A texting mistake reveals corruption of a magazine.

  There are many weekly magazines in Korea. How do they keep publishing? How do they make money? Newsstand sales and subscribers will do most of them? No. Unfortunately, commercial ads are the major source of the magazines in Korea. This can be a double-edged blade. Too less ads will make the magazine hard to run the company. Too many ads will make the magazine nothing but waste of pulp. This is the worst case when a magazine is too much dependent on ads of a specific company. 

  The picture is a text message from publisher of magazine. What's saying in the message is that the publisher is sorry for the previous column which is not favourable about the advertiser. Only, he did a mistake sending it to a another news corporation reporter, so that we are able to know dirty connection between the magazine and the advertiser. Samsung. 

  The column was about a new movie released to the theatres, and the story is a father's struggle to revealing the samsung's semiconductor factory is using over hundres of kinds of toxic chemicals, and many workers are/were suffering from cancer, leukimia, or many unknown diseases/died without any appogies or adknowledgement of responsibility.

  On the contrary to our common sense, the publisher begged forgiveness to the advertiser in the text message. Why? Very simple. Samsung is number one advertiser of the magazine. Without money from ads of samsung, this magazine company can not keep living. There are many magazines so dependent on samsung. Here is the original report: http://www.pressian.com/news/article.html?no=114385

  You can change the view of this case to see that samsung is using ads for controlling the press. That is reason many intellectuals, labour unions and NGOs are making harsh criticisms on samsung.

"Acne is not a disease" by financial government.

      Korea is large financial deficit state. In order to break it through, a financial government - not a medical government - made a new medical definition. "Acne is not a disease." And, after now on, all kinds of the patients who take medical treatment at dermatologists have to pay more VAT because it's not a disease. Below is a protest campaign of doctors' association to call the department of VAT of the financial government which made this ridiculous medical definition.

A kiss scene could be harmful to kids?

Original Poster

  Moving Rating is being done by government agency in Korea. The Agency saw the original poster of the movie Pompoii, it pointed out the hug and kissing. It said a picture of kissing of the actor/actress is too sensual and that a kiss scene could be harmful to grading students. Given government order, distributing company changed poster as below. This is an incident showing the freedom of expression.

sensored poster

Dear French Hypocrites

Dear French Hypocrites: 
Can you imagine that The German Chancellor Angela Merkel were a  Nazi party and still admire Hitler so much that offer flowers to show her loyal dedication to Hitler? 

Dear Sane French people: 
Your governments are full of hypocrite bourgeois. 

Shinzo Abe Did It!

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the controversial Yasukuni shrine. Is it hard to understand? What is Yasukuni shrine for? He worshipped Hideki Tojo, the man responsible for the attack of the pearl harbor, and other class-A war crimanals. Abe don't think Japan is not the bad guy in WWII. He and his follow politicians think Japan lost the war, and simply the winner became the good guy and the loser forced to be the bad guy. And they are teaching students that Japan's didn't do anything wrong, ignoring all the invasions and war crimes. That is what happening now in Japan. What would happen if Japan had won the war over US and The Allies? Throughout the cold war and current security situation in Asia, US did used Japan as an military base against Russia and China, and North Korea. But Abe's thinking different thing. With enormous economic and military power, which is supported by US, Abe is thinking that Japan has all the rights to use the military power, and no need to be submissive friend of US. Still don't get it? You'll definately get it when next Kamikazes hit your mainland. 

US grant Japan to Invade Korea?

Today's news : U.S. welcomed Japan’s bigger role in regional security and stability, “collective self-defense.”

To me and most of Koreans, the meaning of this agreement is very shocking: US gave Japan an implicit sign which allow Japan to invade Korea, Again! Rather Koreans allow Japan to land on the soil of Korea, Koreans will fight against Japan, even hand in hand with North Korea if needed.What the hell The President Obama thinking? Did he forgot that US troops fought against Japs in Korea and many pacific islands?

Goodbye STARTAC III

My deepest sorrow. The 7-year beloved mobile phone is broken. STARTAC III from motorola. I bought it at 2007 and my hands were so attached to it. Even  though the people are using iPhone or Android phones, I felt no inconvenience. The more it ages, I become more proud that I'm using STARTAC III. The reason I can't fix it is that Motorola does not run mobile phone business anymore in Korea. You can choose among Apple, LG, Samsung only. Now, I am going to leave a good old memories with STARTAC III.

I don't understand peoples using iPhones or Android phones. A smartphone is not just a mobile phone. it has a full function of a PC. It is a whole small PC with phone. They are on-line for 24 hours. Most of smartphone users don't install firewall or anti-virus apps for internet safety. Their phones are exposed to cracking, virus, malware. And I don't like the idea that one must log on iTunes or gmail to use their phones. Why should I do it? Mobile phone has nothing to do with specific software. Recently, we became aware of PRISM of NSA and The Apple and The Google got big mony from NSA by leaking informations of iPhone and Android phones. For all that, people love to use smartphones. This is just stupid. Maybe someday I have to use smartphone when there is no choice. I wish I could use Ubuntu for mobile phone.