Has anyone seen this new Netflix series? Is it any good?:

Meet Lee Si-young, the badass South Korean actress from the hit Netflix series “Sweet Home.” The 38-year-old plays the role of retired firefighter Seo Yi-kyung, according to Forbes. Seo is also one of the residents of Green Home, an apartment building where humans turn into monsters.   “I am a retired firefighter in the series so I tend to protect people from danger,” the actress told Forbes. “When you have to confront monsters, it has to be me. Everyone encounters the monsters and so do I.”

Yahoo News

You can read more about the series at the link or by watching the trailer below:

This is just a prelude to probably what is coming up, a crisis manufactured by North Korea to test the incoming Biden administration:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the United States the “foremost principal enemy” of his country, threatening to continue advancing its nuclear capabilities, state media said Saturday.

Kim also said Washington’s policy against Pyongyang won’t change regardless of who is in the White House, adding that “key to establishing new relationship” between the two countries “lies in the U.S. withdrawal of its hostile policy towards” North Korea, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Kim made the remarks reporting to the eighth congress of the ruling Workers’ Party currently under way in Pyongyang, the North’s first reference to transition of power in Washington since Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president in November.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link.

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Just another example of how dangerous military training can be. Condolences to all the friends and family of SSG Wento:

A staff sergeant with the 2nd Infantry Division died Tuesday when his military vehicle overturned during training at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex outside Pocheon, South Korea, according to 2nd ID on Friday.

Staff Sgt. James Wento, 34, of Lynn, Mass., was a wheeled mechanic with the 2-2 Assault Helicopter Battalion, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade at Camp Humphreys.

Stars & Stripes

You can read more at the link.

It is cold outside right now in Korea:

South Korea posted the lowest temperatures of the season Friday, with many regions seeing record lows close to minus 20 C and continuing to receive heavy loads of snow.

In Seoul, the cold snap that began earlier this week pushed the temperature down to minus 18.6 C, the second-lowest since records began in 1980, after minus 19.2 C on Jan. 5, 1986, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration.

The central city of Daejeon posted minus 16.9 C, the southwestern city of Gwangju minus 12.7 C, southeastern Busan minus 11.4 C and the southern island of Jeju minus 1.1 C.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link.

So much for the Korean government wanting to supposedly improve relations with the Japanese:

South Korean victims of wartime sexual enslavement won their first legal victory Friday against the Japanese government in a landmark ruling.

The Seoul Central District Court ordered Tokyo to make financial reparations of 100 million won (US$91,300) each to 12 “comfort women” who were dragged away from their homes and forced to work in front-line military brothels for Japanese soldiers during World War II.

“Evidence, relevant materials and testimonies show that the victims suffered from extreme, unimaginable mental and physical pain due to the illegal acts by the accused. But no compensation has been made for their suffering” the court said in a verdict.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but the Japanese government says they are ignoring this ruling because all the comfort women issues were resolved by the agreement they signed with the ROK government in 2015. The Moon administration scrapped the agreement when they came to power.