Cullen Thomas’ Brother One Cell makes for compelling reading on both Korea and prison life
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American woman gets financially fleeced by male Asian lover
The Good Manner: Advice on Asia from WoWasis’ Pa Farang Today’s question: Do women ever get financially robbed by male Asian lovers? Dear Pa Farang, We’ve all heard dozens/hundreds/thousands of stories about western guys getting cheated out of their money by Asian gals. I’m curious, does the opposite ever happen? Do western women ever get […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘The Korean War: a History,’ by Bruce Cumings
There are an awful lot of books on the history of the Korean War. So many, in fact, that it’s confusing determining which one to pick. The best we here at WoWasis have read, as well the shortest (at 243 pages of text), is Bruce Cumings’ The Korean War: a History (2010, ISBN 978-0-679-64357-9). The […]
Read the rest of this entry »Visit Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) for a Cold War historical experience that remains alive today
The DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) separating South Korea from North Korea remains open to visitors on security-enabled tours, despite continued action in the area
Read the rest of this entry »Korean Comfort Woman confronts Japan at her Korean embassy in Seoul, 24 x 7, 365 days a year
the placement of a sculpture of a Korean comfort woman outside Japan’s embassy in Seoul plays havoc with Japanese sensibilities
Read the rest of this entry »The worlds’ wackiest torture museum, in Seoul South Korea
Wacky Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul, South Korea takes the blue ribbon has being the craziest torture museum in the world, a tribute to both its exhibits and its patrons. The truth is sobering. This prison, opened in 1908, was eventually used as a torture and execution venue by both the Japanese and by […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachelor in Bangkok: Khun Lee on how not and why not to overpay Thai women
You can go broke really fast by paying too much for dating Thai women
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Sex at the Margins’ by Laura María Agustín
The author of this book on the prostitution “rescue industry” caught our eye here on a WoWasis blog post earlier this year, when we reported this comment in her own blog, quoted from a Thai women’s organization: We have now reached a point in history where there are more women in the Thai sex industry being […]
Read the rest of this entry »Man jailed in Thailand for turning dead foetuses into Goomarn Thong icons
Here at WoWasis, we’ve always been fascinated by the statues and images found on the ‘hing,’ or altar, found in many Thai houses and businesses. Goomarn Thong is one of these, representing a dead baby. On May 28, the Bangkok Post reported that a man has been jailed for gold-leafing six dead foetuses, transforming them […]
Read the rest of this entry »The tuk-tuk driver took me on a wild goose chase in Bangkok
The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: The tuk-tuk driver took me on a wild goose chase Dear Pa Farang, I agreed to pay a tuk-tuk driver 50 baht to go to a temple. Instead, he drove us around to two different gem shops.you to gem shops, and finally […]
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