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I actually binge watched this show last weekend. I actually liked it better than Squid Game though like Squid Game it is violent and I do not recommend it for kids. The plot is a bit different about woman who infiltrates a police department to spy for a crime boss in an effort to avenge the murder of her dad. However, if you watch enough Korean dramas the plot eventually becomes pretty predictable, but the acting and scenes in this drama are really well done:
Netflix recently found monster success with the Korean-language series “Squid Game,” its biggest series of all time. Now, another South Korean show is surging in popularity on the platform.
“My Name,” a South Korean crime thriller that debuted on Friday, was the seventh most popular title on Netflix in the US on Tuesday, according to the company’s own daily lists of its biggest movies and TV shows that it ranks based on the number of accounts that watched at least two minutes during the previous 24 hours.
“Squid Game” was No. 2 on Tuesday, topped only by “You,” the third season of which also premiered on Friday. “Squid Game” debuted on September 17.
Netflix describes “My Name” like this: “Following her father’s murder, a revenge-driven woman puts her trust in a powerful crime boss – and enters the police force under his direction.”
Yahoo News
You can read more at the link.
Rocket failures during testing is part of perfecting space technology. NASA, SpaceX, etc. have all had rocket failures. I am sure the ROK scientists will learn from this and correct the identified issues with the third stage of the rocket that failed to reach 7.5 km per second which is the orbital velocity needed to put a satellite into orbit:
South Korea failed to put a dummy satellite into orbit with its first homegrown space rocket Thursday, dealing a setback to the country’s decade-long project to join the elite global space club.
The KSLV-II rocket, also known as Nuri, flew to a target altitude of 700 kilometers but failed to place the 1.5-ton dummy satellite into orbit.
“The test-launch of Nuri-ho was completed. I am proud of it,” President Moon Jae-in said in a press briefing at the Naro Space Center in the country’s southern coastal village of Goheung. “Regrettably, we did not perfectly reach the goal, but we made a very creditable achievement in the first launch.”
The failure underscores the challenges of sending a satellite into orbit, a space launch vehicle technology that South Korea has been seeking to acquire for more than a decade for its space program.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but this rocket launch likely means the North Koreans are going to launch something in response in the near term. We saw that they recently launched an SLBM not long after the ROK tested theirs. I would not be surprised if North Korea attempts a space launch in the near term to try and show up the ROK.
This has been long suspected and would explain why the Kim regime murdered him in such a brutal way:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who was murdered in Malaysia in 2017, was linked to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), according to a report by South Korean broadcaster SBS, Tuesday.
Korea Times
SBS reported that it had confirmed from a number of former and current NIS officers that Kim Jong-nam had been providing information on top North Korean officials including Kim Jong-un for at least five to six years before he was killed.
You can read more at the link.
The Japan based sailor that killed two people after falling asleep at the wheel has received a three year sentence:
A U.S. naval officer charged in a car crash that killed two pedestrians broke down in tears as a Japanese judge found him guilty of negligent driving on Monday.
Lt. Ridge Hanneman Alkonis, 33, was sentenced to three years in Japanese prison during a hearing at Shizuoka District Court in Numazu, a punishment just short of the 4½-year-sentence requested by prosecutors. Alkonis’ defense attorneys, on the other hand, had asked for a suspended sentence, effectively a term of probation.
Alkonis was charged with negligent driving causing death and injury after his car crashed into pedestrians and parked vehicles at a soba restaurant parking lot in Fujinomiya on May 29. The city is in Shizuoka prefecture, about two hours from Yokosuka Naval Base, where he’s stationed as a weapons officer aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold.
Stars & Stripes
You can read more at the link, but ROK Heads may remember that Lt. Alkonis tried to claim that high-altitude mountain sickness from his visit to Mt. Fuji is what caused him to fall asleep. The judge did not buy that argument and I agree with him. It is probably more likely that Alkonis fell asleep because he was exhausted after getting up very early to hike up and down Mt. Fuji.
Regardless it is a tragic accident that should remind everyone that if you are drowsy you should not drive.
It looks like the KCTU has immunity to coronavirus prevention measures put in place across South Korea. The next time any organization wants to hold a large gathering I guess they can just call it a KCTU protest and they will be okay:
The protesters affiliated with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) poured onto the streets in downtown en masse around 1:30 p.m. and began marching toward Seodaemun Station, holding flags and banners calling for labor rights.
Some of them scuffled with police trying to prevent them from moving to the rally site.
Police mobilized about 12,000 personnel and set up fences and bus walls in central Seoul to prevent the rally.
The strike was held despite the government’s call for restraint amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unionized members called for guaranteeing workers’ rights and ensuring better working conditions, as they sought to bring labor issues to the forefront in the run-up to the 2022 presidential elections.You can read more at the link.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but the KCTU claims 27,000 protesters showed up.
