Ningin is a community for anything Asian around the world. Entertainment, Celebrities, Movies, Music, TV, News, Politics. Be part of the community and express yourself!
Filter Items
Tag Cloud
album, award, awards, baseball, cell phone, couple, daisuke matsuzaka, decline, development, festival, game, games, global, government, high school, home, horror, injury, internet, japan, japanese, korea, korean, love, mlb, new, new year, olympics, overseas, people, performance, photo, pitcher, popular, power, project, rain, record, red sox, school, series, software, song, south korean, spotlight, star, technology, world, 2007, 2008
Frontpage Items (8)
Every new year begins with a list about the old one. Here's my 2008 list of notable events in Japanese baseball.
Tags: japan, japanese, new, 2008, world, korea, star, series, school, games, performance, game, list, olympics, record, award, high school, baseball, new year, spotlight, boston, mlb, daisuke matsuzaka, red sox
Roto Massage Parlor: More Early Questions for the Obsessed"
Several players worth discusssing either vastly exceeded expectations or seemingly came out of nowhere to become valuable roto contributors in 2008.
Tags: 2008, us, love, 2007, game, record, project, power, injury, decline
Pink Tentacle put up its Top 10 posts for 2008. Not surprisingly I've linked to a few of these. I couple others I meant to link to but didn't. In the top spot is the recent Scientists extract images directly from brain...
Korean Funnyman That Ruined Lotte's Season Wins Entertainer of the Year
What a bummer. It's not that Kang Ho-dong gets me seething at the TV like some Korean personalities do, but it sometimes does bother me how ubiquitous certain entertainers are once they've become popular.
Tags: people, korean, korea, tv, popular, home, festival, photo, award, awards, wife
Korea to Open Cellphone Market
Pretty surprising news and maybe something people outside of Korea aren't really aware of.nIn early 2005, the South Korean communications regulatory agency created a rule that cellphones connecting to the Internet in the country...
Tags: new, people, world, korean, korea, home, market, internet, global, south korean, baseball, models, overseas, software, cell phone, cellphone
Here's some unexpected news out of Saitama: Seibu is going to post relief pitcher Koji Mitsui. The article isn't specific about when they're going to do it, but I'm assuming it will be during this offseason.
Korean Government Goes to Town on Another Pop Song
Last week it was Rain, this time around it's Dong Bang-shin-ki, who like Rain, recently came back after a long layoff, and much to my chagrin is more popular than ever.
Tags: korean, song, government, popular, rain
Japanese Scientists Extract Images Directly from Brain
I don't know if I think this is a good or bad thing. Could save time by exposing bad relationships before they get bad. Could be useful in catching criminals.
Tags: japan, japanese, new, people, development, technology
Malaysian Man Killed for Hogging Karaoke
I don't want to say I've nearly been killed for hogging the Karaoke mic (or as we call it here in Korea, norebang) but I am a 2-for-everyone-else's-1-song kind of guy. I guess you could say I've killed the mic.
Tags: people, korean, korea, song, man, girl, popular, police, couple, death, culture, record, wife, singing, anniversary, fight, filipino, malaysian, karaoke