Comments on: CS Lee and Kang Shin-who Stirring Up More Trouble

By: Greg Dolezal

Greg Dolezal — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:14:57 +0000

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.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:18:36 +0000

I got the same message at school using IE (though it works no problem at home).

By: Jaim

Jaim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:07:37 +0000

FYI Firefox thinks you’re an attack site.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:03:22 +0000

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

By: Korean Rum Diary

Korean Rum Diary — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:40:02 +0000

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.