Here I’d been thinking Woori Heroes was the first KBO team sponsored by a cigarette company. I was only partly right. Here’s an old Haitai ad for cigarette gum. Haitai is a confectionery company, and former owners of the Tigers, who are now owned by Kia.
Incidentally the Tigers are the most successful franchise in Korean baseball […]

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Damn the modern age. Here’s just one more example that robots are stealing jobs away from humans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jcstZbBTVA

I give you the Breast Massage Robot, developed by Beijing’s BUBBY Robot Technologies Co. The company is currently looking for investors by the way, citing the following attainable health benefits for women who purchase (or have one purchased — […]

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It’s just one of those things about living next to China. It’s gross, uncomfortable, and makes you not want to go outdoors — never a good feeling. If you do go outside your throat may begin to hurt and occasionally you get a headache.
Ah, yes. I missed you dearly hwangsa.
Hwangsa is a lovely Asian phenomenon. Basically […]

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No, not a story about Kobe, unfortunately, but about Tim Laker, a former MLB player with Montreal, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay and Cleveland, named in the Mitchell Report. ESPN has a report covering an interview session Laker did with the media today in which he expresses great regret for doing steroids. His tale is one of the less glamorous ones we’ve been privy […]

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