Category Archives: Korea

Korean Armour - Chosun, Koryo, Silla, Three Kingdoms

22 August 2008 – 12:43

Just a reminder to those of you that have been using the pictures of Korean armour and weapons, that because I still can’t get to the Gallery in here, I have them placed in a web album in Picassa. You can find them at Thomo the Lost’s Picassa Album.

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, History, Wargaming | Comments (0)

Namdaemun Fire :-(

11 February 2008 – 22:08

There was the report this morning on CNN and other sources of a fire at Namdaemun (South Gate) in Seoul. This is one of my favourite historical places in Korea and a location most visitors pass at least one when they visit Seoul.
It seems as though the fire was the result of arson and the [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific | Comments (0)

Happy New Year

7 February 2008 – 0:01

To my Mongolian friends - I hope you have a happy Tsagaan Sar.
To  my Korean friends - “say hay boke mahn he pah du say oh”
To my Chinese friends - Happy New Year.

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, China, Mongolia | Comments (0)

Korea DMZ

26 June 2007 – 11:18

I ran across a website called Korea DMZ which is based around the De-Militarised Zone between North and South Korea. This means that there is a lot of information on the website concerning the Korean War, with sections covering the main combatants from the UN side (I never realised the Ethiopians and Colombians served in [...]

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Digital Chosun Ilbo English Edition Fails English

19 June 2007 – 15:43

I was looking at an article in the on-line Chosun Ilbo, one of the Korean newspapers, and I decided to email a link to the article to a friend (all right, I’ll ‘fess up, it was the one about the naked models promoting milk by having a naked yoghurt fight on stage).
Generally the English language [...]

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Korean Female Crew Capture Middle East

26 May 2007 – 1:11

I fly a lot. Recently I have been flying a lot more on Emirates than I have in the past (also on Etihad Airways as well). I was therefore amused to read in the Chosun Ilbo of Korea an article about Korean Female flight crew on Emirates Airlines. I was doubly amused reading this because [...]

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Bridges and Tunnels

14 May 2007 – 0:58

It was a few days ago that the Lost Nomad commented on discussions about linking Korea and Japan by tunnel. It just so happened that this was the day after the Arab News here ran a piece about a Causeway Linking Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Seems the causeway is a bigger and better link than [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Japan, Middle East, Saudi Arabia | Comments (0)

Korean Soldiers in WW2 German Army

7 May 2007 – 2:32

There was a book review recently in the Korea Times about a couple of authors who had published recently. The review was titled Masters Return With Bitter History and covered a couple of areas of Korean History.
What particularly interested me was a photo from World War II that served as an inspiration for Jo [...]

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Myth Debunking and the Truth

5 May 2007 – 0:01

Recently there was a piece that did the rounds about Japanese buying sheep whilst thinking they were poodles. As is right, this was found to be an “urban myth” picked up by the news services (including CNN - not sure about BBC as the cable was playing up in my hotel room).
This was even picked [...]

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Australian Visa Rules Abuse

26 April 2007 – 17:00

The Chosun Ilbo of Korea notes in an article about Prostitutes, Traffickers Abusing Australian Visa Rules that many Korean women are lured to Australia by unscrupulous Koreans on working holiday visas and that these women end up working in Korean Salons and in brothels in Australia for a year or two. Some women know the [...]

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