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[Alyssa]

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200901/200901290003.html


How do they come up with these things?? They finally found a korean that had something 'important' to do for the U.S's inaug. day.........


he made a hat

but he is korean!!! And this makes the front news of the chosun paper.


how did they find this out, is there some kind of hotline where koreans have a 24/7 watch so that they can call in whenever a kperson 'does something' "IMPORTANT". does it make them all feel.....IMPORTANT??




The Korean Who Crowned Queen of Soul's Obama Moment


Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, created a sensation within a sensation when she performed at U.S. President Barack Obama�s inauguration wearing a distinctive gray hat with a big ribbon studded with costume jewelry. The riddle of the hat was soon solved,

AP on Monday reported it was designed by Korean-American Luke Song (36). His family has run the Mr Song Millinery in Detroit for 25 years, and Franklin has been a customer for about 20 of them.

She dropped by the shop and showed Song the coat she planned to wear for the inauguration, asking him for help with the hat. Song's solution set her back a cool US$500 for the special bespoke version. The standard satin ribbon version is available for $179.

Song says he has been getting floods of calls from men who wanted to buy the hat for their wife, mother, or grandmother after watching Franklin's performance.

[Xuanzang]

eww looks like a giant bow tie.

[theholyinnocent]

To be fair, it's not like the Korean paper went digging for something obscure -- the hat guy was blogged in the NY Times, too: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/kits-aretha-post/

Oddly, there's this hat designer in NYC who is constantly obsessed over by so-called "hat people," by which I mean "people who actually spend more than $10 on hats;" and she's also Korean, I think. http://www.eugeniakim.com/

It would seem that Koreans have conquered the expensive hat market, in the US at least.

[moosehead]

considering how the media ridiculed the hat, I'm surprised anyone would have taken credit for it!!

[NoExplode]

I think this is newsworthy. Completely innocuous, and merits the blurb it got.

[Goku]

Quite honestly I like the hat.
It really suits a classy woman in her 40's.

Really gives me an American 50's feel too. Something that is royalty and has a slight British flavor to it.

[kiwiduncan]

If it was a kiwi who designed that hat lots of New Zealand newspapers would also get excited about it.

Though that design is not my cup of tea, hats off to him I say.

[Real Reality]

Just a drop of Korean blood enough for news media
by Brian Lee, JoongAng Daily (May 27, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2574068

[crossmr]

Please Canada does the same damn thing all the time. It drives me nuts. Every time there is some remotely large news story out of the US they media outlets are all clamoring to find "the canadian connection" and report it as fast as they can.

Turns out Mrs Smith who lived on Pike street once had breakfast with a guy who read about that train derailment in new york. We'll have her story next.

[endo]

I enjoy hating on Korea as much as the next guy but I seriously don't see the problem with this article.


Some poster just seem to enjoy bitching and moaning and Alyssa is at the top of this list. Girl, what in heavens name are you still doing posting on Daves.

Seriously, are you disturbed or something?

[Kimchieluver]

Alyssa misses me. She is just trying to get my attention.

[Alyssa]

[endo]

If your idea of karma involves a trade off of calling out your stupidity for my death by a blue van, then again, are you f-ing insane?

Crazy f-ing bitch.