<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Well, at least you're not getting excited about a bunch of girls worrying about the looks of their legs.</DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Don</DIV>
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<DIV>--- On <B>Wed, 3/30/11, afostercarter@aol.com <I><afostercarter@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: afostercarter@aol.com <afostercarter@aol.com><BR>Subject: [KS] Just a game? Homefront’s sick, stupid Korean invasion fantasy<BR>To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<BR>Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 8:46 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv329376043><FONT color=black size=2 face=arial><FONT class=yiv329376043Apple-style-span face=arial>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT> 
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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>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"><BR></DIV>
<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>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Kind regards</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Aidan FC</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Aidan Foster-Carter</SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black"></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8pt" lang=EN-GB> </SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8pt" lang=EN-GB></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB>Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea (mostly):</SPAN></I></B></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB> </SPAN></I></B></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB>29 March, 2011<SPAN>   </SPAN></SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>I get all steamed up about a video nasty. <B>Just a game? <I>Homefront</I>’s sick, stupid Korean invasion fantasy. </B>At <I>38North</I>: <B><SPAN> </SPAN></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://38north.org/2011/03/homefront/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://38north.org/2011/03/homefront/</A></SPAN><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB> </SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB>16 March<SPAN>              </SPAN></SPAN></I><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Lee versus Lee: A phoney war in Seoul</SPAN></B><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><SPAN>  </SPAN>Asia Times Online</SPAN></I><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB></SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC16Dg02.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC16Dg02.html</A></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB>9 March<SPAN>                </SPAN></SPAN></I><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Korea's pulpit bullies take aim at Islam <SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></B><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Asia Times Online </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html</A> <SPAN>      </SPAN>(Not my choice of headline, which was “Protestants protest: South Korea’s church militant”)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" class=yiv329376043MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Candara; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-GB>4 March<SPAN>    </SPAN></SPAN></I><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>North Koreans: Still hungry. Who cares?</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><SPAN>   </SPAN><I>Asia Times Online </I></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC04Dg01.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC04Dg01.html</A><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></I></SPAN></DIV>
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