Kushibo the Link Whore Pimp's Best of 2010

You'll forgive me if I'm about three weeks behind on my end-of-year/new-year stuff, but one thing I wanted to do is make a few "Best of 2010" lists.

And I thought I'd start with a list of favorites from my favorite blogs, which (in no particular order and not an exhaustive list) include One Free Korea, Brian (formerly) in Chŏllanamdo, The Marmot's Hole, and ROK Drop.

But this is a list not of my favorite posts from my favorite blogs, but a list of favorites from those bloggers themselves. In December I wrote to those bloggers and several others and asked them for just such a list. It's just my way of giving back.

Brian (formerly) in Chŏllanam-do:

• Investigated by Immigration over newspaper contributions, with possible Kang Shin-who involvement

• Haeundae motels

• "Korea, Be Inspired," the new Korea Tourism Organization slogan

• No room for older, experienced teachers at Korea's public schools

• Holy f*****g s**t, look at that shirt

Wangkon of The Marmot's Hole:

• "It's like cabbage crack!"

Joshua Stanton of One Free Korea:

• Capitalist Manifesto (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Some of my favorites from Monster Island:

• In the Year Two Thousand (Twenty), English robots run amok

• Some Americans angry about Muslims who died at Ground Zero

• The Lisa Ling/Kushibo conversation (here, here, and here)

• The Kim Who Wasn't There (and Barbara Demick admits we don't know what's going on)

• A little AES satire from the Winter Olymipcs (and a little Ohno satire)

• Happy birthday, Mr Secretary-General

• Big changes on Monster Island

• 金 = gold (the article is so-so, but I really liked the headline)

• why does korea

• Kushibo's late-night thoughts on working for Census Bureau

• The one where Kushibo sees Avatar: The Last Airbender

• KAL 858 and the smell test

• Selig Harrison stars in "Lie Another Day"

• Marcus Noland has been visiting Monster Island

• Ban Kimoon doesn't care if you get AIDS

• Kaesŏng: The political experiment that won't die

• Waterworld

• Hyundai settles with family of Ryan Dallas Cook (this is important to me in part because it was a years-long story where I may have played a role)

• And speaking of Kim Jong-un... (a silly post, but the pictures make me laugh)

I realize that's a long list, but I did produce 1145 posts last year.

Anyway, I did ask a few other bloggers for contributions, but I got no response (in all fairness, end of year is a bad time to ask anyone anything). I am happy to entertain additions to this list.