it's got that Showa-era polite/cheery television sensibility that I adore

they recently replaced the host of this program, who used to be a white lady who iirc would often wear cat ears and elongate every English word for hyper-clarity. bring her back!!

not a maybe, it’s a definite lol

both the Korean left and right love to create AI puppet videos of their dead political idols talking about present issues. grim stuff!

and I can't figure out what AI tools and companies they have domestically to make them so confident!

both countries have hitched all their eggs into the AI basket, and it's quite scary to think what happens if there is a bubble that'll pop. and yeah everyone seems cool with AI slop to the degree Americans (by large) still are not

Wang Fuk Court's contractor allegedly covered all the windows in foamboard x.com/heunggong101...

So how does concrete high rises catch on fire? In Hong Kong, traditional scaffolding is made from bamboo scaffolds and covered in nylon mesh. www.cnn.com/style/articl...

think this is the only movie worth its salt and the standard-bearer of the Korean Manchurian Western. others are less fun esp if you don't get all the anti-Japanese references

is it no surprise that South Korean movie directors have been making Westerns based in 1930s Manchuria bsky.app/profile/kapt...

by my napkin math (using a roughly average 2005 KRW: USD exchange rate of 1010:1), Yoon Byung-so, the widower who sued Seoul Metro for his wife's death, was compensated roughly $250K USD. a lot of money in SK, yes, but nowhere in realm of 82 MILLION US DOLLARS www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...