Yes, you did read that headline right.
Over 5,500 people have been formally charged with the "crime" of adultery over the past six years. Nearly 900 were charged in 2014 alone.
There is a 1953 constitutional statute banning adultery in South Korea.
But no more. Adultery will finally no longer be an illegal activity, thanks to a motion by the Constitutional Court.
It's the fifth time the court has mulled the change. This time it has been abolished at last.
“It has become difficult to say that there is a consensus on whether adultery should be punished as a criminal ...
We're a little late on this -- hey, as you'd expect, our main focus is on Japan! -- but it's a fun story about Korean ladies, so allow us to indulge.
When we blogged recently about gorgeous Korean actress Oh In-hye stripping off for yet another explicit sex scene in Korean film The Plan, we were reminded of her antics at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) back in 2012. On the red carpet she wore a suitably red dress, though a Grecian one that plunged down to her stomach and revealed her braless, amazing bust juggling around as she walked.
The smiling Oh In-hye knew exactly what ...
Photographer Yuki Aoyama has managed to persuade the world that he is not a sleazy guy with a lens, but an artist. That takes some skill because his subject is always schoolgirls, particularly sweet and innocent-looking Japanese ones.
What other country in the world would revere a photographer who calls his breakout hit "Schoolgirl Complex"?
"Taiwan Kawaii School Girl" is his new release this month and, as the name suggests, features not Japanese female students but Taiwanese ones.
Can Taiwanese schoolgirls be as cute and alluring as their Japanese equivalents?
It seems ...
Few would question that K-pop is run like a factory, churning out idols and new pop groups like snacks for the loving public. While this is a bit fascist, it's going a bit far to call it Nazi.
But some Korean pop stars themselves seem to like the Nazis, or at least elements of Nazi aesthetic.
Pritz is a minor Korean girl band comprised of four cute girls. And these girls just happen to wear black clothes and red and white armbands with a striking similarity to a certain unpopular former German political party. Surprise surprise, the foursome just got a whole lot more ...
It's not easy being in an idol group. Constantly shuttling from photo shoot to TV appearance to recording studio to media interview. No real private life. Always under the watchful eye of your minders and agency controllers.
And now we have the sad news yesterday that Korean idol group Ladies' Code has lost one of its members in a traffic accident on a drive from Busan to Seoul.
EunB was killed and Sojung and Rise hurt, the latter critically, when a vehicle carrying all five members of the idol group crashed into a guardrail at 1.30 in the morning on Wednesday.
Other ...
There's been a lot of political tension over the last two years between Korea and Japan. Territorial disputes. Yasukuni Shrine. Comfort women.
But when all's said and done, there's one great unifier: sex.
Korea does not have a very vibrant porn industry and Korean men look to JAV to fill their needs.
"Yadong" means a porn video you watch online or on your computer. Whatever they think about certain rocks in the sea between Japan and the peninsula, almost all men in Korea love Japanese anime and Japanese porn.
Due to local restrictions you don't have the major porn makers in Korea like ...
We all know that plastic surgery is a dirty secret in Japan and an open practice in Korea.
But what about China?
Well, here's a demonstration of the perils of tampering too much with with what nature gives you.
Fashion model Li Ying Zhi has had some work done on her face, especially her chin, as can be witnessed by comparing her appearance in 2012 with a recent one in 2014.
This is the stunner in 2012 at the Beijing Motor Show, promoting BMW.
But these days she looks rather different (admittedly the quality of the images is also somewhat to blame for the ...
Nima Park is a young Korean girl who has been amazing the Internet since 2012 with her webcam stripteases and dances.
Chinese netizens made her famous in 2012 and since then she hasn't looked back. In some videos she appears fairly modestly but acts in a cute way. Other times she focuses on taking off all her clothes. Both are rather lovely.
In summer 2012 Chinese netizens went wild over one video where she dances very suggestively in lingerie. They tracked down the girl and thought was a TV presented called Park Nima (박니마) or Piao Nima (朴妮唛).
The truth is, though, ...
A Korean magazine has created furore with Japanese netizens -- normal people probably couldn't care less -- by running its latest issue featuring an article with the headline "How to date Japanese women who haven’t been exposed to radiation".
The Korean edition of men's lifestyle magazine Maxim even included the title on the cover of its February issue too, as well as running the obvious provocative piece on its website. It attracted hundreds of comments from angry Japanese visitors and prompted an apology from the editor.
We haven't read the article since our Hangul is ...
Japanese and Chinese netizens are currently going crazy about a series of very risque selfies posted by Korean customers in online shopping reviews.
They seem very satisfied not only with the swimwear and lingerie purchases they made but how they look with them all. We are certainly impressed by the results as well.
We love how the selfies are focussed very intently on certain aspects of how the girls look -- the butt, the cleavage and so on.
While Japanese online merchants don't feature such exciting online reviews, there is a ...
