Bodypainting Festival in Daegu Stadium
As usual with such events the Chosun Ilbo is all over it, with photo galleries here, here and here.
Seoul.com: “We Are Not Anti-Foreigner”
After I translated their press release of August 18, which I and others criticized for calling certain foreigners “poison mushrooms” and “viruses”, being factually inaccurate in some ways, and not mentioning some solutions to the problem, Seoul.com responded through a new press release, this time in English. I don’t have too much to say about it other than that the conciliatory tone is nice, except that Korea Beat is not a “club for foreigners”, and only one commenter mocked Seoul.com’s English — hey, my Korean writing ability is not that good, you know. Key paragraphs:
Joseon-Korean Faces Uncertain Future
Due to ever-growing trade between China and Korea - as well as closer political ties, the distinctive Joseon form of Korean,
largely spoken by China’s ethnic-Korean community and North Koreans, is
under threat from calls for a standardization of Korean.
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