Word: doo
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...Korea has had plenty of Presidents who despised the press. After seizing power in 1961, dictator Park Chung Hee banned news stories critical of his government and stationed intelligence agents in newsrooms. His successor Chun Doo Hwan forced media outlets to fire journalists he didn't like. Speaking out against the government in those days could get you arrested or beaten up. Today, censorship and physical intimidation are verboten, but heavy-handed habits die hard. The presidential Blue House still pressures editors to change copy, sometimes successfully. Says Kim Young Bae, who has just finished a stint as editorial page...
...Kids have no sense of history; they think something was invented the first time they learned of it. So I can't say if another Jocko salutation - "Oo papa doo, and how da ya do?" - and his occasional ejaculation "Great googa-mooga!" were his inventions. Or maybe that was Jocko's WDAS colleague, Georgie Woods, the Man With the Goods (who lived about three blocks from me). But it sounded fresh and seductive to this kid. An evening with Jocko was like an all-night jam session: the records were the familiar choruses, and his patter was the inspired improv...
...Committee, a panel of teens that chose records and monitored the troops. At 20 he got on radio and quickly established himself as a pioneer rock archivist, running perhaps the first-ever oldies show. And not something simple, like pre-Army Elvis. Wildly obscure stuff, rhythm 'n blues and doo-wop, mostly, all to the ersatz-black syncopation only a Jewish kid could bring...
Hair curlers and Pocket Monsters, comfort women and labor camps. Like young Lee Doo Dam and retiree Park Sung Pyo, much of Asia sees Japan as a country with a split personality, a hard-to-understand culture that inspires contradictory sentiments. It represents evil. And fun! Fear. And awe. No matter what the impression, the stereotypes fail to capture the nuances of the culture - or the postwar relationships that have evolved between Japan and its Asian neighbors. Instead, the images of Japan - the warmonger, the economic powerhouse, the rich sugar daddy and the epitome of teen cool - are like...
Little Lee Doo Dam is just one example. He may have managed to hold out against Pokémon, but then the newest Japanese fad hit - the Digimon cartoon series. Doo Dam caved - like most of his buddies who have helped make the comics the top-selling children's books at Seoul's giant Kyobo bookstore. "It's fun and there is no Korean comic to match it," he says. "So I think it is O.K. to read Digimon. Even if it comes from Japan...