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ROK Drop Open Thread – November 29, 2015

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Tweet of the Day: Time to Bring Back “Hi Seoul”?

Tweet of the Day: Koreans Inherited Wealth

Picture of the Day: South Korea’s Baseball MVP

MVP of South Korean baseball

Eric Thames, a former major league player and now a first baseman of South Korea’s NC Dinos, smiles after winning the MVP award of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) on Nov. 24, 2015. Thames, 29, helped the Dinos to their second straight postseason and became the third foreign player to win the KBO’s top individual honor. (Yonhap)

Tweet of the Day: Opening Arguments in SCS Case

Picture of the Day: Replica of Forced Labor mine

Museum replicates coal mine of S. Korea's forced laborers

The photo, released on Nov. 24, 2015 by a soon-to-open local museum, shows a replicated coal mine on exhibit that was worked by South Koreans mobilized for labor by Japan during the colonial years. The museum, hosted by the southeastern port city of Busan, is South Korea’s first that chronicles the forced laborers. It will open on Dec. 10 to coincide with the World Human Rights Day. (Yonhap)

200 Korean University Professors Charged with Changing Book Covers and Claiming They Wrote the Book

The plagiarizers in Korea are not even trying very hard any more to hide their deception when they are just changing book covers:

Prosecutors said Tuesday they would charge 200 professors for copyright violations next month, suspecting them of changing the covers of existing books by other people and publishing them in their own names.

The Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office called in 200 professors from 50 universities for questioning over the past three months. As most of the accused, including well-known lecturers, admitted to the charges, they will be indicted next month, prosecutors said. [Korea Herald]

You can read the rest at the link.

Tweet of the Day: Thankful K-Dramas

https://twitter.com/dramafever/status/669213980506755072

Picture of the Day: Having Thanksgiving Dinner In North Korea

Korean War - 127-GK-234G-A5289 Thanksgiving dinner of 1st Signal Battalion

Chow line for Thanksgiving dinner of 1st SigBn at Hamhung, Korea.  [Morning Calm Weekly]

ROK Drop Thanksgiving Open Thread – November 26, 2015

I hope all the ROK Heads who celebrate Thanksgiving has a great holiday.  Out of all the holidays to celebrate Thanksgiving is my favorite.  What is more American than eating food all day with family and watching football?

Happy Thanksgiving!