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Adoption: Securing the Rights of Mothers and Children
Women speak out from all sides of the issue: adoptees, natural mothers and adoptive mothers try to make sense of the legal, reproductive and human rights issues behind adoptions.
Korea: Clinton’s Visit to North Korea
Stories
January 28th, 2010
Korea: Translating The Tweets Of Novelist Lee Oisoo
Lee Oisoo is a Korean novelist and artist who has been described as "an eccentric, a genius and a lunatic". When he set up a Twitter account last year he quickly amassed thousands of followers. Now his tweets are being translated into English in order to reach a wider audience. But how did a Bahraini blogger get involved?
August 2nd, 2009
Korea: Anti-Mother Internet Cafe
July 25th, 2009
Korea: Why Did Korean Politicians Fight?
July 22nd, 2009
Bangladesh, South Korea: Bandhobi, Addressing Migrant Workers' Issues
Bangladeshi blogger Fahmidul Haque introduces us [bn] to a Korean Movie which features the love between a Bangladeshi migrant worker and a South Korean teenager girl and addresses migrant workers' issues.
Updates about South Korea
February 4th, 2010
Ask a Korean! explains the South Korea policy on dual citizenship.
January 29th, 2010
Ask a Korean! tries to answer the question on why Koreans like cute things.
January 26th, 2010
Mediact, South Korea's first public media center, will be dismantled in 1st of February under the Lee Myung Bak's government (more from interlocals). A petition has been launched to save the center.
January 19th, 2010
Ask a Korean! translates an article that explains how NGOs obtain information from North Korea via cell phone imported from China.
January 11th, 2010
Ask a Korea explains to the readers how the health care system in South Korea works.
December 24th, 2009
James Turnbull from the Grand Narratives wrote an interesting article about the changing fan's cultural in South Korea. Middle-aged people are more active in fan's clubs.
December 15th, 2009
Robert Koehler from The Marmot's Hole blogs about sexual service in South Korea that targets at Japanese male.
December 14th, 2009
The Metropolitician wrote an open letter to Steve Jobs addressing the situation that foreign residents could not register for I-phone because of local foreign resident policy.
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Korea: Translating The Tweets Of Novelist Lee Oiso...
- Ayesha,
It's the ex-marketer in me that asks the question. The tweets are fine in and of the...
- I'm not sure why it would make *more* sense to translate the tweets of an author who has alread...
- This is kind of cool, but wouldn't it have made more sense to do this for an author who IS tran...
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