A wonderful week for Korea (not)

Life has been pretty boring in the personal sphere, but it has been a bad week for Korea overall. Since most of the people reading this are not overly acquainted with Korean politics I'll keep it pretty simple. First off, the ex-president, who is being investigated aggressively for corruption by the current president, committed suicide.  The investigation was subsequently called off. I'm going to go ahead and say that this is bad for Korea's reputation, not to mention sending a bad message about suicide. . Not going to help a country whe's trying to shake an image of political corruption and backwardness. Not going to help a country with a epidemic of suicide. 

(If you wanna read some more detail, this is a more detailed blog about it -->  http://roboseyo.blogspot.com/2009/05/ex-pres-rohs-suicide-wrong-in-so-many.html)

And the other thing which I'm sure you've heard in the news, is that North Korea did another nuclear test, underground, and then launched two missile tests swiftly after. Lovely. So far since I've been here, NKorea's stuff mostly just sets off rounds off political rhetoric from Seoul and Tokyo. You don't see much effect on your day to day life. Read BBC if you want some more details  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8068619.stm

The worst part (aside from the human tragedy of the suicide, and the global instability our Northern friends are causing of course) is that the Won (Korean currency) has dropped like a rock. And I have to send money home every month to pay some bills. Booooooo!