Two reasons there were no rankings last week. One, it’s not easy to write these every week. Two, because my favorite Korean stat site Inning was down, and I wasn’t about to try and navigate the clumsy KBO home page, which has far less interesting stats.
So we’re catching up on two weeks here. Lotte has [...]

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Over the weekend I wrote a  piece  for the  travel and culture magazine  Seoul about Busan.  One of the things I wanted to include was an Anchang Village, a fairly remote place in the mountains. If you’ve ever been to Busan you know it’s something like a city dropped into a mountain range by the [...]

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Curious side story to the recent Sichuan earthquake, as drawn out by Danwei from a few different sources.
On 12 May, Fan Meizhong was teaching literature to a class of high school students when the earthquake hit. He shouted, “Earthquake!” and then ran out of the classroom, down the stairs, and out onto the field, leaving [...]

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