Category Archives: media

Maggie Q in Nikita

Posted on May 22, 2010 by jaehwan

(saw the story of Maggie Q on 8Asians.com) I’ve been posting overtime on Asian people on TV. Maggie Q is getting a lead role on prime time.  See below for a sneak preview of Nikita, which is coming to the … Continue reading →

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Ryan Higa, Most Subscribed YouTube Channel of All Time

Posted on May 21, 2010 by jaehwan

As some of you know, YouTube is celebrating its fifth year anniversary, and they’re inviting people to share their YouTube stories via video. At the top of the heap is nigahiga with 2 million subscribers. I’m thinking that there are … Continue reading →

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Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park in Hawaii Five-O

Posted on May 20, 2010 by jaehwan

Got this from Alpha-Man.  We’re losing Lost this season, as well as FlashForward (that last episode tonight had to be the most GOD-AWFUL TV I’ve seen in a long time), and we need some new Asian American faces on the … Continue reading →

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Institutional Power and Censorship

Posted on May 18, 2010 by jaehwan

The NY Times had an interesting article a few days ago: How Chinese Censorship Affects Writers in the West.  It talks about how China’s influence is growing so large that writers, even those in the West, are censoring themselves out … Continue reading →

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Beauty and the Ethnic Woman

Posted on May 16, 2010 by jaehwan

Thanks, King, for sending in these articles: Erasing Ethnicity. (I google searched for a picture of a blonde haired, blue eyed Asian woman to put on the front-page of this article.  The results were all hideous, so I didn’t bother … Continue reading →

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The Asian Rake and Jamie Yeo in Singapore

Posted on May 12, 2010 by jaehwan

Whenever I post on hot chicks, my traffic spikes.  It’s actually been higher than usual recently, but when you’re on a roll, why not spike it super high?  When it comes to bigwowo…it’s like the Britney song…hit me baby one … Continue reading →

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IR and Romance in the Hermit Kingdom

Posted on May 6, 2010 by jaehwan

A female reader sent this one in: Korean Females Eye Foreign Husbands. (I mention that the reader is female just to let y’all know it’s not one of the usual IR gang.) I think the writer is reporting something that … Continue reading →

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Racist commercial?

Posted on May 4, 2010 by jaehwan

I got this one from Tim Yu’s blog. The video above was created by a group called Americans for Job Security to protest against Bill Halter, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Arkansas.  The ad accuses Bill Halter of … Continue reading →

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EthnoLA, 5/10/10

Posted on May 1, 2010 by jaehwan

This was from AZN at BcB. Check it out if you’re in LA.

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FlashForward: Baiting the viewers?

Posted on April 13, 2010 by jaehwan

Did anyone see last week’s FlashForward?  I blogged about the the Bryce/Keiko relationship before.  In last week’s episode, the story returns to Keiko (AF) and Bryce (WM) and how they’re trying hard to find one another.  (See video of Yuko … Continue reading →

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