Dogs Now Considered Livestock in Korea

This was even in the Ottawa free newspaper, Metro this morning....bon apetite!!


Seoul Categorizing Dogs as Livestock
Seoul will propose to the central government that dogs should be categorized as livestock in order to properly regulate the trade of dog meat and strengthen sanitation inspections.

The proposal aims to solve the ironic situation where many Koreans enjoy eating dog meat despite the absence of regulations on the sale of dog meat amid ambiguous categorization of the animal, a city official from the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) said.

``The real problem is, we cannot regulate the sanitation process of how dog meat is served due to the lack of regulations,'' the official said. ``We will have a series of public hearings to discuss the issue as it's a necessary step.''

Under the current law, dogs are categorized in the same group as donkeys, rabbits, horses and deer, not as livestock such as beef and chicken. Read More...


Seoul college sues Yale for $50m
A South Korean college is suing top US university Yale for $50m (£25m) over an administrative error that snowballed into a national scandal. Read More...

What the Hell???? Next thing you know it, Seoul will be referring to dogs as livestock!!! Oh wait...they just did that too!



FINALLY...How to speak fluent Japanese without saying a word PART 2 by Ken Tanaka

See Ken Tanaka...
Ken is the KING....just watch a few vids and you'll understand!



Korean Haiku/Tanka Poets Shunned By Countrymen
Japan Probe/Herald Tribune
SEOUL: When Son Ho Yun published her poetry, South Korean writers denounced her as unpatriotic.

When Rhee Han Soo wrote his poems, he avoided discussing them with friends because he was certain he would get the same negative response.

Although they never met, Son and Rhee shared a passion for more than six decades: They each wrote traditional Japanese poetry in South Korea, where animosities rooted in Japan's colonial rule still run deep and people of their generation considered such literary pursuits little short of sacrilegious.

"Here, people look up to you if you write poetry in English and publish it in America or England," said Rhee, an 82-year-old retired dentist. "But if you write Japanese poems, they despise you or dismiss you as a fool."Read more...



Fund created to pay for manual removal of human waste from World Heritage site
Mainichi
YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima -- Yakushima Municipal Assembly has unanimously approved the creation of a fund to pay for the manual removal of human waste products from toilets threatening the island's World Heritage-listed natural environment.

There are six mountain area toilets on Yakushima, all of which use sewage tanks, the contents of which are buried in the mountains.

There has been a massive and constant increase in tourists to the area since UNESCO added it to the World Heritage list in 1993. The increase in people led to fears that their wastes would adversely affect the area's unique natural environment.
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Geek Heaven!!! I bet there's more than a few scary creatures visiting this place!! "Otaku" as they are called in Japan..."absolutely bizarre" here in North America!
Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008

A visitor to the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 looks at cartoon figures on display in Tokyo, March 27, 2008. The world's largest anime fair expects to have more than 100,000 visitors from around the world. (AP)