the campaign’s theme.
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Apologies for the absence of posting over the long weekend – my laptop was stolen, but thankfully, is now recovered. Top 10 in society. 1. A pastor and his wife in Boseong were arrested and accused of murdering their three young children. The parents, who ran some sort of very small fringe church, tied up
Original article in Korean is at this link. Despite an increasing number of phone calls by citizens concerned about the volume of trash in the Han River, it has been confirmed that what appears to be garbage is in fact clumps of ice. The Seoul city government announced on the 15th that a number of
School violence continues to be one of the dominant topics in the Korean media, as it has been since late December. Four stories landed on the front page of Naver’s ‘Society’ section today: 1. First, police found a cycle of violence being perpetrated at a high school in Daegu. Older students would beat up and
Looks like suicide was a big topic in Korean newsrooms today as three cases showed up. First, a middle school student in Gangnam killed himself by jumping out of his 7th-floor apartment. He left behind a note saying that he was under unbearable stress from the need to study so much all the time and
Original article in Korean is at this link. 35-year-old Mr. Jeong, a television producer, has been to the Seoul Central District Courts over 30 times since 1998. To get there he takes the bus from Seocho-dong. With his dream of being a movie director, he said that: “I think it helps me come up with
