Don’t get your panties in a twist redux

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, [...]

Read Full Post »

Investigators Probed over Free Drinks and Sex

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

If you don’t succeed at first, try, try again

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

One night in Bangkok

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Wilma and Fred lighting up?

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.

Read Full Post »

WTF? Mariah Carey Lip Synchs in Korea

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Elephants under suspicion for throwing rocks at Korean woman

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Gee, don’t some people have bigger fish to fry or things to worry about?

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Expensive “sticky fingers”

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Stealing a kiss? How about hypnotizing for one?

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 [...]

Read Full Post »