Classified ad: K-blogosphere seeks new primary Korea news source. Looking for simple but helpful layout, relevant commentary, and no scapegoating, muckraking or racist tripe.
CS Lee, the main editor of The Korea Times, and his lackey, Kang Shin-who, are once again using outright fictions to try and stir up trouble for Native English Teachers.
Popular Gusts reports, and includes where and who to call and complain. And complain we should. When Korea Times claims to be a news source, brags about its online success, and all they’re doing is dishing out yellow journalism and tabloid muckracking, we ought to be mad as hell.
To Korea Herald, English Chosun Digital, and especially Joongang Daily (hell, even you, Hani): hey guys. I’m looking for a new number one to replace The Times, which has been offending and re-offending and annoying me more and more for about two years now… we are waiting for one of you to come up with a layout as easy to navigate as The Times. Come up with a consistently updated events page and seriously, I’ll never look back!
02/11/2009 at 10:40 pm Permalink
I’ve enjoyed the Korean Herald’s reportage recently. They seem to have far better writers than the Times, whom I avoid even reading, except for when I forget Kang’s e-mail address and need to send him some more hate mail.
03/11/2009 at 8:03 am Permalink
The advantage the Times has always had over the others was that it had a lot more news stories. That’s why, even though I can’t stand what that paper’s become, I still link to it once in a while, simply b/c nobody else has written up the stories in English. Likewise their Learning Korean page is pretty good, and I used the bilingual “Dear Abby” columns in class sometimes.
The Herald was always at a disadvantage because its webpage was so atrocious, though that’s improved. I don’t think it has as much content as the Times, though . . . but I guess it’s easier when you can just make stuf up.
The Joongang Ilbo always has great features, but their homepage takes a little doing to figure out. They’re also still figuring out how to hit “enter” between paragraphs. The Chosun Ilbo articles are occassionally intereesting—news of the weird style—and they always have plenty of pictures of white people doing stuff, but it’s quite small. Same with the Dong-a Ilbo, the second-most disappointing English-language news source besides Hankyoreh.
I’d also add KBS to your list. Not as big as the other sources, but has some good stuff there, including things not covered elsewhere.
http://english.kbs.co.kr/News/index.html
03/11/2009 at 5:07 pm Permalink
FYI Firefox thinks you’re an attack site.
03/11/2009 at 9:18 pm Permalink
I got the same message at school using IE (though it works no problem at home).
26/11/2009 at 1:14 pm Permalink
I’m not sure why I bother giving interviews to the Times. Each time Kang calls me I hope he has some facts at his command, and instead I find he’s baiting me with polemics for quotes he will print out of context. I spend more time correcting the question than giving an answer.