Super-Amazing Video Full Of Super-Amazingness (And Ramen) @2:25 PM
This Korean ad for ramen in which the group Girl's Generation sings the theme to classic videogame "Bubble Bobble" is burning up the Internets right now, and for good reason: Ramen, videogames, Korean advertising, girl groups—it's like a checklist for virality! Please do enjoy. [Via Brooklyn Radio via Idolator via, uh, our Business Guy's blog. And so the circle is unbroken.] 16
Unreluctant To Offer Strategic Consumption Information @12:40 PM
Service alert! Awl COO/Dude Who Is Hustling The Money David Cho is currently suggesting places to eat in Seoul. Feel free to ask for further suggestions! 13
Samsung Cell Phones Will Kill You Least Fast @12:30 PM
The Environmental Working Group, which is totally a real place and not like when you tell people you're an "architect," checked out the radiation levels of over a 1,000 cell phone models and confirmed what I've always suspected-Koreans are awesome and everyone should be grateful. SoKo company Samsung captured 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th with LG nabbing 8th place for lowest radiation emission levels but I'm loathe to report the Motorola RAZR (hisssssss Japaneeeeese), that paragon of canny design that ensures thick layers of face sebum be all up on as much surface area as possible at all times while possessing the acoustics of two Siggi yogurt cups and a bit of butcher's twine, is in second place. READ MORE 15
News From All Over: Jaebeom Has Left the Building @4:41 PM
American-born Korean pop star Park JaeBeom (or, as he's known in Seattle, Jay Park), who is basically the Lance Bass—hmm, well, the Nick Carter, maybe—of Korea, has fled that country, after petitions circulated on the Internet that he should kill himself. Why? Because he wrote on his MySpace that "Korea is gay…. I hate Koreans." Um, and he wrote them a few years ago, when he was 15 or so. Now his boyband 2PM is in deep trouble! And they've been together for a whole year! This is the most dramatic departure from a country since Roman Polanski, as the shrieking girls in this video can attest. Love it! 2
I wanted to get Cho to dress up as one, but Choire told me it was racist. @3:51 PM
No matter how bad you have it right now, you're still probably better off than the 'seal men' of South Korea. "The only things lower are the cigarette butts and the sewer grates." 5
