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	<title>The Marmot's Hole</title>
	
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		<title>Odds and Ends: May 16, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/16/odds-and-ends-may-16-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds and Ends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[- The UPP: the gift that keeps on giving. Now the leader of the 1982 burning of the USIS library in Busan in claiming in an open letter that Kim Jong-heon, another potential UPP proportional rep, really was a Pyongyang-trained North Korean agent. - The four South Koreans arrested in China for helping North Korean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Most Ridiculous Anti-Hallyu Movements in Japan’</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/16/most-ridiculous-anti-hallyu-movements-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Tabloid Crap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Korean Wave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean Wave]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For your reading enjoyment&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>‘NL’ lawmakers act like they don’t recognize ROK: Chosun Ilbo</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/16/nl-lawmakers-act-like-they-dont-recognize-rok-chosun-ilbo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Korean Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unified Progressive Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the UPP, every day must be like Christmas at the Chosun Ilbo, where today, they point out&#8212;not to anyone&#8217;s surprise&#8212;that many of the UPP&#8217;s lawmakers with &#8220;National Liberation&#8221; backgrounds have acted like they don&#8217;t recognize the legitimacy of the Republic of Korea. Of the six lawmakers from the Gyeonggi Dongbu Alliance, most were, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Juche follower arrested in China for North Korean human rights work</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/former-juche-follower-arrested-in-china-for-north-korean-human-rights-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/former-juche-follower-arrested-in-china-for-north-korean-human-rights-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Yeong-hwan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been confirmed that North Korea democracy activist Kim Yeong-hwan was arrested on March 29 in northeast China, reportedly for helping North Korean defectors. Kim Yeong-hwan is an interesting fellow. He&#8217;s one of the &#8220;godfathers&#8221; of South Korea&#8217;s jusapa (a.k.a. the National Liberation faction), the faction of the student movement that adheared to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shin Dong-hyuk and the great escape from Camp 14</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/shin-dong-hyuk-and-the-great-escape-from-camp-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/shin-dong-hyuk-and-the-great-escape-from-camp-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 04:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Escape from Camp 14]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody&#8217;s talking about former WaPo correspondent Blaine Harden&#8216;s &#8220;Escape from Camp 14,&#8221; and with harrowing tales like this, it&#8217;s easy to see why. In response to a question I got via Facebook, frankly, I don&#8217;t know how much of the Guardian&#8217;s excerpt to believe. That North Korea is capable of great cruelty, there is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well, yeah, but who ISN’T obsessed with porn?</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/well-yeah-but-who-isnt-obsessed-with-porn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/well-yeah-but-who-isnt-obsessed-with-porn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s comforting to know that North Koreans essentially operates like the SEC: He learned about blood feuds from Afghan tribal leaders and he learned that al Qaeda terrorists and enemy agents from North Korea all have a weakness for porn. Crumpton said: &#8216;I never met a North Korean that did not like pornography.&#8217; Telling interviewer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Splitsville for the UPP?</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-unless-youre-a-leftist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/15/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-unless-youre-a-leftist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Korean Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unified Progressive Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s our sad duty to report that the torid love affair that was the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) may be coming to an end: The strife-ridden Unified Progressive Party (UPP) seemed to be on course for a break-up Monday after moderates passed a proposal to make Rep. Kang Ki-kab as the leftist party’s emergency leader. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Name That Picture</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/14/name-that-picture-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/14/name-that-picture-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R. Elgin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Korean Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hair pulling fun]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=28035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a new game of &#8220;Name that Picture&#8221;.  Please vote for one of the selections below and, if you are the first to be correct, you will be admired by all.  This picture is of: 1. Power Sale at the Hyundai Department store at Kintex. 2. Woman caught cheating boy friend at game with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Health in Digging in The Dirt</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/14/new-health-in-digging-in-the-dirt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/14/new-health-in-digging-in-the-dirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R. Elgin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Park Iktae of Reuters has a nice article on how some Koreans are rediscovering the countryside as a way of living better and are moving back to a slower lifestyle.  Considering the financial crises in the rest of the world, this might be a reasonable alternative.]]></description>
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		<title>That’s a tall, tall Lego tower</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/14/thats-a-tall-tall-lego-tower/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/05/14/thats-a-tall-tall-lego-tower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 03:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Koehler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Tabloid Crap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lego]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Korea has built the world&#8217;s tallest Lego tower at 31.9m to mark Lego&#8217;s 80th birthday.]]></description>
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