Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Black markets in everything bagels (in S. Korea)

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 South Korea is not a hub of everything bagels, it turns out. In fact they are banned. The NYT has the story: Why Everything Bagel Seasoning...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

It's against the law in North Korea to use South Korean words

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 From Radio Free Asia: North Korea sentences 20 young athletes for ‘speaking like South Koreans’. Skaters and skiers were caught on video us...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Black market tattoos in S. Korea: “No one’s trying to go to medical school to become a tattoo artist,”

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 Tattooing is illegal (but tattoos are not) in S. Korea.  The NY Times has the story: Tattoos, Still Illegal in South Korea, Thrive Undergro...
Friday, October 8, 2021

Repugnance watch: Dog (as) food in Korea--opposition from the President, amidst growing pet ownership

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  Here's the story from the Guardian: South Korean president suggests ban on eating dog meat. Moon Jae-in, a dog-lover, says ‘time has c...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A non-simultaneous liver exchange chain at UCSF, and a brief history of liver exchange

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 Living donor liver transplants are relatively uncommon in North America compared to Asia.  Liver exchange might help change that. Here are ...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Where man's best friend also tastes good: the market for dog meat in Korea

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The winter Olympics in Korea is bringing out stories about the restaurants there that have dog meat on the menu, and about how foreigners m...
Monday, October 17, 2016

Who Gets What and Why, in Korean

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Here is the Korean translation of my book Who Gets What and Why: Who Gets What-and Why in Korean Eun Jeong Heo  tells me that the titl...
Friday, January 16, 2015

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

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Chris Avery and Soo Lee and I have a new NBER working paper: College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea Chr...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Job markets in Korea

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I had an interesting discussion yesterday at the Korean Finance Ministry about the interconnectedness of job markets and child care... ...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Tub thumping about market design in Seoul

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Soo Lee and I discuss market design in Seoul: this photo is from this newspaper account (in Korean). Here's another photo,(apparent...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Global Financial Conference in Seoul

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Soohyung Lee and I will discuss market design  at the 2013 Seoul Global Financial Conference , April 2-3.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Brides "for sale:" marriage patterns in East Asia

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Soohyung Lee and Daiji Kawaguchi have a paper on marriage and matching that looks at who marries whom in East Asia.  As I understand it, ...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Kidney Exchange in South Korea

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S. Korea was a pioneer in kidney exchange . (In the U.S. population, Asians have the highest frequency of blood type B, almost equal to the...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Liver exchange

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Living Donor Exchange Poses New Option for Liver Transplantation "Two major transplant centers in Hong Kong and South Korea released...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Marriage and dating online in Korea

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Soohyung Lee has a paper about an online marriage market in Korea, whose findings are similar in some respects to those in the papers descri...
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