This week’s digest *Korean seafood *Sino-Chinese relations *South Korean defects to North *Korean bear farms in Vietnam *”The Chineses are COMING!!!” *Languages other than English on the internet *Me making tteok So I lied about when this would go up. On Tuesday night my department went out for 회 (u ...
Oh dear. The animal huggers (is that the right term?) are all up in arms again because Barack Obama killed a fly that was pestering him during a TV interview. Boo freaking hoo. PETA went to all the trouble of mailing Obama a “ Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher” humane fly catching trap and released a pu ...
Black bear. Photo courtesy of " EcoToursVictoria.com" For years, I was under the impression that the countries supplying and consuming the most wildlife are somewhere else on the globe. I thought Americans were too well-read, too aware to play a huge part in the wildlife trade. I worried about Afric ...
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By most estimations, most folks wouldn’t risk going to jail for this. But Seongja Hyun, a Korean national living in Los Angeles, isn’t like most folks. She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on federal charges of importing nearly a kilogram of bear bile har ...
It’s easy to benefit weight, though it is difficult to remove weight. It is unfit to attain if we do not take it serious. However, if we have the tiny willpower as well as the great strategy, losing weight is not as tough as we think. And after we attain with weight loss, if we do not go upon with y ...
Have you ever heard about the plight of the sun bear, in particular, but some other species of bear as well? They are put in a cage where they cannot move, their bile is continually drained from their stomachs through a permanent wound for their entire lives. Often, each paw is harvested, while they ...
