Korean Underground Girl Groups

IDOL

IDOL – a BBC World News documentary follows k-pop girl group 9 Muses for a year.

Advantage Pyongyang

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The world’s most and least racially tolerant countries

South Korea, not very tolerant, is an outlier . Although the country is rich, well-educated, peaceful and ethnically homogenous – all trends that appear to coincide with racial tolerance – more than one in three South Koreans said they do not want a neighbor of a different race. This may have to do with Korea’s particular view of its own racial-national identity as unique – studied by scholars such as B.R. Myers – and with the influx of Read More...

Yeoido

Photographs of South Korea by Martin Stavars

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Apollo 18

A paradise for white good-for-nothings

The Choco Pie Myth: Busted

Comfort Women

Osaka’s mayor, who is, it would seem, a piece of shit, declared last week that ‘ comfort women ‘ — who were forced to serve as prostitutes for Japan’s imperial army during WWII — were a necessary part of the nation’s war effort. This is a one-hour documentary on the comfort women from Korean’s English-language Arirang TV (which is generally terrible, but sometimes rises above the waterline). It starts in Korea, and moves on to meet victims Read More...