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The hospitality industry’s “host of the century” (unlike his buddy, “Michigan’s Man of the Year”) recently passed away under questionable circumstances, but not without raising questions about the privileging of virginity or more accurately its deflowering(sic).
There is some Epsteinism in Japan’s colonial rule of Korea with its organization of brothels during WW II. It is more than reparations than it is about sexual imperialism. Steve King notwithstanding, it is about rape culture, a feature of feudalism that was referenced in Braveheart, and manifest more recently in the Balkans and Africa.
Twelve artists have called on the Aichi Triennale to remove their work from the show until works taken off view last week are reinstated. When the current edition of the triennale first opened to the public on August 1st, it included the exhibition “After ‘Freedom of Expression’?”, which featured artworks that had been previously censored in Japan. After three days, the exhibition itself was censored following official outcry, leading 72 artists in the show to sign a statement online demanding it be reopened.
Members of the Japanese government decried “After ‘Freedom of Expression’?” for its inclusion of a work depicting a “comfort woman,” a euphemism for women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II. The work in question—alternatively known as Statue of a Girl of Peace or simply Statue of Peace (2011)—was created by Korean artists Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Spanish businessman Tatxo Benet bought the artwork and plans to display it in a “Freedom Museum” he is opening in Barcelona.
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More amazing is that this is a continuing ritual shaming of Japan in South Korea.
Since 1992 the embassy has been a site of weekly Wednesday demonstrations, related to the comfort women issue.[8] The controversial Statue of Peace, related to the comfort women issue, was unveiled in front of the embassy in 2011, causing another lengthy diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea.[9][10] In 2012 a Chinese man threw four Molotov cocktails at the embassy to voice his anger over the comfort women issue.[11] In 2015 an elderly South Korean man set himself on fire during a weekly Wednesday demonstration.[3]
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Mash-up or fusion cuisine: comfort food remains for all of us whether it’s the memory triggered from childhood or some other combination of associations: nostalgic foods, indulgence foods, convenience foods, and physical comfort foods. Today it was canned corned beef hash and an egg, Not very healthy but perhaps something like a bi-monthly guilty pleasure.
Budae Jjigae (Korean Army Stew)
This spicy stew includes random ingredients such as Spam, sausage, kimchi and cheese (and sometimes macaroni!). The dish was invented when American soldiers based in Korea brought over all these Western ingredients. It is now a typical meal in Korea.