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Postcards from Asia radio spots: Recent submissions
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Golf and Taxes in South Korea
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-08-05)Broadcast Transcript: Bad news for golf mad South Koreans: forget about teeing off if you tee off the National Tax Service. The NTS is cracking down on tax cheats by revoking memberships in pricey golf clubs. Do the math: ... -
Aging Pets
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-07-29)Broadcast Transcript: As Japan's people population gets grayer so does its pet population and this has opened up a whole new market niche centering around dogs in their dotage. In Tokyo, there's a nursing home for the ... -
Korean Spelling Champ
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-24)Broadcast Transcript: She's a sixth grader. She's a champion speller. Her favorite word is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. She credits Akeelah and the Bee for inspiring her interest in spelling. She made it to the ... -
Confuciusornis
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-17)Broadcast Transcript: Well, it's time to add another item to that long list you're keeping of Things China Had First. This time it's birds. More specifically, one prehistoric bird called confuciusornis sanctus. Or holy ... -
Mudslinging Festival
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-10)Broadcast Transcript: For some Japanese, getting naked in public with a few hundred of their closest friends is a fantastic way to spend a cold winter day. Dozens of midwinter "hadaka matsuri"--or "naked festivals"--take ... -
Divorce Korean-Style
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-03)Broadcast Transcript: Until recently breaking up was NOT hard to do here in Korea making it a country with one of the highest divorce rates in Asia. The system allowed couples who filed papers at the local government office ... -
Blogocratic Demeritocacy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-05-27)Broadcast Transcript: For a thousand years, China was a bureaucratic meritocracy. Men from any walk of life could become high ranking officials if they did well on the Imperial examination. Failure meant dishonor, disgrace ... -
HRP-4C Robomodel
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-05-06)Broadcast Transcript: In the rarefied atmosphere of the catwalk, you pivot, you pose, you strut your stuff and, if you're HRP-4C, you whirr mechanically, blink electronically then cross your robotic arms and give a polite ... -
Onggi Festival
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-29)Broadcast Transcript: Book your tickets now: the Onggi Expo 2009 in Ulsan South Korea is coming up. And the potters of Oegosan Village are preparing for it in a big way: they are going for a Guinness world record by creating ... -
Fireworks Proxy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-22)Broadcast Transcript: From the "If you can't stand the heat... get someone else to stand under the fireworks for you" file comes this story from Taiwan: For years, the men of Taidong, have marked the Lunar New Year with a ... -
Maid Cafes
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-15)Broadcast Transcript: You step into a café. You hear "Welcome home, honorable master" spoken by an attractive young woman wearing a ruffled and flounced maid's uniform. If you aren't involved in one of those Victorian role ... -
Cloning Dogs
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-03-08)Broadcast Transcript: For those of you who have put off cloning your favorite pet due to the exorbitant cost, good news! The process just got cheaper. A biotech company here in South Korea has discovered that stems cells ... -
Chun Kun
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-01)Broadcast Transcript: Feeling sleepy? It's spring and the Chinese believe that people often feel sleepier in the spring. They even have a name for the condition: Chun kun--spring sleepiness. Kind of poetic, isn't it? Also, ... -
Take Me Out to the Besuboru Game
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-03-04)Broadcast Transcript: This Postcard is for every little girl who dreams of pitching in the majors. Take me out to the besuboru game! Besuboru is"baseball" in Japanese. It's a borrowed word and has been adapted to the ... -
Obama Speeches
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-02-25)Broadcast Transcript: Barack Obama is already having a global impact. The Japanese are using his speeches to help teach English. In fact, a book with his collected speeches is currently at the top of the bestseller list ... -
Speak of the Devil
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-02-18)Broadcast Transcript: In Chinese, when they want to say "speak of the devil" they say "shuo Cao Cao, Cao Cao jiu dao" "Speak of Cao Cao and he arrives." Cao Cao was a brilliant strategist in the late 2nd and early 3rd ... -
Wearable Airbags and Safety Diapers
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-02-11)Broadcast Transcript: Old age, as Bette Davis once said, ain't no place for sissies. Frailty. Loss of independence. Accidents. It's into this last category that this Postcard falls... with "falls" being the operative word. ... -
Hotel of Doom
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-02-04)Broadcast Transcript: If you build a luxury hotel in a city that discourages tourists from visiting, who'll stay there? It's like a bad Zen koan, isn't it? But it's not hypothetical: it refers to the Ryugyong Hotel aka The ... -
Electronic Fireflies
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-01-28)Broadcast Transcript: It's New Year in Japan which means... it's time to sing about fireflies. The song Hotaru no Hikari or light of the fireflies is as well known and beloved as Auld Lang Syne is in the West; in fact, ... -
Puchi Puchi
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-01-21)Broadcast Transcript: Is there a human on earth who doesn't enjoy popping bubble wrap? The satisfaction of the squish and the snap of a bubble breaking between your fingers transcends cultural borders. The problem is then ...
