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	<title>The Marmot's Hole</title>
	
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		<title>Outrage!</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/25/outrage-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Mail reports on the &#8220;outrage&#8221; that has followed a recent column in the JoongAng Daily that suggested the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were divine retribution for Japan&#8217;s misdeeds: The article suggested that Japan deserved both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki wartime atomic bombings in 1945 because of its lethal experiments on humans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Thread: the Late May Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/25/open-thread-the-late-may-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/25/open-thread-the-late-may-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a good weekend, folks. And thanks to all my cobloggers for keeping things going this last week or two.]]></description>
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		<title>Two items of relevance from the BBC</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/24/two-items-of-relevance-from-the-bbc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/24/two-items-of-relevance-from-the-bbc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 20:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yuna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=37069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China opens new cruise route to North Korea as North Korea clearly needs the money. There is something to be said for such a controlled tourism &#8211; at least nobody overstays their welcome, and generally tourists cannot misbehave. Kumgang looks pristine and beautiful in the video, I hope it is kept that way until the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Five-year-old Busan girl killed after suicide jumper lands on her following 11-story plunge</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/24/five-year-old-busan-girl-killed-after-suicide-jumper-lands-on-her-following-11-story-plunge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/24/five-year-old-busan-girl-killed-after-suicide-jumper-lands-on-her-following-11-story-plunge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby McGill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crazy shit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An incredibly sad story down here in Busan: On Wednesday, in the South Korean port city of Busan, a 38-year-old Korean man, identified only by his surname Jang, leaped from his 11th floor apartment and landed on his neighbor’s five-year-old daughter who happened to be walking outside with her father. Jang died immediately on impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Are in the Danger Zone</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/22/you-are-in-the-danger-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/22/you-are-in-the-danger-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R. Elgin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=37048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Employment and Labor has said it will improve its oversight over safety codes and penalties for violating safety procedures due to a recent run of industrial accidents at Samsung and Hyundai.  South Korea has experienced rapid changes in such a short period of time, since the industrialization movement in the mid-sixties and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>When the Japanese right get an idea in their heads…</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/22/when-the-japanese-right-get-an-idea-in-their-heads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/22/when-the-japanese-right-get-an-idea-in-their-heads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 03:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comfort women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=37045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not really sure what the Comfort Women have to do with Osaka city affairs, but mayor Toru Hashimoto really likes to talk about them. Or Tweet about them, as it were: &#8220;Japan was bad,&#8221; he told a party meeting on Monday, the Asahi Shimbun reported. &#8220;It is true that we used women to solve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India, Jordan pretty racist; so is Korea: survey</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/21/india-jordan-pretty-racist-so-is-korea-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/21/india-jordan-pretty-racist-so-is-korea-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, somebody had to post it. According to the World Values Survey, India and Jordan are pretty racist, while the English-speaking world and Latin America are relatively less racist. And then there&#8217;s Korea: South Korea, not very tolerant, is an outlier. Although the country is rich, well-educated, peaceful and ethnically homogenous – all trends that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>84</slash:comments>
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		<title>China on Okinawa: “Yeah, that’s ours, too”</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/19/china-on-okinawa-yeah-thats-ours-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/19/china-on-okinawa-yeah-thats-ours-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 02:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby McGill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=37015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The soft power, &#8220;peaceful rise&#8221; concept seems lost on the Middle Kingdom. The intimidate the crap out of everyone, especially Japan, The Philippines and Vietnam tact is apparently the plan of action. Now, the PRC is claiming Okinawa. It started with two Chinese academics earlier this month saying Japan&#8217;s claims to the islands were nonsense and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Open Thread: The “Relaxed in Seoul” Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/18/open-thread-the-relaxed-in-seoul-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/18/open-thread-the-relaxed-in-seoul-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R. Elgin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have a relaxed weekend here in Korea.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Far-right wingers seek to deny the Gwangju legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/18/far-right-wingers-seek-to-deny-the-gwangju-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2013/05/18/far-right-wingers-seek-to-deny-the-gwangju-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 00:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thekorean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is May 18, 33rd anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising&#8211;one of the most significant events of South Korea&#8217;s march to democracy. On May 18, 1980, the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship mobilized paratroopers against the protesting citizens of Gwangju, and massacred hundreds of them. But Korean conservatives, many of whom trace their roots to Chun Doo-hwan and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>91</slash:comments>
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