#Korean

Note to people taking pot shots at Nicholson Baker for his piece on lab origin for pandemic: His most recent book was born out of years of trying to find
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This is a really interesting article about Uniqlo shuttering its flagship store in Seoul. Putting aside the socio-political issues surrounding Korea's boycott of Japanese products, it is very telling which
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"Even now I cannot forget that moment of history when I firmly held Your Excellency’s hand at that beautiful and sacred location as the whole world watched with great interest
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Long thread about my, rather inconclusive, attempts to make sense of Saudi Arabia's golden missile model box. 1/12 In 2013, Saudi Arabia published a tiny picture of three golden missile
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Why do kpop groups release Japanese language albums? It is not done for US which is being targeted now with the occasional English album and an English song or two
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Thinking more on major events in the U.S. that weren't covered in school. I had to learn about Kent State from Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio" and Crankshaft comics.
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Imagine you were born in 1900.When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing
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My latest for @QZ: multi billion dollar heist? On April 28th Ethiopia signed a lucrative $3.6 billion US oil refinery deal with Greencomm Technologies...an American company with no experience whatsoever
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a thread on how to help cravity gain the roty award and what to do streaming the music videos! cloud9 especially has almost reaches 12 millions making sure they are
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We noticed a recent post suggesting a list of topics missing from the Cyberpunk 2020/RED/2077 universe that should be included for a more modern take on the genre. And we
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Reuters photographers were on the ground covering the most important stories during President Trump's presidency. Here is a selection of standout @reuterspictures taken during the past four years and the
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Who’s ready for some dessert? Seokjin as The Ultimate Dessert: A Thread ~ #Seokjin #Jin #진 #BTS #ImportantThreads @BTS_twt Red silk? Red velvet? Either way I’d like a
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Let’s talk about NU’EST’s popularity, for those of you who don’t know Firstly, NU’EST’s popularity is the highest in Asia, particularly Korea. Just because they are not as popular in
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Something I've noticed over years and years of following information about the DPRK is that even in all of the older traditional homes of the countryside everyone has tons of
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People have been talking about the Joe Rogan Experience #JRE podcast @joerogan, which I am happy to have been on twice. I think Joe is a first-rate interviewer, a great
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There are 3 historical narratives about Hiroshima and Nagasaki that emerge roughly in chronological order: the "heroic" narrative, the "tragic" narrative, and the "apocalyptic" narrative. The "heroic"
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