Well, maybe if he hits the treadmill during the offseason.
(Not all that work safe)

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Apparently not everyone in Ulsan was thrilled with Lee Myung-bak’s landslide victory last night. I spotted this while waiting for a bus this morning.

As far as I know one can be arrested for this in South Korea. Then again, I saw some high school kids tearing down and dancing on a similar sign this afternoon. A police […]

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To follow up yesterday’s post, this video highlights not dekochari trucks, but bicycles, which also became popular amongst Japanese who were too young to drive. Same idea.
As opposed to the video in the other post, there’s no female police officer losing her top in the wind of a passing dekochari truck in this one, but […]

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You might remember a post from last week detailing the plight of Doosan Bears catcher Hong Seung-heun, who asked for a trade, and complained about, amongst other things, that it was “not easy with the Bears because the team requires me to contribute as a hitter.”
Well, the soap opera continues.
The title of this article is a quote […]

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Excuse me for falling for the ol’ politician playing baseball stunt, but I’ve always found Jiabao to be a pretty likable guy. This is the cover of a new Japanese book documenting the Chinese premier’s ice-breaking visit to Japan last April.

During the visit in April, he played baseball with Ritsumeikan University students in which he wore a […]

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