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"Science is interesting; if you don't
agree, you can fuck off."
agree, you can fuck off."
Random article I spent all f-ing day translating. Original here.
X-posted at AMS K-blog.
Primary Chinese diplomat, "Deng Xiaoping is not in the North . . . Currency reform is rash."
I'm trying to stay in the habit of posting something, so here's more random martial arts and history stuff.
While reading through a Korean book on traditional martial arts, I ran across a brief description of a hwarang legend that I thought I would translate and post. Like all good legends, it's slightly fucked up.
3000 years of barbershop history!
It almost makes me wish I still had my ponytail. I would totally rock a Shilla hairstyle if I could!
Since its almost Christmas, I thought I'd skim my bookshelf and mention a few Korea-related books that I recommend.
HOW KOREANS TALK: A COLLECTION OF EXPRESSIONS
Sang-hun Choe, Christopher Torchia
Since I've been [supposed to be] looking into issues about Korea and colonial relationships, I pulled out my copy of POSTCOLONIALISM: AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION by Robert J. C. Young.
[Why do you say, "an history"? Why do you say, "a unicycle"? Shouldn't it be "a history" and "an unicycle"?]
[I'm the worst English teacher ever.]
I was really surprised to see that Korea was virtually left out. There are some passing references to Korean delegations at the Internationals. The only note of substance was the following:
