• I had no idea Yeomni-dong (not far from Shinchon in Seoul) was such a crime-ridden area. I used to live close to there. (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  • Korea’s organized crime targeting … universities? (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  • A summary of the weekend’s hip hop “wars” in Korea (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  • 3,000 Koreans living in Mongolia these days as Mongolian economy and Korean investment there keeps climbing (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  • It’s always nice reading sensible thoughts on the Korea-Japan relationship (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  • The second KCON (or K-pop convention) was held in Los Angeles last weekend (LA Times)
  • I always hate to see schools restricting access to books. In Japan, 39 schools have restricted access to Barefoot Gen, a famous graphic novel about surviving the Hiroshima nuclear bomb (Japan Times and here). The classic comic book just turned 40 in June (Japan Times).