Special Commandos Needed for Protesters in Yongsan Seoul Six people, including one policeman, were killed and 23 injured on Jan.20, 2009 after Seoul's special police commandos moved in to the top of the building to quell a strike against Yongsan re-development project. A shipping container carrying about 100 commandos was landed on the roof top of the building where the protesters built a 16 feet - about 5 meter - observation tower. About 40 minutes later, a fire broke out in the watch tower, soon engulfing the whole area. The protesters, who once were tenants of the building, opposed to ...

Underground Bunker During the Korean War, when North Korea occupied about 70 percent of South Korea, my late grandfather, who lived in a small city Kumi, had to hide himself in an underground bunker not to be caught. He stayed there for a while and was able to avoid being a bullet bait for the North Korean army. That's how I understand of an underground bunker. You hide yourself or your loved ones from enemies. Or a bunker can be a place where you make top secret strategies in urgent circumstances such as war-time as the name suggests. ...

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 ...

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 ...