Korean Netizens Attack Dog-Shit-Girl: "It began in a subway train with a girl whose dog made a mess on the train floor. When nearby elders told her to clean up the mess, she basically told them to fuck off. A nearby enraged netizen then took pictures of her and posted it, without any masking, on a popular website which started a nationwide witchhunt.

Within hours, she was labeled gae-ttong-nyue (dog-shit-girl) and her pictures and parodies were everywhere. Within days, her identity and her past were revealed."

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: "Anti-Japanese Propaganda War Posters"

Roll Over, Godzilla: Korea Rules - New York Times: "A weepy love story, 'Winter Sonata,' became the rage in Uzbekistan after driving the Japanese into a frenzy last year. In Thailand and Malaysia, people devoured 'A Tale of Autumn,' and Vietnamese were glued to 'Lovers in Paris.' In China, South Korean dramas are sold, and pirated, everywhere, and the young adopt the clothing and hairstyles made cool by South Korean stars.

South Korea, historically more worried about fending off cultural domination by China and Japan than spreading its own culture abroad, is emerging as the pop culture leader of Asia. From well-packaged television dramas to slick movies, from pop music to online games, South Korean companies and stars are increasingly defining what the disparate people in East Asia watch, listen to and play."

Bacon Alarm Clock:"WHAT: An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.

HOW: Once the alarm goes off, it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked it such that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power a halogen lamp in the "baker module" that slow-cooks the bacon in about 20 minutes. "

Korea vs. Japan Childrens Art - The Design Weblog - design.weblogsinc.com _: "I have had Corean friends whose parents still have very strong anti-Japanese sentiments. Apparently in Corea they just aren’t ready to give that up yet. Brainwashing their little kids, they are some how able to coax out these little works of art from them."

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Cream puffs rise to meet new demand - Yahoo! News: "A nation of allegedly nutrition-conscious consumers has some serious explaining to do: The cream puff is making a comeback.

Two competing Japanese chains - both new to the U.S. market - are selling fresh, hot cream puffs like, ah, hot cakes. Other big names are starting to peddle cream puffs via mail order. Even Bon Appetit magazine has pegged the cream puff - a puff pastry with flavored cream filling - as the hot dessert for 2005."