Here is a good safety tip for those who plan to conduct a exorcism any time soon, make sure the person you plan to exorcise has the ability to breathe:
Picture of the hotel where the victim was found via the BBC.
A 41-year-old Korean woman was found dead in a guest room of a hotel in Frankfurt last week, the victim of a supposed exorcism performed by her own family members.
German prosecutors said on Thursday five Koreans, including the dead woman’s teenage son, were arrested at the scene for suspected murder.
Police found the woman’s body tied to a bed in a guest room at the Frankfurt Hotel InterContinental on Dec. 5.
She had been beaten repeatedly on her chest and stomach over a two-hour period and finally suffocated to death, according to prosecutors.
The accused were mostly relatives of the victim. They included her 15-year-old son, a 44-year-old relative and her 21-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter, and an unrelated boy aged 15.
The family members had allegedly been trying to drive a demon from the woman, believing her to be possessed.
Her mouth had been gagged with a towel to stifle screams and a cloth-covered coat hanger was pushed down her throat.
The woman died from suffocation as a result of massive chest compression, as well as trauma to her neck, according to prosecutors. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
I own a Roomba and I love what it does maintaining the cleanliness of the floors. However, don’t blame the robot vacuum cleaner when when you are stupid enough to do this:
Not the first time modern technology has clashed with age-old traditions, perhaps, but a South Korean woman was lucky to escape relatively unscathed after her household gadget tried to devour her mane.
Mrs. Ryu set her automatic robotic vacuum cleaner to diligently do its job last week, but was rudely awoken when the machine mistook her hair for some filth left laying around on the floor.
Ryu, 52, from Changwon City, southeast of Seoul, made the mistake of laying down for a nap on the floor – common practice in many parts of Asia – while simultaneously employing the help of her vacuu-bot.
Then the basketball-sized machine came across the ends of Ryu’s hair, it quickly started diligently sucking it up. [CBS News]
You can read more at the link, but I don’t know what is sillier, the fact her hair got caught in the vacuum or she had to call emergency services to get her hair out of it.
A small photo of Adolf Hitler adorns the entrance to the Fifth Reich, an upscale watering hole in Seoul’s Shinchon university district. A larger picture of the Fuhrer hangs across from the bar, where waiters and waitresses with swastika arm badges mix drinks that have names like “Adolf Hitler”and “Dead.” Young people chat at booths surrounded by statues of golden eagles, romanesque columns and large glass display cases of SS insignia. Nazi pins and Iron Crosses are on sale beside the cash register. It almost looks like a quiet shrine to the man who sent 6 million Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust. But this isn’t a neo-Nazi hangout. Some of the patrons aren’t even quite sure who Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were. Others, like regular patron Chung Jae Kyung, 22, are aware of the evil the Nazis did but not especially moved by it. “I don’t hate them, I don’t like them,” says Chung, a neatly dressed English-lit student with an easy smile. “But at least they dressed well.”
You always hear about how great the Israeli intelligence agencies are, so how the heck does the Israeli embassy not know about Nazi bars in Korea especially when they are featured in TIME magazine? These bars are literally all over Korea.
While were on the topic of anti-semitism in South Korea, I wish the AP would have asked the Israeli envoy what he thought about this. I’m sure these pictures would raise some eyebrows at the Israeli embassy as well.
UPDATE: The Marmot has even more about these banners.
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These photos on EFL Geek just goes to show how bad xenophobia in Korea can be:
Apparently these racist banners have to do with farmers being pushed off their land due to a massive development happening on Yong-yu and Moo-eui islands. Yong-yu and Moo-eui islands are now connected to the new Incheon International Airport by a land bridge and are being quickly developed with hotels and businesses that cater to the airport. This development in question is being spearheaded by a German company called Kempinski.
I have to assume that “Jewish white bastard” in question Jack Rosen is probably the Kempinski man in charge of the development. The “May Anh” on the third banner is actually Mayor Ahn of Incheon who is one of the “traitors working for rich white bastards”. What I find interesting about this is that when the Korean government made farmers relocate to expand Camp Humphreys, massive protests and violent confrontations instigated by NGOs ensued. Big business comes and forcibly relocates farmers off of two whole islands and the NGOs could care less. Just imagine if it was a USFK base being put on these islands what the reaction would be? Where’s the priest when you need him?
Anyway if you are going to the airport any time soon and you are a “white bastard” especially a “Jewish white bastard” you might want to avoid the Yong-yu and Moo-eui areas.
The Chung family has sold their second dry cleaning business in the aftermath of the $54 million dollar pants lawsuit:
The owners of the dry cleaning shop made famous after they were sued for millions because of a lost pair of pants said Wednesday they have sold a second of their three stores.
The Chung family said they sold the shop involved in the dispute because of revenue loss and the emotional toll from the lawsuit.
In June, the family successfully defended a suit filed by Roy Pearson, a family court judge who sued the cleaners for $54 million in damages for a pair of missing pants.
While the legal fees were covered by fund-raisers, the Chungs have lost business because of the lawsuit and because Pearson posted flyers critical of the cleaners around the neighborhood, according to the Chungs’ lawyer.
At one point, Soo and Jin Chung owned three stores as a part of their dry cleaning chain, but they said in a statement issued Wednesday they were forced to sell two of the stores because of financial losses stemming from the infamous lawsuit. The first store was sold last year.
"This is a truly tragic example of how devastating frivolous litigation can be to the American people and to small businesses," the family’s lawyer, Christopher Manning, said in the statement. "This family has poured its heart and soul into their dry cleaning stores only to have their dreams crushed by Roy Pearson’s lawsuit."
Considering they lost business despite the publicity they received from the lawsuit makes me wonder if there is any racial undertones to the fact they lost business. Maybe someone reading this familar with where the Chung’s business locations in the D.C. area can comment on that. You can read more over at the Marmot’s Hole.
Seriously I don’t know who is worse, the Korean protesters who put the handicapped guy in the wheelchair in the middle of the protest or the cops that beat him down, arrested him, and took him to jail:
I don’t understand Korean all that well so native speakers feel free to make any corrections, but what I make from this is that the protesters are protesting outside a government education office demanding better treatment of handicapped students in Korea. Things turned ugly when the protesters demanded that the handicapped guy they had with them be allowed into the government building to use the toilet. The police would not allow the handicapped person into the building to use the toilet and as you saw in the video all hell breaks loose.
I came across the following advertisement today while viewing a site that had Google Ads:
The ad link led to http://eastsea.koreanblog.com, which appears to be a small free blog set up by someone. There is only one post on the blog, parroting the usual ultranationalist Korean argument against the international usage of the name “Sea of Japan.”
This guys blog is low budget and cheesy. You would think that if you are willing to put up the money to buy a Google Ad you would at least put a half way decent webpage together. Additionally the last time the webpage was updated was in 2004. Can this issue get any more stupid?
A Korean broke into a bank in Hamburg, Germany and held hostages for three hours before he was arrested by German special police on July 28, according to the internet edition of a German daily paper, Build.
The Korean, identified only as K, entered the Sparkasse bank in Alsdorf, Hamburg at 7:50 a.m. and confronted police, taking two female hostages, before he was arrested by police MEK (Mobiles Einsatzkommando), the newspaper said. The hostages were released right before the police began rescue operations.
What nothing about “running amok” in the article? Is that terminology only for taxi cab related incidents and not bank robberies?
