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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Aidan,<BR>
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Ask A Korean is an excellent site... It is a Korean (in the US) who answers questions from Westerners.<BR>
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<a href="http://askakorean.blogspot.com/">http://askakorean.blogspot.com/</a><BR>
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Charles...<BR>
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On 8/21/08 9:23 PM, "Afostercarter@aol.com" <Afostercarter@aol.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Book Antiqua"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Dear friends and colleagues,<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Now that the blogosphere is so active, especially in South Korea,<BR>
I wonder: <B>Are there any <U>Koreans</U></B></SPAN></FONT><B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> who blog, <U>in English</U>, to<BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>comment on and explain matters Korean to a global audience<BR>
which still remains overwhelmingly ignorant of Korea?<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Despite the volume and intensity of Koreans' own online debates,<BR>
the English-language blogs known to me are exclusively expatriate.<BR>
With all respect to the Marmot et al (<FONT COLOR="#008000">www.rj<B>koehler</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>.com</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>), it would <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>be good - nay, it's essential - to have specifically Korean perspectives<BR>
as well; perhaps especially at this time of much misunderstanding.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>I hope this is just my own ignorance, and would welcome all<BR>
enlightenment, leads, tips, URLs, etc.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Best wishes<BR>
Aidan<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Aidan Foster-Carter<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
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