MontanaRon » world http://montanaron.com/wordpress Just another ordinary English teacher eclectic expat blog about nothing in particular. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:45:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Royal Wedding http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/05/01/royal-wedding-2394 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/05/01/royal-wedding-2394#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:03 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2394 Oh, yeah, I forgot to ask. Did any of you watch the wedding on Friday? With an estimated viewing audience of two billion, I’m sure a few of you must have. I watched it for, let’s see, about 5 hours. Yeah, I watched the whole thing, including pre- and post-wedding coverage. I switched channels between [...] Related posts:
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According to this Wikipedia article, more than 31% of Korea’s electricity production is supplied by nuclear power. That’s more than any other country [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/03/18/south-koreas-nuclear-reactors-2352/feed 1 No Effects of Japanese ‘Quake in Yeosu http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/03/11/no-effects-of-japanese-quake-in-yeosu-2349 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/03/11/no-effects-of-japanese-quake-in-yeosu-2349#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:18:43 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2349 I just finished jogging and turned on the television to CNN and found out about the HUGE 8.9 earthquake in Japan. A live helicopter feed from northern Japan is showing rising water from a tsunami going up river and flooding some farmland, and fires that have broken out in the background. Quite a scary sight. [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/03/11/no-effects-of-japanese-quake-in-yeosu-2349/feed 0 North and South at it Again http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/18/north-and-south-at-it-again-2115 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/18/north-and-south-at-it-again-2115#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:38:12 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2115 A few days ago I received a warning from the U.S. Embassy in Seoul as part of their emergency warning system to U.S. citizens who are enrolled in the program. The email’s subject line is “Announcement of One-Day Military Firing Exercise in Northwest Islands Off the Coast of Korea Between Dec. 18-21, 2010.”

Yes, [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/18/north-and-south-at-it-again-2115/feed 0 Korean Tension Update http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/28/korean-tension-update-2098 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/28/korean-tension-update-2098#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:31:20 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2098 Not much to report from Yeosu, but CNN earlier quoted the South Korean Yonhap News Agency as saying that the North had fired off a couple of surface-to-air missiles today. It might be an erroneous report because I haven’t heard anything more of it. Not sure what they might have fired at–the war “games” won’t [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/28/korean-tension-update-2098/feed 0 Hope http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/27/2085-2085 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/27/2085-2085#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:52:56 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2085 Hopefully, this isn’t my last post for a while. War games involving South Korea and the United States will begin tomorrow in the Yellow Sea (West Sea to South Koreans) near the line demarcating the North and South, and Crazy Uncle Kim in the North says that this will bring the peninsula to the brink [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/27/2085-2085/feed 3 Super Typhoon Megi http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/10/17/typhoon-megi-2-1977 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/10/17/typhoon-megi-2-1977#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:27:57 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=1977 Although this typhoon is nowhere near us, it’s still of great interest to me, being the extreme weather guy that I am. At the moment, it’s heading toward the northern Philippines, packing winds of 165 miles per hour and gusting to 200, according to Weather Underground .The name is contributed by Korea and it means [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/10/17/typhoon-megi-2-1977/feed 0 Bravo, Chile!! http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/10/14/bravo-chile-1967 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/10/14/bravo-chile-1967#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:52:09 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=1967 What a feel-good story. I just watched the last of the rescue workers return to the surface to complete a remarkable operation. Congratulations to everyone involved in getting the 33 trapped miners back to the top. I watched as much of CNN’s round-the-clock coverage as I could, as I’m sure many around the world did, [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/10/14/bravo-chile-1967/feed 0 Korean Culture Deadly to Thais? http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/08/27/korean-culture-deadly-to-thais-1891 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/08/27/korean-culture-deadly-to-thais-1891#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:41:57 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=1891 Here’s an article about the dangers of Korean culture for young Thailand imitators.

In the mascaraed eyes of Thai teenyboppers, South Korea is ground zero of hip.

So the writer of this article begins his story. Korean boy and girl bands, movies and soap operas are all the rage in the Land of [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/08/27/korean-culture-deadly-to-thais-1891/feed 0 . . . Crazy Too Much http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/05/15/crazy-too-much-1728 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/05/15/crazy-too-much-1728#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 07:55:14 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=1728 My Lao friend Nai, whose mother was born in Thailand and who dearly loves the country, comments on the latest turmoil there by saying “some Thai people crazy too much.” Indeed. The Land of Smiles (what a misnomer these days) seems to be on the verge of all-out civil war, at least in Bangkok, though [...] Related posts:
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