I admit that I am not a fan of Condoleezza Rice and the rest of the Bush administration. However, my lack of respect for her went all the way beyond the nth level of hell after I read this lovely article.

While I agree that trusting North Korea blindly, without any precautions, is not exactly a good idea, I don’t think calling someone an idiot who trust them is right either. I mean, seriously. She said “I mean, who trusts the North Koreans? You’d have to be an idiot to trust the North Koreans”. How about we turn that statement around say “You’d have to be an idiot to trust the Americans”. I’m sure she’d be insulted and angered by that, but hey, she’s the one who said that about North Korea.

And yes, North Korea isn’t the best country out there, but what she said was really offensive and insulting. I have Korean blood in me. I’m sure I have ancestors and relatives so far removed from me that they are North Koreans as well. So yeah, Rice, I take insult to your statement big time.

Tags: condoleezza rice, north korea

This article is about how the US State Department considers Hongdae and Sinchon, two famous clubbing and bar hopping districts in Seoul, “dangerous areas”. This article brings out two clashing viewpoints from me. One is bewilderment and the other is anger.

I am trying to see why the US State Department would even consider those two areas dangerous. For a city where crime isn’t huge as some major cities, I just cannot fathom what could be listed as dangerous. I mean, yes, since it is a bar district, running into drunkards is not my idea of safe, but it just makes me wonder what they mean by “dangerous”. Yes, crime will always exist, but is it really high in those two areas or is it just another way to prevent Americans from going there? And by Americans I mean those who are affiliated with the US military.
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Tags: discrimination, hongdae, itaewon-dong, mapo-gu, military, seodaemun-gu, seoul, sinchon-dong, south korea, united states, united states state department, yongsan-gu

Several years ago, a video blogger by the name of Josh Wolf was imprisoned for not handing over his video to the federal authorities. The video dealt with the G8 protest in San Francisco, and Wolf wanted to protect the people in the video, so he refused to give the video. He spent seven month in prison before he was released.

His story captured Donna Lee’s attention, and she decided to make a documentary out of it. The documentary is called Adventures of Josh Wolf: Activist Video Blogger. The documentary was shown last month at the Mill Valley Film Festival and received great reviews. This is Lee’s first film project, a project she decided to do for a class.

In the future, she plans to submit this documentary to Korean film festivals next year. Who knows? Maybe we’ll see and hear about this like at Pusan International Film Festival!

Tags: california, donna lee, g8 protest, josh wolf, korean-american, mill valley film festival, pusan international film festival, south korea, united states

I’m impressed. Not only is Obama’s new economic committee head advisor a Korean-American, but the advisor’s a woman. WOO HOO. That just added double kudos in my book. Added to that is the fact that she’s only forty years old. Hah! Sometimes age is nothing but a number. Who says you need to be anciently old to know how to get the job done? Well, providing she does get the job done, I hope she’ll do a fine job with her new position.
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Tags: audrey choi, barack obama, choi sook nyul, east germany, fulbright scholarship, harvard, korean-american, pyongnyang, united states, wall street journal, west germany, white house fellows