SUICIDE IS PAINLESS?
12/5/2009
The Han River cuts through Seoul and has 28 bridges linking North and South Seoul. Last year 475 people jumped from them to their deaths. As of September this year, 479 people had jumped. Seoul's fourth oldest bridge, the Mapo Bridge, is a favorite for these leapers of faithlessness. Between January 2007 and September 2009, 1,445 eliminated themselves from the human gene pool by leaping from these 28 bridges. Thirteen percent of them, 191, chose the Mapo Bridge to end it all. The Han Bridge came in second with 151.
OVERPRICED CAFFEINE ADDICTION
12/8/2009
Korea's 11 largest coffee franchises have 1,392 branches across the peninsula. These 11 took in 29 percent of the 1.9 trillion won ($1.6 billion) of coffee sales last year (550 billion won). Starbucks took in 171 billion won of that alone. Here's the breakdown of stores:
Starbucks: 310
Hollys: 213
Angel-In-Us: 211
Coffee Bean: 185
Tom N Toms: 149
Davinci Coffee: 105
Caffe Bene: 100
Twosome Place: 51
Pascucci: 43
Cafe Daily: 18
PLEASE!!!
12/10/2009
South Korea is going to implement a ban on smoking at all public indoor and outdoor places. I really hope this happens, although I have my doubts. The nation's establishment of non-smoking areas several years ago never materialized. No-smoking signs in Korea are always ignored by the cancerous masses. Taxi drives smoke in non-smoking cabs. My students smoke in the stairwells of buildings on campus next to a trio of "No-Smoking" signs. When you go to a PC-bang (computer room) and ask for a seat in the non-smoking section, the attendant gives you an ashtray. Koreans are caught smoking or trying to smoke aboard airplanes more than any other nationality. So, yes, I have my doubts. But I would like to see this happen as the country finally begins to realize the seriousness of the idiocracy of smoking. Smoking related diseases kill 50,000 people annually in Korea.
BELL COMES TO SOJUTOWN?
12/12/2009Taco Bell is returning to South Korea after a 20-year absence! Yes, Korea has them on its American military bases, but the last one off-post closed two decades ago. On March 1, 2010, Taco Bell returns to the masses. I can't wait to get my hands on some of their nasty, although inescapable, fast food version of Mexican food. Considering that Korea has only two good Mexican restaurants, La Casa in Songtan and Dos Tacos near the Kyobo Tower at Kangnam Station, I'm certain Korea's sizable expat community will welcome Taco Bell's return with open arms and mouths. The EV Boys have finally been heard.
INCHEON THE BEST
12/12/2009 Business Traveler Magazine has voted Korea's Incheon International Airport the best in the world along with Singapore's Changi Airport and Dubai International Airport. Journalists and industry professionals picked the winners in a global survey.
I WAS RIGHT!
12/12/2009 Korean actress Yang Mi-ra has returned to television after taking a two-year break due to the plastic surgery she had in 2007. She said that she did it to change her image. I guess this means that she did it so sensible people wouldn't respect her as much. The vague article doesn't say what happened other than that people were unhappy with the changes she made. They should simply be angry that another pretard with emotional issues blew a wad of cash to placate her ego. MORE MORONS
12/12/2009 Korea's Joongang Daily carried an article about what has to be the two least intelligent girls in the country. A pretarded teenage girl slit one of her wrists and used her blood to finger paint a love letter to a member of one of Korea's boy band clones, MBLAQ. She didn't even mail the letter to the effeminate center of her affections. Instead, she uploaded five photos of it to the Internet. In her letter, she mentioned the stupidity of a fellow pretarded teenager who had done something similar on November 29. This other person I hope doesn't reproduce uploaded pictures of a letter written to Ok Taek-yeon, another lady-boy-esque member of 2PM. Only this girl was slightly smarter, if not more grotesque about it. She wrote hers in menstrual blood. The MBLAQ fan wrote, “What’s up with Ok Taek-yeon menstrual blood letter? If you’re going do one, at least do it right. Menstrual blood? Act your age. I wanted to show how to do it better.” I hope these idiots manage to remove themselves from the gene pool rather quickly.
peace,
Nut
