L2W - Love Child, Man ♥ Man, & Japan Fish Ban

The Chosun Ilbo, Korea’s largest newspaper, reported Prosecutor General Chae Dong-wook, 54, has a 10-year-old son from an extramarital affair with a karaoke bar owner he met in 1999 .Chae denied the report saying ,“There is nothing I did wrong. There are people trying to shake the prosecution organization.”  Though Chae was appointed by current president Park Geun-hye in April this year, Chae has been viewed as the advocate of opposition party and left wing civil groups.  Chae offered to take DNA test to prove his innocence, but he resigned on Friday after the Justice Ministry ordered an investigation. The public opinion is that Chae should be the father because the Chosun Ilbo would be too crazy to disclose this story without firm evidences to shame the head of U.S. version of FBI.

Mr.Chae has practiced break dancing skills, belting out a Michael Jackson song at a karaoke bar. “♬Billie Jean is Not My Lover, …, She Says I Am The One, But The Kid Is Not My Son. ♬” With the resignation last Friday, Chae is now about to learn slow dancing, humming Frank Sinatra’s My Way. “♬ And Now, The End Is Near. ♬”

[출처] 올드팝 프랭크 시나트라(Frank Sinatra) - My Way(마이웨이) 노래가사/듣기/가사해석|작성자 쏭

Gay film director Kim Jho Kwang-soo openly married his longtime lover at a bridge in Seoul, though same sex marriage is not legal in Korea. Both men made clear they were pioneering in a society where traditional values keep many homosexuals from coming out. “Now people can not but call us a married couple as we have had a wedding. We want to let people know gays can marry, too, in our society,” said 49 years old Kim. Korea being a traditional Confucius society, there are extremely small number of gays and lesbians compared to other nations, and they thus have been subject to hate crimes. 

 A Metaldyne U.S.A employee visiting Korea first time many years ago thought Korea was more paradise to homosexuals than San Francisco when he saw a few men slow dancing each other at a night club. Don’t get Koreans wrong. It is perfectly O.K. for straight people slow dance with the same sex as I also slow danced with my male friends at college. I work for Metaldyne Korea, not FAG Korea.

The Korean government expanded an import ban on fish from 8 areas surrounding Fukushima which is leaking contaminated water into the ocean as countermeasures to curb falling fish sales in Korea .Recent fear of radiation led Korean consumers to stop buying even locally caught fish, suspecting deception. E-Mart saw fish sales drop 3.1% lat month when the news about more contamination spread. Other Fish market owners lament this is the first time in memory that fish price is going lower before Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving holidays, when demand and price usually surge. Japanese government is protesting the ban, and plans to takes the case to WTO.

 Mutants can be born if people get too much of radiation, and the fish from Fukushima might have begun to take tolls on Koreans. Just look at the gay couple who married openly for the first time in Korea last week. 

After the G-20 meeting in Russia, President Park Geun-hye visited Vietnam. She met with President Truong Tan Sang to agree on increasing trade from $20 billion in 2012 up to $70 billion by 2020 and FTA by 2014, and paid her respects at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, laying flowers at the tomb of the communist leader her father tried to kill by sending over 325K South Korean troops during the Vietnam War. She also played a model, walking down the catwalk in Korean costume at Hanbok and Ao Dai fashion show in Hanoi. 

Though South Korea and Vietnam were in war in the past,  Vietnam is now called a nation of “in-law” to Koreans as many Korean grooms marry brides from Vietnam, over 52,000 brides so far, the 2nd most after those from China. It seems Koreans have not received full radiation despite the fish from Fukushima as there has been no Korean man marrying a Vietnam man yet.

Mark Hall, head of marketing at Hyundai Motor Europe, announced ‘Product Momentum 2017’ at Frankfurt Motor Show last week. The plan is to reach 5 percent market share in Europe by rolling out 22 new models over the next four years. A Hyundai source said, while most of the 22 models would be replacements like the next generation i10 that premiered in the auto show, there can be new products like a subcompact SUV that can debut as early as 2016. Most of i10 models will be supplied from Hyundai’s Izmit plant in Turkey. Hyundai has seen its sales grow nearly 10% annually in the past two years in Europe, reaching 3.4% in 2012, but has seen some flatness in 2013 with 3.5% so far.

While Hyundai was cocky and confident in Frankfurt, its sister Kia had a major disaster. The plan was to have Kia’s new concept electric car Niro roll onto the stage from behind the curtain when music stops, but nothing showed up even after the future oriented music ended.  A few minutes later after many of the auto journalists gone already, Niro finally came on to the stage after being lifted by four muscle men as its battery has gone out. The dental clinics around Hyundai-Kia headquarter in Seoul is busy hiring more nurses, expecting a surge of patients with broken teeth.

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H.S.