Also from The Party Pooper: Andre Kim scares the living hell out of me, too. Look at his face, man! Brrrr.

The Party Pooper posts, somewhat angrily, about a recent pop music video by the Korean band Jaurim. He interprets the video as outright racist, another example of a pop culture chock full of anti-American (read: anti-white) stereotypes. Of course, you can see the video here, and ought to before commenting on it. The rest of my thoughts will be in the extended section of this post. Click the link if you’re interested…

I have not much to say about the whole Dokto/Takeshima row that’s on, but I must heartily recommend Marmot’s coverage. (Here, here, and here, but check yourself for newer posts as well.) Nora Park expresses my own misgivings about the argument well: Mr. Ban, are we going to go to war over a stamp or a small town assembly’s vote? Let me know so I can be sure to pack. I don’t want to pack, I’m not about to leave, but good grief, how far is either side willing to go?

This is a rant. You may wish to skip it, unless you want to see yet another example of a ranting, furious foreign who was offended by a widely accepted practice in Korea.

The first Korean music video that showed up on the Korean MSN page that loads automatically in Windows Media Player because I am in Korea. This isn’t an ecxample of a good video, it’s absolute cheese, but for those friends of mine abroad, it’s a pretty encyclopedic index of gestures, stock facial expressions, plot moments in romance movies, clichéd actions, locations (the comic book shop, the stationery store, the whorehouse…), stock characters—the whore with the heart of gold, the young, sweet man who nonetheless kinda has a thing for screwing hookers, but changes his ways, the radio announcer who is …