- The Chosun Ilbo has a piece on Kristine Kwok of the South China Morning Post and the experiences and difficulties she and other Western journalists faced in North Korea when she accompanied PRC Premier Wen Jiabao to Pyongyang.
- North Korea's ceremonial head, Supreme People's Assembly President Kim Yongnam, reportedly told visiting American business leaders about how threatened North Korea feels from its neighbors.
- Kim Jong-il nearly doubled the number of "field guidance" trips this year, from 90 in 2008 to 156 in 2009.
- This story suggests the United States will pursue a "Ukrainian solution" to denuclearizing North Korea.
- The Chosun Ilbo has a piece describing helpful hints for enjoying onch'ŏn, or hot springs.
- High levels of certain bacteria make 23% of spring water sources unwise to drink.
- This gets trotted out from time to time, and the first time I heard it a couple years ago I was skeptical, but one of the most popular types of Christmas tree in the US is a fir tree originally from Korea.
- Providing free school lunches has become politicized in Kyŏnggido province, where the opposition is going for a populist approach of providing them to all fifth- and sixth-graders, but the ruling party is going for a practical approach of giving them only to poor students, but in all grades.
- For some reason the Korea Times has decided to do a "person in the news" focus on the late Cardinal Stephen Kim. Maybe because it's Christmas.
- With 1.3 million foreign residents in South Korea in 2010, the KT reports that multiculturalism is here to stay.
- Here's a look at various incarnations of Santa Claus around South Korea this year.
- What better time than when we celebrate the birth of history's most famous baby to discuss ways local governments are trying to boost the birth rate.
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