This is such wild situation to watch and I don’t have any clear opinion on it, but I actually understand the LPGA’s wanting it’s players to be able to communicate with the media. From a marketing perspective. If the LPGA were classified as a business I’d say they have the right to request whatever they [...]

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Even though it concerns Koreans I haven’t paid much attention to the stories about the LPGA’s new mandate that it’s golfers must speak passable English. Much of the coverage has seemed to suggest that the decision is xenophobic in nature, which I think is absurd. However, Ray Ratto, a columnist I’ve read off and on [...]

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More golf. You may or may not have heard of Korean Room Salons, which are  bascially karaoke clubs, or, quite literally, places where you sing and drink with girls you can have sex with later. But apparently the new wrinkle is video golf “restaurants,” which according to a Korea Beat piece, have started to surface [...]

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A South Korean tour company is on the verge of making a deal that will give new meaning to the phrase exclusive golf tour. The course is located just outside Pyongyang and is rarely used.
Naturally the course has been dominated by the Jack Nicklaus/Arnold Palmer/Tiger Woods of North Korea himself, Kim Jong-il, who has [...]

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A Taiwanese national was one of three men recently arrested  in North Carolina as part of an elaborate counterfeit golf ring that had been selling fake golf equipment imported from Asia.
The  two-month investigation by state and federal officers resulted in allegations that Donald G. Fondrie and Warren E. Fondrie had operated an Internet-based site that [...]

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The Philippine Bureau of Immigration has started deportation hearings on a case filed against Korean Young Yun-youn, who was involved in an altercation with North Cotabato Vice-Governor Emmanuel Piñol in a golf course in Davao City last month.
Young allegedly swung his golf club at Vice-Governor Emmanuel Piñol and displayed, according to an article in [...]

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After I read this story on Korea Beat I couldn’t stop thinking (and chuckling) about it.
The piece is originally from the Sports Hankook and details the recent arrest of four men for what looks to be a long-standing, elaborate golf hustle.
According to police, at a golf course in Yongin on September 12th, Lim and [...]

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