A coworker purchased these weird post cards at Insadong this summer. The URL on the other side is; blueninja.biz, which has a lot of other strange art available.
Gizmodo has an excellent array of Kim Jong-il photos; In Which We Provoke Kim Jong Il in 77 Offensive and Hilarious Ways. Some are sure to become often used classics.
- #Missed it on the 30th as I was working late, but it's now been four years since DPRK Studies has been in blog format.
- #From the Japan Times: "Yasushi Chimura and his wife, Fukie, abducted by North Korea in 1978 but repatriated in 2002, expressed relief Friday that their children [now ages 27, 25, and 21] are adapting smoothly to Japanese life as they marked the fifth anniversary of their arrival in Japan."
- #Via the NYT: "Former President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea, who had been under criminal investigation for corruption, died on Saturday from a fall while hiking on a hill near his retirement home... it was unclear whether the fall was accidental or whether Mr. Roh had committed suicide ... Roh left a will, indicating that the death might have been a suicide." While the man never should have been president, it's sad to see what likely was a suicide.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
How old are these post cards? It looks like something from the 60’s.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
The photos look to be from the 60s, but they were bought in July, brand new.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Hey, that kid was me!
As for the first card, I blame increasing use of drugs by graphic artists in ROK.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
no james.
that was me!
i know because at that time my mom started listening to bob marley and she was knitting a rasta scarf.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
The second one is Yoon Jeong-hee, Baek Gun-woo’s wife.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
OMG. South Korea has discovered irony. LOL.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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November 4th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Well, if you replace knitting woman with a man, that really would be me.
I only wrote that because I was a gun nut even growing up in ROK (I used to shoot air rifles).
Now, as I told Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, I do not know how many guns I have exactly. Too many according to some, not enough by my count.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Richard: Thank you for sharing these postcards. By any chance, does your coworker remember at what store in Insadong he (or she) bought these postcards? I visited Insadong several times last month, but I never saw these.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
According to Sandra (see trackback link above):
November 6th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Thank you, Richardson, and thank you, Sandra.
PS — Sorry I misspelled your name earlier.
November 28th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
james: She’s not knitting a scarf
That looks like a gigantic hat, or more likely a sweater knit in the round.
December 9th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Wow! that is amazing cards!
That postcard probably printed even beforeI was born.
I think that is definetly from 70’s or 80’s.
In-Sa-Dong is the place you can buy old Korean stuff, not
a brand-new postcard.
If you go to Dong-Dae-Moon or Myoung-Dong
you could probably find better ones. haha