From Brian in Jeollanamdo, this.

Wow. Just, wow.

Models who failed to maintain appropriate dignity as representatives of the products they represent should compensate for the damages caused to their advertiser, the top court ruled.

I was just watching the US Senate remarking on the anniversary of Tianaman Square. A few short observations:

• What's up with Uighur's all of a sudden? I heard of them for the first time four years ago, and then only in the context of Asian Area Studies. Now, every time I turn on the TV, it's Uighur, Uighur, Uighur.

"The next day my mother went out and bought one."

NY Times is running a story on South Korea's biggest tutoring website, Megastudy. I haven't heard of it before, but I have heard mention of online study systems while I was teaching both adults and children.

The article gives a very good overview. What is not really addressed, however, is the quality or pedagogy of the online courses. They appear to be run pretty much like typical hagwon courses.

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Finished moving the site to another server. If anything seems funny, let me know.

I'm going to be moving the site to an updated server. So if you see any wierd quirks or outages, I'm possibly movig something.

James Turnbull, blogger of THE GRAND NARRATIVE, wrote this very, very good article that everyone involved in Korean shit should read!

Read it! Now!

I don't really have anything else to add.

I'm really lagging on the 130 K movies/year project, I know. Since I'm going to be studying in Korea during the summer hopefully I'll be able to really pick up the pace.

So said Jackie Chan, while giving a lecture before a business council in China. He went on to support authoritarian Chinese rule and criticize Chinese youth and manufacturing.

"If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want." Seriously, isn't that the point? What's wrong with doing what you want?

I think Mr. Chan is getting crochety in his old age.

"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not," Chan said. "I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic."