This is great news for those of us who binge drink….
To test the health benefits of oxygenation, the researchers gave subjects 19.5 percent alcohol uncarbonated drinks and 19.5 percent alcohol oxygenated drinks at doses of 240 ml and 360 ml (about as much alcohol as would be in 2.5 and 4 80-proof shots, respectively). [...]
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Koreans Develop Speedy Liquor
Help an Expat: Kenneth Hash
I first heard about Kenneth Hash by way of ATEK’s Publicity guy, Dann Gaymer, and John Wurth, the Guyonggido Council Chair. I got in touch with John, and he sent me this article he’d written, and I’m passing it on to you.
You may know that ATEK can’t legally fund-raise above a certain limit; however, [...]
Survey Much?
Over the last couple of weeks I have been running a survey in an attempt to see what’s going on in the Foreigner community here in Seoul.
It is a very small sample – though not restricted to E2 Visa holders it equates to about 1% of the 20000 Language teachers in Korea. Neither should it [...]
Which Foods Help Battle H1N1 Flu?
A great many, if the Chosun Bimbo Ilbo is to be believed.
The paper notes that the government continues to encourage increased personal hygiene practices. (Who woulda thought you’d need to tell people to wash their hands? But then 1 minute in a mens room in Korea and the number of people who leave without washing their hands [...]
“Seoul to Vaccinate 10 Mil. Against Influenza A”
So says the Korea Times:
South Korea plans to vaccinate 10 million people against influenza A by the end of this year to stem the rapid spread of the disease that has so far claimed three lives in the country.
Health and Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee said of the 13.3 million people, including young children and pregnant [...]
Kissing rooms invented after crackdown
Not that I’m surprised by this recent development (from Yonhap):
As police crackdowns on brothels in traditional red light zones have been intensifying after the special anti-prostitution law was passed in 2004, desperate owners have found creative ways to fly below the police radar. Brothel owners have swiftly changed the faces of their businesses, which [...]
Wagner rips Anti-English Spectrum a New One
Benjamin Wagner, of Kyunghee University, has this article in The Korea Herald today. He focuses on a quotation by Lee Eun-eung, the venomous representative of Anti-English Spectrum, who has been spreading the word that “At an AIDS testing center for foreigners, 80 percent of those requesting tests were foreign English teachers” — a phrase [...]
Korean Mental Health Care Tantamount to Persecution? Canadian Refugee Board Says Yes
Hat tip to BiJnD
cross-posted at Roboseyo
Holy crap. This is one of the stories so embarrassing that Korean Tourism should suspend operations and send all its people over to work in Korean mental health programs to improve them, before they continue promoting Korea in conventional ways.
Canada just awarded refugee status to a paranoid-schizophrenic Korean woman, [...]
Must-Read on Women’s Safety in Korea
Hwarangi, of ALTWATSAC (pronounced: alt-WATT-sack) or A Long Time Ago When a Tiger Smoked A Cigarette, has taken a break from writing her usual style of uproariously funny blog posts, to respond to a question I posed (albeit clumsily) in a previous post asking for information on Women’s Rape Support in Korea.
Seeing as I’m a [...]
Matt Robinson and Mike McStay
Matt Robinson’s friend’s class organized a bake sale, and made this video to promote it.
The good news is: there is 350 won remaining on the bill for Matt Robinson’s surgery. Unfortunately, there is another surgery to come, so don’t stop now, readers. Don’t stop now.
Mike McStay, another blogger from Daejeon, is also in a [...]
Update on Matt Robinson: Good, but not Out of the Woods Yet
From the “Help Matt Robinson” facebook page
Hey everyone, the surgery went okay. His legs were hurting a bit since some skin was taken off the outsides of them for the surgery.
Lydia has an actual message from Matt that will be posted very soon. It’s too big to fit on the wall…
Amazingly enough the bill has [...]
Care Package Dropoff at The Quarantine
Song: The Kids Are Alright, by The Who
So one of the Rate My Hagwon writers had the excellent idea of bringing care packages to the teachers in Quarantine. He did it yesterday, and two people came. He did it again today, and I went down there with Ben Wagner, making four people. [...]
