Uri Social Engineering Marches On

I fight the temptation to do tabloid stuff on this blog, I really do. You will see no cheesecakey pics here as cheap hit-counter sellout (sorry to disappoint all of you out there in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and the UAE, and yes, I can see the google searches that got you here). Sometimes, however, the tawdry intersects with either (1) the relevant, or (2) the completely asinine.

South Korea’s Uri Party brain trust, fresh from its brilliant successes at moving the capital, purging the descendants of collaborators, and digging up most of downtown Seoul, drives bravely on with its war against Korea’s oldest industry. Now it wants to turn its forests of “love hotels” into cheap accomodations for tourists from Southeast Asia. Is it just vaguely possible that a man living under the palm fronds in Ko Samui or Nha Trang yearns for frigid Siberian winds laced with the scent of bus exhaust?