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<div style="font-family: arial; ">Many thanks to Stephen Epstein for sparking a most useful debate.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; ">I fully share his concerns.</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial; ">In perhaps parallel vein, I found myself similarly outraged by a new</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; ">video game. Am I over-reacting, or is this also reprehensible</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; ">and something which should concern the Koreanist community?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; ">- not many of whom, I'd hazard, are familiar with this popular genre.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; ">(And yes, Don, I know it's a free country.) See the first link below. </div>
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<div style="font-family: arial; ">Kind regards</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; ">Aidan FC</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Cambria;color:black">Aidan Foster-Carter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Cambria;color:black">Honorary Senior Research Fellow in
Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</span></i><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Candara; color:black">Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Candara;color:black">29 March, 2011<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black">I get all steamed up about a video nasty. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Just a game? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Homefront</i>’s
sick, stupid Korean invasion fantasy. </b>At <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">38North</i>: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://38north.org/2011/03/homefront/">http://38north.org/2011/03/homefront/</a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Candara;color:black">16 March<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Lee versus Lee: A phoney war in
Seoul</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Asia Times Online</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Candara;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC16Dg02.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC16Dg02.html</a></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Candara;color:black">9 March<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Korea's pulpit bullies take aim at
Islam <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Asia Times Online </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Not my choice of headline, which
was “Protestants protest: South Korea’s church militant”)</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Candara;color:black">4 March<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">North Koreans: Still hungry. Who
cares?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Asia
Times Online </i></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC04Dg01.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC04Dg01.html</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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