This year’s Sapporo Snow Festival welcomed visitors for the first time in three years on Saturday, with more than 150 sculptures on display at Odori Park and Susukino. With the easing of COVID-related border measures, organizers are expecting close to 2 million visitors, the same number as before the pandemic. This year’s festival does …
Month: February 2023
O Yeong-su of ‘Squid Game’ accused of sexual assault
O Yeong-su, an actor renowned for his role in the hit drama ‘Squid Game’, has been facing charges of sexual assault in a trial at a local district court in South Korea. The charges were brought against him by a former member of a theater troupe, who claimed that O had sexually assaulted her …
Would you eat raw chicken?
The owner of a restaurant in Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do sells raw meat made from chicken breast. Next to the raw meat (yukhoe) is a plate with freshly cut chicken breast and gizzard. The meaning of ‘Tongdak’ written on the store signboard is not a fried chicken dish. Baeksuk is being boiled in a steamer on …
The largest cast iron in the world
[source: https://www.doopedia.co.kr/] The neglect of a 43.5-ton cauldron in Goesan-gun for 18 years is a typifies the problems with the local government’s wartime administration. In 2005, Goesan-gun raised 515 million won, including donations from the county and citizens, to produce a super-large cast iron pot with a circumference of 17.85m, a diameter of 5.68m, …
North Korean hackers steal crypto assets of the value of 31 Missiles
In March 2019, a North Korean-affiliated hacking group infiltrated an online gaming network, causing the theft of digital currency valued up to $620 million. The South Korean government estimates that the damage amount is equivalent to the cost of 30 ballistic missiles launched in the first half of last year. Sky Mavis, located in …