Some Korean news I’m thinking about:
- Kim Jong Il is not so busy with the Euna Lee and Laura Ling controversy that he doesn’t have time to, uh, give notes to the performers of Eugene Onegin.
- Also, North Korea has a cafepress store. This may be complicated by the recently tightened UN Sanctions.
- I am spending a lot of time thinking about the Tomb of Dangun.
- Sngmoo Lee is releasing his film with Jang Dong-Kun and Kate Bosworth, The Warrior’s Way, and while I feel like it borrows too much from The Lone Wolf and Cub, I’m warming up to it. (Via AngryAsianMan)
- The Long Road Home is a newly published account of a man who began as a lieutenant colonel in the North Korean Army, and then, after accusations of treason, ended up in Camp No. 14, one of North Korea’s most terrifying gulags. Where he survived for 6 years, working 2400 feet underground, before escaping to the United States.
2 Comments
June 26, 2009 at 5:22 am
I’m always obsessing about Dangun. Having grown up with stories of talking animals and animal spirits…it pervades my entire conscious.
June 27, 2009 at 12:12 am
I never do it. I should try it. I’ve never written a talking animal!