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[koreaguides]

8 Popular Men’s Fashion Styles Seen In K-Dramas

1. Kim Seon Ho 

In Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, Kim Seon ho’s fashion is casual and practical. You will often see him wearing a t-shirt, plaid shirt, and jeans. 

The main point of his style is that he rarely buttons up his shirts. Because the checkered patterns are colorful and diverse, it never gets boring. 

2. Park Seo Joon 

In Itaewon Class, Park Seo Joon often wears oversized items, especially bomber jackets in deep tones, that show his masculinity. 

He completes this edgy, street look by layering with dark hoodies and wearing combat boots. 

3. Park Seo Joon 

Unlike the stubborn, hard Park Saeroyi, Park Seo Joon plays a seemingly narcisstic chairman with a luxurious, clean style in What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim. 

He often wears a full suit with a tie and completes the look with a very fancy pocket scarf. 

4. Lee Min Ho 

Lee Min Ho often plays a chaebol, a word used to describe the super-rich in Korea. 

In The King Eternal Monarch, he completes this look by wearing a long coat or trench coat paired with a turtleneck sweater, creating a classic and luxurious style. 

5. Gong Yoo 

In Goblin, Gong Yoo also dresses luxuriously in long coats and turtlenecks. 

Unlike Lee Min Ho, Gong Yoo is portrayed more warmly, and you will see many scenes of him wearing sweaters and cardigans to create a sweet, friendly look. 

6. Cha Eun Woo 

Cha Eun woo’s image in My ID Is Gangnam Beauty is a gentle, sweet, and almost perfect guy. That’s why his fashion style in this drama is quite simple and causal. 

His most worn outfit is usually slacks and a button down shirt. The shirt is neatly tucked in, making him look and professional. 

7. Hwang In Yeop 

Hwang In Yeop perfectly portrays the bad boy in True Beauty with his big leather jackets, chain necklace, and silver earrings. 

He looks extremely trendy and sets the standard for the bad boy style. 

8. Lee Do Hyun

The drama Youth of May is set around an extremely important event in Korean history - the democratization of Gwangju in May 1980. Lee Do Hyun recreated the style of the youth at that time. 

The most typical of Lee Do Hyun’s retro outfits is jeans with a button down shirt and belt. 

[intothestacks]

An extension for library and book lovers

Library Extension allows you to see if your library has a book you're interested in and put a hold on it without having to go to the library site to do it.

They have extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

The extension works for several dozen countries, so it's worth checking if your country is included.

You then select which country subdivision you live in and which library systems you want to add the extension to.

Once the library is added in, when you go to shopping sites like Amazon, you should see on the side whether the library has any copies of the book!

[bfpnola]

a story about conflict kitchen, a restaurant that used to serve ONLY food from places the united states was in “conflict” with. a story about art as a form of resistance. resource mentioned at the end to read through interviews with real Palestinian children.

[sol1562]

Simply because he spoke against I*rael. He's an activist who came from humble background and speaks against injustice. Of course they put him under hit list. Hope he recovers soon.

And south Korea really should get out of US influence. Nothing good happens when uncle Sam touches your country.

[futurebritishgentleman]

hey layton fandom you should totally look into oshinui/cotton doll art spaces if you haven’t already. there’s an enormous amount of resources like free sewing patterns and video tutorials to make a doll of your blorbos

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

america has spent the last several decades with its focus on the middle east. i'm hoping in the coming years we see a shift in focus to the americas (north and south) and asia.

monroe doctrine 2.0

[the-lady-maddy]

[laisai]

Hello, family member of survivors of communism and people who actually lived in public apartments here.

THEY WERE SHIT.

I cannot express to you how much living under communist rule is shit. It doesn't matter if the IRL regimes didn't live up to the ideals -- SO MANY human rights have to be trampled over and so many people have to be hurt for the system to even be ATTEMPTED in the first place (and revolution mostly just KILLS PEOPLE and replaces who's at the top for a while -- the elites in China these days may often have peasant ancestors but look at the way they live, and look at how the rest of the country lives -- the inequality is still staggering, and it was even before the PRC opened up to market economies again).

Communism is nice as a theory, can be useful for looking at and understanding systems in the world, but it is ultimately unsuitable for governance.

I am a leftist in America and support socialist-leaning policies but dear fucking gods DO NOT bring up communism like it's an actual fucking solution to me. It's like telling a Jewish person to give fascism a try.

companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it’s not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭

[thedalatribune]

© Paolo Dala

KOICA IWRM Capacity-building Last Stop: 대청댐

The last stop (Literally last stop, we went here before heading for the airport.) of K water's IWRM High-level Training for Decision Makers/Managers was the Daecheong Dam (대청댐)... A multi-purpose gravity dam in the Geum River that has a storage capacity of 1.49 trillion liters.

[koreaguides]

6 K-Pop Idols Who Break Korea’s Beauty Standards

1. Jessi 

Jessi would be the last person to play by anyone’s rules. Jessi is bold and beautiful and people love her for that. With her tanned skin and voluptuous body, she adheres to no Korean beauty standards and is absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. She has even spoken vocally about her cosmetics surgeries and is loved by fans for being raw and unapologetic in her approach to life be it on or off camera. 

2. Stray Kids Changbin 

Nothing wrong with Chang Bin’s visuals but sometimes it’s not acceptable to the current beauty norms of K-pop. His sharp chin gives him a killer jawline but the people still say it’s too pointed. Even his short height makes him not fit into the ideal Korean beauty standards but nevertheless, he is still one of the best rapper of this generation. 

3. Mamamoo Hwasa 

Hwasa is a powerhouse on stage with her beautiful curvy body. It is no surprise that she is on the list due to the backlash she receives for her bold outfit choices. She may not have the ideal slim body, pale flawless skin, or big eyes, but it is her unique look that makes her even more attractive. 

4. Seventeen Woozi 

Woozi doesn’t fit into the Korean beauty standards with his 164 cm of height. His noble size difference when compared to his other members is actually quite cute and endearing, plus he is extremely talented and an excellence performer. You clearly don’t need to be towering over other idols to prove your talent.

5. Twice Jihyo 

Jihyo wasn’t spared. Due to having a slightly large frame than her members, she was called fat even though she was far from that and her tanned skin was not appreciated too. But now this girl is going against all odds and embracing her body and giving us god-tier visuals in every comeback. 

6. BTS Jimin 

Jimin is known for having small eyes. He’s shown fans that he’s not handsome despite them, but rather because of them. While having big eyes and double eyelids is the standard in Korea, Jimin is one of the few idols who have small, monolid eyes. 

[gaym3bo1]

yay! agust d tour dvd! wait- is that- ah yes of course i will pay 80$ plus 60$ shipping for a FUCKING DIGITAL CODE TO DOWNLOAD UNSPECIFIED CLIPS WITH MY SHITTY WIFI

[meshiitsukaii]

Wait we had a war with Korea??

In all seriousness though, it is hard for people to learn about something when they don't know it happened. And not many people think to research this kind of thing, even if they should!! History is a sort of non-tangible idea to many people rather then the very real reality that impacts all of us. And people will often prioritize their daily lives over researching something they view that way.

This is of course, me being very charitable. I just want to highlight that it can also be out of lack of access to information/resources and having different priorities. It is still VERY important to educate yourself on what you can and we want to encourage learning about things like this even on a surface level!

There is obviously people who don't want to learn or see it as irrelevant which is equal parts sad and Incredibly frustrating.

And then there's people like the Twitter OP. People who KNOW at least the base level of the war and choose to be obtuse and daft about it. I think we can ALL agree on throttling them because

ALL WAR IS BAD, DIPSHIT!

every day i feel driven insane by the self assured incurious cruelty of liberal americans lmao. is killing literally 1/3 of a countrys population with carpet bombing somehow a good war? a huge portion of american society is completely incapable of perceiving the rest of the worlds population as human in the same way as them

[bfpnola]

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[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Year - 2023 Edition

Welcome to our special edition newsletter recapping the best news from the past year. I've picked one highlight from each month to give you a snapshot of 2023. No frills, just straightforward news that mattered. Let's relive the good stuff that made our year shine.

January - London: Girl with incurable cancer recovers after pioneering treatment

A girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body after what scientists have described as the most sophisticated cell engineering to date.

2. February - Utah legislature unanimously passes ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy

The Utah State Legislature has unanimously approved a bill that enshrines into law a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy.

3. March - First vaccine for honeybees could save billions

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the world’s first-ever vaccine intended to address the global decline of honeybees. It will help protect honeybees from American foulbrood, a contagious bacterial disease which can destroy entire colonies.

4. April - Fungi discovered that can eat plastic in just 140 days

Australian scientists have successfully used backyard mould to break down one of the world's most stubborn plastics — a discovery they hope could ease the burden of the global recycling crisis within years. 

5. May - Ocean Cleanup removes 200,000th kilogram of plastic from the Pacific Ocean

The Dutch offshore restoration project, Ocean Cleanup, says it has reached a milestone. The organization's plastic catching efforts have now fished more than 200,000 kilograms of plastic out of the Pacific Ocean, Ocean Cleanup said on Twitter.

6. June - U.S. judge blocks Florida ban on care for trans minors in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’

A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment.

7. July - World’s largest Phosphate deposit discovered in Norway

A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 50 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.

8. August - Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

If the claim by Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim of South Korea’s Quantum Energy Research Centre holds up, the material could usher in all sorts of technological marvels, such as levitating vehicles and perfectly efficient electrical grids.

9. September - World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials

The ability to regrow your own teeth could be just around the corner. A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are getting set to start human trials on a new drug that has successfully grown new teeth in animal test subjects.

10. October - Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize.

11. November - No cases of cancer caused by HPV in Norwegian 25-year olds, the first cohort to be mass vaccinated for HPV.

Last year there were zero cases of cervical cancer in the group that was vaccinated in 2009 against the HPV virus, which can cause the cancer in women.

12. December - President Biden announces he’s pardoning all convictions of federal marijuana possession

President Joe Biden announced Friday he's issuing a federal pardon to every American who has used marijuana in the past, including those who were never arrested or prosecuted.

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And there you have it – a year's worth of uplifting news! I hope these positive stories brought a bit of joy to your inbox. As I wrap up this special edition, I want to thank all my supporters!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[radicallicious]

why did i have to be born poor and in a country with a weak passport......

[reportwire]

The heavily armed DMZ separating North and South Korea has become a wildlife haven | CNN

CNN  —  Between North and South Korea lies the demilitarized zone (DMZ), one of the world’s most heavily armed borders. The 160-mile stretch is barred with fences and landmines and is largely empty of human activity. But that isolation has inadvertently turned the area into a haven for wildlife. Google released street view images of the DMZ for the first time this week, offering a rare glimpse…