Almost missed this one. A couple days ago the Lotte Giants, who recently hired Jerry Royster as the first foreign manager in Korea, have also hired a foreign pitching coach in Fernando Arroyo.

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After a poor showing in the 37th Baseball World Cup and the Asian Olympic Baseball Qualifiers Taiwanese manager Kuo Tai-Yuan will resign, as the team announced, “to take a rest.”
Indeed.
Kuo is a retired Taiwanese NPB baseball pitcher who won 117 games during a 13-year career with the Seibu Lions. He’s widely regarded as the greatest […]

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One of my favorite articles from this past year was the February New York Times piece Korean Men Use Brokers to Find Brides in Vietnam written by Norimitsu Onishi.
It tells the story of two Korean men, Kim Wan-su and Kim Tae-goo, who, through matchmaking services, travel to Vietnam in search of brides. Anyone who’s lived in Korea more […]

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Hey remember that great YouTube video of the Singaporean Media Development Authority rapping and rocking their way into all our hearts? Well, according to this AFP story the clip generated enough response that the Singaporean government has moved to censor it.
Since it was posted on the You Tube video-sharing website two weeks ago, the film, […]

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