As several of our devoted readers pointed out on my facebook page recently, the LA Dodgers are making a much-anticipated trip to Taiwan to play an exhibition series against the CPBL’s finest.
There has been speculation as to which members of the Dodgers will come exactly.  Many out here are skeptical that they’ll bring their A-team. [...]

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You might think I’m doing a post on Formula One coming to Korea because I know something about it. Wrong. I once watched Formula One in a Camden apartment I was house-sitting at in London. That was about eight years ago and I haven’t seen or heard of it since.
But the fact that it’s coming [...]

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A brief break from baseball news to bring you an art history moment: Japanese Shunga are erotic ukiyo e paintings, usually found in woodblock format. Inspired by Chinese medical manuals, Japanese Shunga date back to the Heian period (794-1185) but had their artistic apex during the Edo period (1603 – 1867). [...]

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This reminds me of one of my all time favorite EWC posts about Jose Lima secretly perving out on some Kia cheerleaders as they dance atop the dugout. Karim Garcia isn’t being so discreet as he ogles at some ceremonial bat girls in Busan, but this is nearly as funny.

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One of the great joys when the international scouting directors come into town are the inevitable trips to TGI Fridays–the scouting mecca in Asia–for some shop talk over a three-for-all and a mocha mud pie. And as a recent “article” in Korea’s Naver shows us, Friday’s mania has now extended into Korea.
Looks like our [...]

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Ok, I have to admit — the 2ne1 (pronounced “twenty one”) group I bagged on a week or so ago is starting to get into my head a little. I was at a Wa Bar with my wife the other night and I did one of those –hey, this is kind of good…who is this?– deals [...]

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A couple of things caught my eye over the weekend. First, Chae Yeon, who’s been around for a few years and is probably at the point in her career (she’s over 30) when — well, she needs to come out with a video so sexy that it’s banned from Korean TV. 
Guess what? It worked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTusBE93U0

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I have to say, I’m pretty suprirsed by this.
While Naked News plans its inaugural Naked News Awards for later this month, the company is quietly gearing up to roll out a South Korean version of its program.
Friends of mine in the states don’t believe me when I tell them porn is illegal in South Korea. [...]

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I know that if you’re like me, today after watching your roto team sink to abysmal new depths, you were thinking “I wonder who the most beautiful Taiwanese celebrities in the world are”.  Well, lucky for us a blogger named Fiji has provided us with a post entitled “Top Most Beautiful Taiwanese Girls“.  [Warning: link [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrwE1a-Hfrw

Oh, fecundity.

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Funny item from the Tokyo Reporter, entitled Devious women spring honey traps at spring training (really it’s winter camp) about women in Okinawa luring pro baseball players into their lairs in hopes of getting them to pay hush money to avoid a scandal in the sports dailies. 
The tabloid applies the term “camp followers” to predatory women who [...]

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Ostensibly this is a post about China targeting Google in a pornography crackdown. You see, China warned Google and several other portals that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users. Of course, blah blah blah…
Ok, evidence. Pushing Chinese officials to the edge of their patience (and chairs) are a round [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApuszuPBKwo

I can’t believe it took me 33 years to catch on to this, but this weekend I was in a hotel with the fam and we stumbled across Japanese Women’s Extreme Pro wrestling on TV. This is more or less a must see if you haven’t seen it before.
Another facet of Japanese TV [...]

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I don’t know about you, but Yu Darvish’s life is just like mine.  Rock star looks, stretch Hummer limos, a signature line of cologne, being trailed daily by insatiable mobs of young female fans.  For those of you with too much free time on your hands today who want to peer just a little bit [...]

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We at EWC would like to wish a happy Thanksgiving to all of our stateside readers and your families.
In the spirit of the holiday, I think it’s only right that we list the things we’re thankful for. I’ll go first: My lovely wife and daughter, working for the Twins, Obama, family and friends, [...]

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Lee Hyo-ri is so overexposed in Korea right now…I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I’m almost tired of looking at her. Others living here are already to this point. On any typical weekend you’ll find two or three different shows — simply featuring her traipsing around the countryside…going to great lengths to [...]

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We’ve been at this EWC thing for a year and change now. and it’s been a gleeful ride so far.   Aside from a few near mind bending homicidal spats minor disagreements, Aaron and I have gotten along famously, and we’ve been slowly moving towards finding our own voice/niche/stride/[insert synonym here] as writers and editors.
However, [...]

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New evidence of match fixing has emerged in the latest CPBL scandal, as 14 players–including six foreigners–have now been implicated. (The link for some reason only bothered to mention the foreigners involved).
The scandal has already caused one of the leagues six teams–the now defunct D Media T-Rex–to fold, and now involves Chinatrust Whales [...]

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Fret not Aaron, there’s always Reon Kadena bouncing up and down gleefully on a giant rubber ball (NSFW).

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I guess this sort of controversy is nothing new in the silly world  of beauty pageants, but I found the news that Miss Korea runner-up (Kim Hee-kyeong) had her status stripped due to her having posed in lingerie and semi-nude poses prior to the competition, a little surprising.
The crazy thing is, it’s being reported [...]

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