You can tell that President Trump loves taking shots the intellectual elites in the U.S. government:
The photo, released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (front, second from L) speaking to former NBA star Dennis Rodman (front, R) while watching a friendly basketball game between North Korean players and ex-NBA players in Pyongyang on Jan. 8, 2014.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday acknowledged that he had considered sending former Chicago Bulls basketball player Dennis Rodman to North Korea to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
“He really does like Dennis Rodman, I will tell you. It’s sort of great. I always said Dennis would be better than some of these staffs that they used to send over to get to know him (Kim),” Trump said in an interview with Fox Sports Radio.
The sudden revelation came after the show’s host asked if Trump and Kim had ever talked about basketball.
Trump and Kim held three meeting between June 2018 and June 2019.
“He really did like Dennis Rodman. And they said we should maybe use him instead of somebody that graduated No. 1 at Harvard. Maybe we should use that and so I thought about that,” said Trump.
Apparently some woman in Pyeongtaek got angry at the owner of a MiniStop in Pyeongtaek for not submitting her daughter’s picture for some art contest MiniStop was holding. You can see the shop’s owner at the end of the video try to fight the woman after she is apprehended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHlKinfDclo
Just imagine how this situation would have ended if she would had tried to smash her car into a police car in the United States. The police in Pyeongtaek showed a lot of restraint by not escalating the situation. Also talk about a great commercial for the Hyundai Genesis, that car appears to be indestructible inside that MiniStop.
We were honored to host the Minister of Unification today in the #JointSecurityArea. His visit highlights #Panmunjeom's role as a place for diplomacy & dialogue, rooted in UNC's Armistice-related activities that have underpinned security & stability on the Korean Peninsula…1/ pic.twitter.com/5mCQ40oeft
Buddha statue found on Mount Bukhan This photo, released by the office of Mount Bukhan National Park on Sept. 14, 2020, shows the head of a Buddha stone statue, with its body and head separated, believed to be from the early years of the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392). The office found the statue in the valley of Insu Peak on the mountain in Goyang near Seoul on Sept. 12, which it excavated after gaining permission from the Cultural Heritage Administration. (Yonhap)
This is an interesting idea for an affordable single family home in Seoul:
Thirty three square meters of land doesn’t seem big enough to build a house on. But architect and educator Choi Min-wook designed a five-story residential building for himself, his wife and their cat on a tiny plot of land in the heart of Seoul.
The couple settled there in March last year.
This year, their house won the best architecture award conferred by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. (…….)
Each of the house’s five floors were conceptualized to have a unique purpose: The first floor for parking, the second floor for reading, the third floor for cooking and dining, the fourth floor for sleeping and the fifth for bathing.
The Korea Times has an article about two British expats in Seoul who have a very successful Youtube channel where they conduct short documentary like interviews of random Korean people:
His understanding of Korea and Korean culture is reflected in the roughly 150 videos uploaded to his YouTube channel. Teaming up with his business partner Joel Bennet, they explore Korea to shoot mukbang, have casual discussions about Korea-related topics and create short documentary-style videos. Those videos aim to show the real Korea, starring Bright’s neighbors and other ordinary people he meets. As of Thursday, “Dan and Joel” has some 272,000 subscribers.
You can read much more at the link, but I started browsing through their videos today. One of the videos I watched that was featured with the article was of them interviewing one of Korea’s ubiquitous cardboard collecting ladies. Definitely a tough life for the elderly people doing that job.
#MoonJaein also said "I hope the Chinese (CCP) dream is not just for China, but for Asia & all of humanity." Not only does Moon want South Korea to kowtow to CCP, but also the rest of the world.https://t.co/W1ZyeYqrIihttps://t.co/53LtL4DWSz
USFK honors S. Korea’s outgoing JCS chair Gen. Robert Abrams, commander of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), delivers a speech during a farewell ceremony for South Korea’s outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Park Han-ki (R) at the USFK Yongsan Garrison in Seoul on Sept. 17, 2020. The USFK arranged the event to mark Park’s contribution to cementing the alliance between the two nations. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
Companies pay these parcel workers by each delivery they complete and not by the hour which is the issue at the center of this strike. Likely they are paid this way to encourage quick completion of each delivery to make more money. Pay by the hour would actually encourage working slower to accumulate more hours to be paid:
The undated file photo shows a delivery worker moving parcels. (Yonhap)
Some 4,000 parcel delivery workers will refuse to sort parcels in protest of heavy workloads ahead of the Chuseok holiday, a civic advocacy group said Thursday.
The civic task force working for the rights of delivery workers and associated with the progressive Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) said that the parcel delivery workers will stop sorting out parcels starting from Monday if their demand for additional manpower goes unmet.
“Sorting parcels is the primary reason for their long working hours,” the group said during a press conference at the KCTU headquarters in Seoul. “Half of their working hours of 13-16 hours a day focus only on sorting parcels with no additional pay.” (…….)
The group argued that the workers are paid per delivery and that their time-consuming sorting job goes unpaid.
