Today, we’re excited to introduce and announce the launch of koreaBANG, featuring original reports and translations of Korean internet news, trends, and pop culture, as well as translations of Korean netizen comments and reactions to the issues of the day in the world’s most wired country.
It’s like chinaSMACK…but for Korea.
Behind koreaBANG is an international team of Koreans and non-Koreans who are dedicated to providing the same broadly accessible, entertaining, and “raw” reporting of modern Korean society, through what becomes popular and what gets talked about online by Koreans themselves.
They fashion themselves as the “little sister site” to chinaSMACK.
“Oppa~~~!!!”
On koreaBANG right now:
- CEO of explosives company argues his arrest would hurt Korea’s economy, fails.
- Korean girl idol has wardrobe malfunction, netizens cry publicity stunt.
- False advertising of Korean pizza chains exposed, cheese discovered to be fake.
- Rumors of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s death spread worldwide.
- Korean girls write political messages on their boobs, protest jailed podcaster.
koreaBANG will be updated daily, so be sure to bookmark it. You can also subscribe to the koreaBANG RSS feed, get email updates, like them on Facebook, or follow them on Twitter.
Please take a moment to go visit koreaBANG and show the koreaBANG crew some support.
Bragging rights go to the first chinaSMACK commenter to “sofa” koreaBANG.
Finally, if you’re interested in joining the team, send us an email introducing yourself and how you’d like to get involved. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.
@pada Pretty easy to count welts (that have since turned into bruises), especially the ones that were split open from being struck so hard. @DeVitaVackra Fo ...more »
so when is this liberation going to happen? ...more »
The videos of the Taiwan betel nut girl were more upsetting. Her Wretch page had four characters on the right side that translated in English to "I remember ...more »
What do you mean? I looked through the comments on Sina Weibo. These were the earlier comments and in roughly the same proportion. ...more »
I hate communist, I hate corruption and I hate to hate people who hates to hate that hates ...more »
Right, the prediction part was just a joke. ...more »
They're propaganda, meant to illustrate the changes and improvements to China that the Communists have brought after taking over China from the KMT (who fled to ...more »
Why the cartoon have no China winning the soccer world cup after communist take over ? China football was ahead of Korean and Japan before 1950 even defeat th ...more »
All good intentions and that's why I think the CPC is great, they truly want the best for China. ...more »
This guy, Yang Rui is such a poor interviewer. I watched his dialogue show where he asks the most basic questions and tries to stir up the China-West rivalry. ...more »