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Korea's chuseok

Chuseouk

 

Chuseok is korea's big holiday. Chuseouk means the half month of August(lunar calendar) In these days, Korean people gather in the houses of their relatives and eat many delicious foods and have a good time.

 

I would like to introduce typical chuseouk foods

 

                                        1. Song pyeon, Song pyeon is a kind of rice cakes.

    

2. Toran soup(taro soup)

 

2. Jeon(pan cake), Korean jeon is very light and nuturitious

 

3.Well-oiled vegetables, Generally it is said that  vegetables are very nuturitious and light but oiled vegetables have high-calorie.

 

4. Nureum juk or Hwayang juk (a kind of egg-coated shish kebab )

 

5. Japchae(mixed dish of boiled bean threads)

 

6. Yack gwa(cookies made with flour, sesame oil, honey, rice wine, cinnamon and ginger juice )

 

7. Yugwa(oil-and-honey pastry )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

British Girl Group Release Korean-Version of Hit Song

A popular British girl group that has never visited the country released a Korean-language version of their hit song "Wings" on Monday. None of the girls speak the language.

Little Mix, winner of last year's "X Factor," a popular TV audition show in Britain, jumped to fame with the single when it topped the U.K. singles chart last year.
The four girls now hope for more success with the new Korean version, which they sang entirely in Korean except for the central refrain.

The project started when the band saw a video clip of a contestant singing "Wings" on "K-pop Star," an audition show on SBS TV, in June. They were greatly impressed and decided to experiment with a foreign-language release.

North Korea Instagram Videos Prove Hermit Kingdom Is Just As Depressing As You Thought

If the North Korean propaganda machine is to be believed, the Hermit Kingdom is a rare oasis of beauty, Pyongyang a bustling metropolis, the North Korean people a bundle of energy and happiness and its leaders a source of strength and compassion.

These Instagram videos, however, uploaded by AP photojournalist David Guttenfelder, show anything but a cheery nation. From a dark Pyongyang skyline to desolate highways, the Hermit Kingdom appears as depressing as most always imagined it.

Guttenfelder has made several trips to North Korea since the Associated Press opened a bureau there. In December, the photographer described his experiences in a post for the AP: "My window on North Korea is sometimes, quite literally, a window – of a hotel room, the backseat of a car, a train. Fleeting moments of daily life present themselves suddenly, and they are opportunities to show a side of the country that is entirely at odds with the official portrait of marching troops and tightly coordinated pomp that the Pyongyang leadership presents to the world."

1. BLACK OUT
Despite DPRK accounts portraying Pyongyang as a cosmopolitan wonder, almost all the lights turn off at night.

2. THE ROAD AHEAD
The path between a world capital and a busy industrial complex... empty.

3. PYONGYANG PROPAGANDA
When state propaganda is a fact of life. 

4. MILITARY LUNCH
Demonstrations of the military's might are never far away.

5. RAINY BORDER
A sparsely populated dividing line separates two worlds, North and South Korea.

6. RURAL EMPTINESS
Perhaps this country landscape best captures the reality of life in the isolated nation --quiet, desolate and foreign.

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North Korea Instagram Videos Prove Hermit Kingdom Is Just As Depressing As You Thought

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Fight for Justice

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The ugly truth about North Korea’s ‘mass games’

The grandeur of North Korea’s annual Arirang or “mass games” celebration really is something to behold. Tens of thousands of performers dance and march with smiling precision across the world’s largest stadium stage, under fireworks and light shows, as thousands more, many of them children, flash placards with a level of coordination that seems flatly impossible. It’s little wonder that every July, when North Korea holds the mass games to mark the anniversary of the Korean War, international media outlets take a rare trip to Pyongyang, and much of the world becomes transfixed.
But there is more to the mass games than meets the eye. For all the flash and splendor, the event is in many ways built on — and could even be said to perpetuate — the very worst of the hermit kingdom, from the dangerous militarism to the human rights abuses to the race-based ultra-nationalist ideology underpinning it all. This may be one of the most amazing shows on Earth, but it’s also an extension of some of its greatest cruelty.
The mass games are a spectacle of truly amazing performances, but, according to reports from defectors, it’s also the result of mistreatment and coercion, including of the children who participate in large numbers. It’s true that the citizen-participants do, by all indication, enter the event seeing it as a high honor and privilege. According to compilations of defector testimonies, though, participants are often given little food or even water and, to instill discipline, can be restricted in how often they may visit the bathroom. Reports are worryingly common about child participants developing cystitis or other urinary tract ailments as a result.

While it might be easy to dismiss these anecdotal reports — and, after all, don’t children participate in Western ceremonies all the time? — they are broadly consistent with descriptions of the practices as abusively coercive. Performers who fail or flinch can expect a pin-prick where they’ve faltered or a whack with a stick.

Article Source : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/31/behind-the-spectacle-the-ugly-truth-about-north-koreas-mass-games/

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What Simpson says..

Kim Hyun-joong highlights Korean culture in ‘Unbreakable’

In the advent of the release of his third EP album, hallyu star Kim Hyun-joong not only unveiled a new look, but also introduced a new approach of infusing Korean traditional culture with his latest music video, “Unbreakable.”

Kim, who became an international sensation thanks to his role in the smash hit Korean drama “Boy Over Flowers,” as well as being the leader of the popular K-pop idol group SS501, released his comeback album “Round 3” on July 22 after nearly two years.

Widely known for his “pretty boy” image, the star caused quite a stir with his new tough guy look, sporting various Asian culture-inspired tattoo designs including a large tattoo on his chest of a traditional dragon head goblin pattern ― a mythical creature which appears in many Korean folktales.

Kim Hyun-joong unveils a new look for his third mini-album release, “Round 3.” (KEYEAST)

“I thought about the meaning of genuine K-pop,” said Kim at a press conference last week. “I think I can have a lot of influence on hallyu and this time around I wanted to try to harness the image of Korean beauty through my music.”

After the tremendous success of the 2009 KBS drama “Boys Over Flowers,” Kim became widely known as the poster boy of hallyu for his pretty face. However, the 27-year-old singer-turned-actor stated that he is happy with his new look and simply wanted to pursue something new in promoting the true beauty of Korean culture and art through his music video “Unbreakable.”

As opposed to the other singles off his new EP, Kim claims that “Unbreakable” stands out in that he considers it more of a “visual song,” while the other tracks were just made for listening.

Promotional image for Kim Hyun-joong’s newest music video “Unbreakable.” (KEYEAST)

The music video to the album’s early release dance hip-hop single, also featuring Korean-American hip-hop idol Jay Park, encompasses a heavy mix of various traditional Korean cultural aspects including b-boy versions of sangmo ― a “long string hat” dance that features hats with a long ribbon attached to them that dancers spin around by moving their heads to make aerial patterns ― and martial arts. The video also includes depictions of people wearing tal, or traditional Korean dance masks, as well as playing Korean drums.

“The concept behind this album is simply Korean,” he said. “I did lot of research about Korean goblin patterns as well as traditional colors. The point of the music video is the fusion of the past and the present.”

By Julie Jackson (juliejackson@heraldcorp.com)



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Demi Lovato - Made in the USA (Official Video)

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Korea should be compared to NK's new attack

North Korea has issued it's first combat readiness and raised threat level against South Korea. North Korea also conducts cyber attack on Korean conservative media's homepage continuously. Korea has to prepare solution about NK's cyber attack and enhance their cyber capability to guard their critical network systems of social infrastructures from NK asap.

I think i fall in love

I've dated with someone for 110 days from the day we first met. My love about A is getting bigger. Sometimes we fight but we get along well soon. My friends always say that A is small and looks ugly sometimes. But i don't care about A's  appearance i believe A is good person and has warm heart.

Vayne, Kim jong un

Crazy pigs

Japanese rock band kills comfort women twice

A group of South Korean women forced into wartime sexual slavery by Japan filed a defamation suit Monday against a little-known, far-right Japanese rock band for calling them prostitutes. An album containing a song with the allegedly defamatory lyrics by the band "Scramble" was mailed to a shelter caring for so-called "comfort women" in Korea last week. The song, with an accompanying video posted on YouTube in January, is titled "Slashing Koreans" and contains inflammatory lyrics, exhorting violence against "the elderly prostitutes."
Historians say about 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other countries were drafted to work in Japanese army brothels in Asia. This is inhumane to subject the women, who had already suffered so much in their lives, to such hatred. These are the types of acts that could damage bilateral relations between the neighboring countries.The Japanese band released the song last week and sent a CD with it to a shelter in Korea for former sex slaves along with a copy of the lyrics translated into Korean.

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