Well, the correct Korean term would be noraebang (for ’singing room’), but still … Thanks to Kimchi Mama Jae Ran for turning me on to this Korean toddler singing ‘Hey Jude.’
From the monthly archives:
April 2008
Note to those using Internet Explorer: Apparently the YouTube videos I post here aren’t showing up when you look at the blog. I recommend using a browser that doesn’t suck canal water backward, like Firefox or Opera.
Also, in thinking more about the video from the Millers, what makes me most upset is the contention that we should expect seatbelts to come unlatched “on impact.”
Um, isn’t in case of “impact” the whole point of a seatbelt? We don’t need them when we’re just riding around.
I’ll stop now…
This is off-topic, but I know a lot of people with young children also read this blog.I also had no idea that seatbelt latches are known to fail. Please put your kids in a LATCH-attached five-point harness as long as you are able to.
As you might have already read by now, several thousand Chinese nationals here turned out to “protect” the Seoul leg of the Olympic torch run from a couple hundred protestors. (Some of them were pro-Tibetan activists, but many Koreans who oppose China’s policy of repatriating North Korean refugees.)
Things got quite ugly, as you can read about (and see) here, here and here.
I think more than a few people were a little unnerved by all the “One China” chants—-ostensibly in support of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, and, some thought, also a reference to Taiwan.
It doesn’t take too much imagination to see how this philosophy, extended, could prove locally problematic.
From the comments section at Marmot’s Hole:
Any protestor I saw today was quickly surrounded and shouted down by chants of “One World One China!”. My Korean friend asked “what does that mean, does that mean us too?”
