Koreans

Growing up in San Francisco, I must say that there is not a very large Korean influence here, or at least that's how I feel about it. I didn't know much about Korean culture or even know that many Korean people since the opportunity never seemed to present itself. The exceptions were the few Korean people that went to Lowell. Most of them hung out together, ironically, but they were chill. In Berkeley, however, there are Korean people everywhere! Two of my roommates this past school year were Korean, and their parents made some bomb ass Korean food for us. Thanks to them my Korean ignorance is subsiding. Anyways that's not really the point of this post. The point of this one is how ridiculous these Korean scientists are.



I'm a big Yahoo featured articles reader. Earlier this year I read about these Korean scientists who successfully cloned a glowing dog. They engineered these four beagles that look normal in the daylight, but under ultraviolet light they will glow red (See dog to the above). Why the hell would you need a dog that glows? But I must admit, it's pretty fuckin awesome. As smart as these scientists are, I'd say they should leave a little room for some imagination. They named all four of the dogs "Ruppy". It's a combination of "ruby" and "puppy". Come on, you just made a damn dog glow in the dark. Give them some sicker names than that.

And today, the Koreans are at it again. Yahoo featured a story about the South Korean airport using cloned drug sniffing dogs. What the. Apparently they took a dog that was already working as a drug sniffer who was hella raw so they cloned it and now they have 6 drug sniffing machines! But alas, they failed to come up with some sweet names for these bad boys. They named all 6 of them "Toppy". It's a combination of "tomorrow" and "puppy". I think "Drone" would have been a sav name (drug and clone).

I look forward to what these Koreans have in store for dogs next.