Interesting news and stories translated into English from Korea and the Korean-language internet.
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Board member of Korea's largest energy producer, POSCO Energy, had a Korean Air stewardess remake ramen for him 6 times before hitting her head with a magazine.25
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Korean netizen reactions to a news report about Chinese tourists intruding on the Ewha Womans University campus, taking photos, and local disturbing students.
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Faces of this year's Miss Korea candidates, notably different from the ones circulated on Reddit, appear on Korean portal Ilbe. Netizens are blaming Photoshop.
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Translated Korean netizen condemnation of gays and lesbians as disgusting perversion in reaction to the Yook Woo-dang literary award in honor of LGBT writing.
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Controversy erupts online as a female student is pictured kneeling on a roadside, ordered by a senior to do so. Netizens call it an abuse of the social hierarchy.
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A Seoul school teacher has been arrested after violently beating a student listening to earphones in class and then dropping his pants and masturbating publicly.
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As South Korean newspaper the Hankyoreh profiles the families of soldiers, the media wonder why the rest of the country seems so calm about the prospect of war.
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Conservative netizens are optimistically blaming North Korea for Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon, hoping that doing so will speed up an attack on the North
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Police in Gwangju stop a car sliding backwards with a child inside it. Netizens demand tighter regulations for acquiring a driver's licence.
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Korea netizens express mixed feelings toward the news of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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On the 9th of this month, North Korea issued a statement telling foreign expats living in Korea to consider evacuating. Netizen reactions have fallen between anger and mockery.
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Conservative netizens react to the recent string of crimes by the US soldiers in South Korea, seeing in a very favourable light rather than typical anti-US rhetoric.
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Media debate whether North Korea's need for cash or South Korean companies' business interests are more valuable in the Kaesong Industrial Complex.
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Netizens shed light on the much contested debate in modern day Korean society: When eating sweet and sour pork, do you 'dip' or 'pour' the sauce?
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South Korean customs have reported twice as many 'human flesh capsules' seized from incoming tourists and residents visiting from China and South East Asia.
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Netizens react to the latest development in a series of increasingly bellicose rhetoric from Pyongyang with a mixture of apathetic disbelief and genuine concern.
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A North Korean defector who had turned to working as a prostitute to earn money is found dead in a South Korean motel after being killed in by an enraged client.