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Throughout the soccer World Cup in 2002, joint staged on this peninsula, large banners followed the national team on their adventure towards the semi finals. The banners spelt this country as COREA, and not KOREA. Certain t-shirts sold for the recent edition of the World Cup in South Africa had messages like “Again COREA…2002″ on them, not to [ READ MORE ]
The spectacular Korean provincial and city election campaign capped off last Wednesday amid the highest voter turnout in 15 years. The results of the elections represented a blow to the ruling party of Korean President Lee Myung-bak. Fifty-four percent of Koreans voted this time. It represents a minimal increase from the last elections in 2006, where [ READ MORE ]
It’s a beautiful day here in Gwangju, and an easy enough one to get out of bed and vote. Many Koreans will at least have their mornings off to head to their local polling station. Before casting their ballot, Koreans have some heavy issues to mull over. Should the city build a new stadium to host [ READ MORE ]
Korean civic elections are on Wednesday, and, given what I’ve seen so far, I didn’t think the campaign could get any more spectacular. But today in front of the grocery store two nine-foot tall clowns on stilts danced as they implored passing vehicles to vote for candidate number 8. This all occurred to the kindergarten [ READ MORE ]