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Because Apparently, We All Look Alike [Hulu Fail]

Dear Hulu, Thanks for even having a Korean Dramas section. I really appreciate it. And thank you for spotlighting the Korean Dramas genre on your front page today:  But wait. Something isn't quite right. Can it be that the first "Korean" drama you featured is The Legend of Bruce Lee? Just to make sure, I clicked on over and watched a few minutes. I was right. It clearly is a CHINESE drama. Look, I have nothing against the Chinese. Heck, I even married a Chinese guy. But as someone who grew up with numerous people asking me, "What ethnicity are you? Chinese?...

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When Toilet Paper is Not an Option

Admit it. We've all been there. Doing a #2 in a public/semi-public restroom, only to realize that — oh crap (literally) — there's no toilet paper! What do you do? This is precisely the reason I try my best to have a pack of tissues in my bag at all times. But on the few occasions I didn't, I have waited until the bathroom was empty, loosely pulled up my lower pieces of clothing so that nothing was touching my skin, waddled over to the next stall and helped myself to some toilet paper from there. I have never asked a stranger to pass me some toilet paper (although I have been asked several times over the years). But what if it's a one-person bathroom? And...

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Tesco Homeplus Korean Virtual Store

I am loving this video about how a Korean grocery store chain successfully brought its store to customers during their commute. How is it different from having just an online store? Seeing the items in front of you, in life-size, full-color photos that are brightly and attractively displayed not only reminds us of items we may have forgotten, it also makes us consider products that we *might* want or need (ie, impulse shopping)...

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My Mother’s Birth Story, Abridged

It is no secret that my father loves his two daughters and openly tells people over and over again how having two girls has taught him to be more sensitive, more responsible, and a better man in general. And as it was with Claire, it was he who was the happiest to hear the news that we are expecting another girl. However, I know that this was not always the case. I know that having lived most of his life in Korea — formerly a strongly patriarchal society — he must have had bouts of disappointment at not having sired a boy. (Surveys now show that for the first time in Korean society, parents prefer to have girls over boys. This is a...

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