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[FDNY]

MOD EDIT

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/books/excerpt-cleanest-race.html?pagewanted=all

B.R. Myers was born in New Jersey and raised in Bermuda, South Africa and Germany. He has a Ph.D. in North Korean Studies from the University of T�bingen in Germany. His books include Han Sorya and North Korean Literature (Cornell East Asia Series, 1994) and A Reader's Manifesto (Melville House, 2002). At present he directs the international studies department at Dongseo University in South Korea. In addition to writing literary criticism for the American magazine The Atlantic, of which he is a contributing editor, Myers regularly contributes articles on North Korea to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and academic publications.

[Who's Your Daddy?]

Here's an hour long lecture, if you can't be bothered to read.

www.c-spanvideo.org/program/292562-1

[NilesQ]

I thought this was going to be a thread on personal hygene!

[bish]

Think this is the most interesting book I have read on Korea. Not only because of it's commentary on the North but also it's focus on how Koreans on both sides of the border believe themselves to be an innocent childlike race, incapable of doing bad unless guided to do so by foreigners (see MBC last week).

There are also some interesting points made in the early sections about how much of the modern nationalism and sense of Koreans being this "cleanest race" was encouraged by the Japanese early in their occupation of Korea.

Might go and read this again actually...

[GoldMember]

One way of staying clean is not to allow saliva to stay in your mouth but to spit it out.

[tideout]

The video is great and I'd highly recommend people take a look at the video if not the book.

I posted links to this video last year when things heated up with N. Korea. He's much more balanced on the condition of things in N. Korea than I think gets presented in the mainstream media. Unfortunately, I think there are more desk-warming generals here than those interested in reading a solid book....maybe just my bias.

Thanks for posting this again.

[Squire]