[AmericanInTokyo]

[ http://donga.com ] Here again, try it this way. Don't hit the brackets on either side. Then, this link will take you right away to the Korean Donga newspaper site. Got it right now, finally!

[tictoc]

Well, if nothing else, this is certainly great fun.

Here is the first paragraph from Donga's top story today:

BEGIN KOREAN QUOTE
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END KOREAN QUOTE

(Apologies to Freepers without Korean language support installed; you will see only random characters instead of Korean words.)

Now let's enter this into Babelfish and marvel at the prowess of machine translation:

BEGIN BABELFISH TRANSLATION
' ' From ' destruction of life department Pak as a matter of Democratic Party which is classified with the rebellious subject public opinion rebellious subject ' thousand (ÚÓ ßÓ highest rank won and affection germ exchange (ï÷ г the director and the Pak waters (ÚÓ åÇ |#e2aa{) the member of the Assembly will get torn and 17 days conspicuously together " the sound where also the language does not become " it will wind strong unpleasantly, it was visible.
END BABELFISH TRANSLATION

Hmm...

But wait, donga.com also offers an English version of its content!

This appears to be a day behind the Korean-language edition... There is some good human-interest material there, like the report on a Flushing, NY, restaurant owner dead of a heart attack following false reports over her serving dog meat (which turned out to be only coyote meat).

Nothing, however, about the affectionate germ exchange, nor whose Assembly will get its member torn (ouch!), and nothing either on the strong unpleasantly wind... although perhaps it is best not to ask.