- India is hoping to gain a stake in North Korea's Musan iron ore mines. Anything that can help forestall China from establishing its Inner Cháoxiān Autonomous Region is fine by me.
- Toyota has finally begun recalling cars in Korea.
- North Korea is threatening to stop extorting money from the US cooperating with the US by returning remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War. The US is calling this a humanitarian issue. Yonhap is also carrying the story.
- And speaking of North Korean threats, the North Korea-supporting website Uriminzokkiri has threatened that high-ranking defector Hwang Jang-yop, now in Japan, "will never be safe."
- Reuters has a report on how the Korean War is still raging for the five hundred or so South Koreans imprisoned in the North as POWs.
- USA Today talks about the coach of North Korea's national soccer team and how he could be replaced — by Guus Hiddink! Expect a lot of South Koreans to be rooting for Guus Hiddink to win, as long as it's not against the South Korean team.
- Tully's Coffee has opened two outlets in Seoul. I've been there in Japan (and I've bought their coffee in the US), and while they're a skosh takai, they are pretty good. I hope they do better than Diedrich's, an Orange County-based chain that had good coffee in nice settings but couldn't stand up to Starbucks.
- Bloomberg has a mishmash of news stories related to Korea — from Kim Jong-un's ascendancy to the iPhone's takeover.
- The Christian Science Monitor on all the communities that vied to be Google's high-speed guinea pig.
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