This has got to be the fifth or sixth time since I came to Korea when I’ve read about some guy getting busted for stealing women’s panties. This time it’s an office worker in his 40s who was caught for stealing over 200 pieces of women’s underwear.
According to one of the English-language dailies in Korea, [...]
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Don’t get your panties in a twist redux
Posted in South Korea, Weird & Absurd, tagged Korean Stuff, NaBloPoMo09, South Korea on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Investigators Probed over Free Drinks and Sex
Posted in South Korea, Weird & Absurd, tagged Korean Stuff, NaBloPoMo09 on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are some times when the way the news is reported in Korea that it reads like a Franz Kafka short story or novel. Take for example this news tidbit about the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office internal affairs division investigating two officials on suspicion of receiving entertainment at a room salon (a “legal” bordello where women [...]
If you don’t succeed at first, try, try again
Posted in South Korea, Weird & Absurd, tagged Korean Stuff, South Korea, NaBloPoMo09 on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to a story by AP, a 68-year-old woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver’s license almost daily since 2005 finally got a passing grade on her 950th try.
Cha Sa-soon persevered and passed, not with flying colors, but squeaked by with the minimum score 60 out [...]
One night in Bangkok
Posted in Blogging, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Weird & Absurd, tagged Blogging, NaBloPoMo09, Southeast Asia on November 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Imagine this scenario: a man travels to Bangkok on vacation. One night, after too much drinking and debauchery, he tries to get back to his hotel, but with all that alcohol he has consumed he loses his way. Unable to get his bearings, he sits down on a pushcart outside a busy 7-11 and passageway [...]
Wilma and Fred lighting up?
Posted in Americana, Television, Weird & Absurd, tagged Americana, NaBloPoMo09 on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While surfing the internet the other day, I came across some rather bizarre, surreal and even disturbing videos of classic TV commercials, especially this one of Wilma and Fred Fintstone smoking as well as a very evil-looking Jolly Green Giant.
Check out my online article of classic TV commercials here.
WTF? Mariah Carey Lip Synchs in Korea
Posted in Weird & Absurd, tagged NaBloPoMo09 on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You know that it’s got to be a slow news day in Korea, or maybe not depending on how big a fan one is of pop Diva Mariah Carey, when one of the top news stories of the day, according to the Korea Times is about her lip synching.
Talk about lip service, huh?
The article reported [...]
Elephants under suspicion for throwing rocks at Korean woman
Posted in South Korea, Weird & Absurd, tagged Korean Stuff, NaBloPoMo09, South Korea on September 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And in the WTF department here in Korea, it was reported today in the Korea Times (which seems to be printing more and more weird and absurd news snippets) that a 48-year-old woman, identified as a Kim, alleges she sustained a head injury after being hit by a rock thrown by an elephant.
What?
According to the [...]
Gee, don’t some people have bigger fish to fry or things to worry about?
Posted in Weird & Absurd, tagged Korean Stuff, NaBloPoMo09, South Korea on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Or caps to screw back on?
No, I’m not in a bad mood today, though this middle-aged female Korean shopper at Homeplus this afternoon who pushed me aside while I was about to pay for my meager groceries to have the clerk discount her purchase with a coupon she just happened to find pushed me pretty [...]
Expensive “sticky fingers”
Posted in South Korea, Weird & Absurd, tagged Korean Stuff, NaBloPoMo09, South Korea on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s probably true that most kids at one time or another have either thought about or tried shoplifting to see if one could get away with it.
I know I did back in the 1960s when I tried to “lift” some red hot dollars by shoving them into my back pocket and paying for some other [...]
Stealing a kiss? How about hypnotizing for one?
Posted in News, Weird & Absurd, tagged Korean Stuff, NaBloPoMo09 on August 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A modern-day Svengali, in this case, a 32-year-old Korean man, was fined for attempting to hypnotize a woman and then kiss her.
According to the Seoul Central District Court last week, Mr. Park (very rarely in Korean newspapers do they give the full name; unless it is a foreigner) an employee (supposedly a hypnotist according to [...]






