Hyon-Joo’s Everyday Life

Korea's "Internet economic president", or the doomsayer Minerva got arrested in Jan. 10, 2009. Puzzled Korean Internet users are trying to figure out why. Was it because Minerva revealed national secrets that KOSPI would go down to 500 and won-dollar exchange rate would soar soon, I mean, obviously? Was it because Korean president Lee Myung-bak was afraid that Minerva was more popular than he was? So was it because his pride got seriously damaged and he wanted to get a revenge on him? Or was it because President Lee Myung-bak wanted Minerva to give his dump economic strategists some crash course trainings? Was it ...

S. Korea is one of the few non-Muslim countries where an extramarital affair makes a criminal offense. Under the adultery law, the convicted can be sent to jail up to two years. For the last two decades, there have been a few challenges to overturn the law, but the country's constitutional judges upheld it every time. This issue became huge again in 2008 when a well-known actress Ok So-ri was indicted on charge of adultery. Short history of Korean Adultery Law There were various kinds of adultery laws throughout many Korean dynasties as in most countries . The first modern-age law was ...

Sansung(산성, 山城) in Korean means a mountain fortress wall. A good example is the Great Wall in China. Obviously, the main purpose of sansung is to prevent enemies from invading one's territory. Many great kings and leaders of old Korean dynasties built sansung throughout history. So this Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, deeply worried about safety, decided to build some sansung himself. When? On June 10, 2008. Koreans wanted to hold candlelight protests against US beef imports as well as commemorate the revolutionary gathering for democracy of June 10, 1987. Where? In the main streets of Seoul such as Sejong-ro ...

So Koreans can watch a popular talk show on their cell phone in a moving bus. How cool is that? This fast-developing technology cannot always have benefits, but at least it's moving forward in the sense that it makes our lives more convenient. What direction does the Korean government heading into then? Stupidly and sadly, it looks like it's heading toward one of its gloomy dictatorship eras such as the president Park' or Jeon's governments where they created conspiracy to brainwash, torture and kill people. Why do I think like this? There have been quite a lot of incidents last year that ...