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Tajinyo: How Baseless Academic Fraud Claims Ignited a Nationwide Witch Hunt Against One of Korea’s Biggest Stars

(Posted on here from my original post on subreddit r/HobbyDrama from nearly a year ago.) Terms To Know Naver Cafe  – Naver is basically the Google of South Korea. According to Wikipedia, in September 2017, the search engine handled 74.7% of all web searches in South Korea. A Naver Cafe is similar to a subreddit, in that it is a community that can be made by any user, moderated by other users, and usually centres around a common topic or interest. Netizen  – Internet Citizen, aka an internet user. I’ve never seen it used outside of East Asian internet users, and in this post, it specifically refers to South Korean internet users. Not sure if it’s a common knowledge term or not, so I thought I’d add it here just to be sure. Note: In Korea, last names come first. So, for example, in “Shin Jung-ah”, “Shin” is the surname while “Jung-ah” is the first name. Of course, this wouldn’t apply to non-Korean names (Daniel Lee: Lee is the surname.) Note for the Kpop fans reading: Tablo refers to hi
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Review of 'Convenience Store Woman' by Sayaka Murata - My Thoughts

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  (Originally posted on April 21, 2021) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata tells the story of a thirty-six year old woman named Keiko Furukura who has been working in the same convenience store for the past eighteen years of her life. She is not married, and has never dated or had sex, nor does she have any ambition to get a ‘better’ job, or to climb the ladder and become the manager of the store she works in.  Furukura, from the get go, makes it very clear that she does not understand how one is supposed to behave in society. She recalls stories from her childhood where upon finding a dead bird she exclaims to her mother that they should bring it home and cook it, and another in which she hits a classmate over the back of the head with a shovel in order to stop him fighting another student. In both of these stories, young Furukura cannot understand why people around her scold her for her behaviour, or what she did wrong. From these formative experiences, she realizes it would be
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Kimi Wa Petto (2003), Boys Over Flowers, and Hot MILF Housewives

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Welcome one and all. Papa is back with a pop culture blog post that doesn't seem to have any overarching purpose; it's merely a passion project that I worked on for months instead of doing essays for school. This time, I have photos and gifs to aid your experience (example above.) I'm honestly not satisfied with some parts of this but I've been writing  this for so many months that I feel like if I don't post it now, it may never get posted. (Note: If I say Kimi Wa Petto without specifying 2003 or 2017, I'm talking about 2003.) Kimi Wa Petto 2003: Ahhhh.... (reminiscing noises) I regret that I didn't write more meticulously in my journal because I wish I knew how I came across this show. Probably because of the dynamic, though I don't remember having a catboy-loving streak enough to convince me to seek out something to this caliber. Certainly, it awoke that in me, despite the jumpscare I experienced every time Matsumoto Jun's face appeared too sudden
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