U.S. Wildfire Maps

On Sunday I reported on two useful maps for helping to keep track of the spread of wildfires this summer. The San Francisco Chronicle's California Fire Tracker is mapping and providing information on the wildfires currently burning across California. You can also view information about wildfires inside and outside of California on the US Wildfire Activity Public Information Map.

Esri has now

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This is an AI World

Google is building a new world designed by artificial intelligence (and it is a world that is actually a lot less creepy than it sounds).

World Draw is an AI experiment which you can take part in simply by submitting simple drawings. World Draw takes user submitted sketches and uses artificial intelligence to recognize what has been drawn. It then turns those recognized objects into 3d models

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The Native People of Australia

Back in 2015 Native-Land started mapping the territories and languages of the indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada. Native-Land now also shows the territories and languages of the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand.

The map consists of two main layers, one showing the 'territory' of indigenous peoples and the other showing the geographical spread of indigenous

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Bigbang fans complain to Kang Sunghoon's cover of 'Flower Road'

Article: Sechs Kies Kang Sunghoon covers Bigbang's fansong 'Flower Road'... Bigbang fans complain

Source: Star Today via Nate

1. [+378, -133] I don't think this is a big wrongdoing...

2. [+337, -67] You shouldn't mess with fansongs out of respect. Imagine an artist covering Sechs Kies' fansong. I'm sure the fans will make a bigger fuss ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

3. [+257, -51] I can understand covering other artists' songs, but I don't think covering a fansong is right.

4. [+37, -20] The fact that he sang another artist's fansong at his own concert is wrong enough, but he also changed the lyrics and added a choreo. OK, I can tolerate them all, but some Kang Sunghoon fans are acting aggressive and demanding us to be thankful for covering their fansong. By the way, Flower Road hit the roof and was #1 for weeks without any promotion.

5. [+33, -11] I remember him going to courts for committing fraud. He cleaned up his image with Infinity Challenge.

6. [+33, -10] The problem is that Bigbang has never even performed the song... And Kang Sunghoon added a choreography on top of that ㅋㅋ

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Pann: Reasons why Bigbang fans are upset with Kang Sunghoon

1. [+261, -28] When us VIPs complained, we were treated like an ungrateful hoobae fandom.

2. [+235, -34] I'm not a fan but Sechs Kies and their fandom also have a lot of controversies but they got buried. The way they treated Lee Young Ja was so rude.

3. [+223, -28] I'm a Sechs Kies fan but I don't understand Kang Sunghoon and his fans... I apologize on behalf of them, sorry VIPs ㅠㅠ

4. [+149, -10] I'm not interested in any idol but I really pity Bigbang fans. For example, my boyfriend proposes me with his self-produced song. And then my boyfriend's sunbae edits the song and proposes his girlfriend. The girlfriend posts the song on Instagram and I have to see that. This is supposed to be my song since he dedicated the song to me but I can't even complain since it's a sunbae who stole the song from my boyfriend. If I complain, I'm gonna be called rude and ungrateful by the sunbae's girlfriend.

5. [+141, -6] Sechs Kies fans say VIPs should be thankful for promoting the song but the song got excellent results, we don't need any promotion ㅋㅋㅋ

6. [+119, -2] It's not like Bigbang fans are mad because Bigbang never performed the song before. First of all, Bigbang produced the song for the fans 2 years ago to release it before enlisting. When the first articles were out, they clearly called it a 'fansong'. But Kang Sunghoon re-recorded the song and even changed the 'Bigbang' signature sound to 'Hoony'. Even non-fans recognized the 'Bigbang' sound, imagine how it's like for the fans. But Kang Sunghoon changed that ㅋㅋㅋㅋ He also added a choreography. It's understandable why the fans are upset.

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A scene from Chinese version of 'Boys Over Flowers'

"When you want to cry,"

"You just have to stand on your hands."

"So that the tears won't come out."

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Pann: Issued Chinese version of Boys Over Flowers

1. [+114, -1] ㅋㅋㅋㅋ The tears won't come out because it's absurd.

2. [+72, -1] Isn't the actress Shen Yue from A Love So Beautiful? Haven't seen her in a while ㅋㅋㅋ

3. [+53, -1] Why does he look so serious while standing on his hands ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

4. [+32, -0] The tears will come out like this.

5. [+32, -0] I think he's standing on his hands only in the full shot. In the close-up shot, his hair isn't affected by the gravity.

6. [+26, -0] Is this real ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is more severe than Jihoo sunbae asking to make Jandi an honorary fireman ㅋㅋㅋ

7. [+17, -0] I thought this was SNL ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

8. [+14, -0] How come his hair isn't moving when he's standing on his hands?

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How Gerrymandered is Your District?

The United States is one of only a few democratic countries that allow politicians to play a major role in redistricting. Most countries appoint an independent commission to handle how political districts should be defined. It is almost as if the American system was designed to encourage gerrymandering.

The ACLU's What the District map allows you to explore how your election district has

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Upvote or downvote for recognizing pre-2012 songs

Pann: Upvote/downvote for recognizing an old song

1. [+1292, -81] Secret - Shy Boy

2. [+1155, -36] Into The New World

3. [+727, -749] Cocktail Love

4. [+616, -67] MBLAQ - It's War

5. [+565, -29] SHINee - Replay

6. [+487, -26] Fate

7. [+398, -85] T-ara - I Go Crazy Because Of You

8. [+378, -248] Davichi - Love and War

9. [+356, -83] Purple Scent

10. [+321, -58] Park Hyo Shin - Wildflower

11. [+299, -51] I Wish It Would Be That Way Now

12. [+291, -195] Coed School - Bbiribbom Bbaeribbom. Great song.

13. [+282, -77] FT Island - Love Sick

14. [+233, -107] After School - Because of You

15. [+212, -55] Lee Hyori - Miss Korea

16. [+199, -49] Sunny Hill - Goodbye To Romance

17. [+166 -3] Roly Poly

18. [+121, -20] Teen Top - No More Perfume on You

19. [+110, -85] Teen Top - Be Ma Girl

20. [+99, -3] Romantic Cat

21. [+88, -4] Infinite - Be Mine

22. [+85, -2] Leessang - Woman Who Can't Break Up, Man Who Can't Leave

23. [+83, -9] Infinite - Chaser

24. [+66, -3] Turtle - Airplane

25. [+64, -2] 2NE1 - I Don't Care

26. [+57, -15] T-ara & Cho Shin Sung - TTL

27. [+53, -10] Paparazzi

28. [+51, -1] Candy To My Ears

29. [+50, -21] Jadu - Kimbab

30. [+49, -5] Bigbang - Haru Haru

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The World According to Strabo

The title 'Father of Geography' could be given to the Greek philosopher, historian and geographer Strabo. Strabo lived during the transitional period when the Roman Republic developed into the Roman Empire. He is most well known for his 'Geographica', an historical and descriptive account of the people and places living in the different regions of the western world, during his era.

Strabo

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Fans question why Laboum's stages are in the ending on music shows

Pann: Why are Laboum's stages in the ending these days?

1. [+209, -21] Do Laboum fans still want to stan the group after Solbin's V-app controversy?

2. [+182, -7] Despite all the issues, Laboum is still promoting as if nothing happened... I respect them...

3. [+178, -3] They're the group that did sajaegi, beat IU, and won #1 ㅋㅋ

4. [+90, -0] I still don't understand how they beat IU and won #1 on Music Bank. I don't even remember what the song was ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+83, -3] I find Solbin really unlikeable...

6. [+70, -4] Solbin is the most interesting one. It's not like she was popular like Hyeri or Seolhyun but she did a lot of individual CFs. Sprite CF, contact lens CF, SK CF... Her sponsor must be someone really powerful.

7. [+70, -4] I also don't understand this. Are they even at the level to perform after Mamamoo and Seventeen?

8. [+45, -3] The fact that they perform after GFriend is so weird ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

9. [+44, -4] Sponsor~~~

10. [+43, -0] They're superstars who can beat IU. It's nothing weird ㅋㅋ

11. [+41, -0] I thought they were a rookie group but they debuted in 2014. They debuted in the same year as Red Velvet, Winner, and Mamamoo.

12. [+37, -1] One of the group that never become popular despite all the promotions. Also Fromis9.

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Brand value ranking of male CF models

Brand value ranking of male CF models

1) Park Seo Joon

2) Kang Daniel

3) Gong Yoo

4) Baek Jong Won

5) Kang Dong Won

6) Cha Eunwoo

7) Park Bogum

8) Lee Byung Hun

9) Lee Sang Min

10) Ha Seok Jin

11) Won Bin

12) Ha Jung Woo

13) Jung Haein

14) Lee Dong Wook

15) Cha Tae Hyun

16) Ryu Jun Yeol

17) Jung Woo Sung

18) Seo Kang Joon

19) Yoo Jae Suk

20) Jun Hyun Moo

21) Kim Soo Hyun

22) Kim Jong Kook

23) Song Joongki

24) Eric

25) Lee Seo Jin

26) Ahn Jung Hwan

27) Lee Jung Jae

28) Jo In Sung

29) Ma Dong Seok

30) Cha Seung Won

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Article: Park Seo Joon is #1 on the brand value of male CF models... #2 Kang Daniel, #3 Gong Yoo

Source: Xports News via Nate

1. [+801, -43] Gong Yoo is #3 without recent promotions, how amazing and cool of him. I hope to see him in a new project soon.

2. [+464, -176] I like Kang Daniel.

3. [+460, -161] Wow, Kang Daniel in the middle of actors. Amazing.

4. [+179, -8] Kang Daniel is always on the ranking, he's amazing.

5. [+166, -205] Why is Kang Daniel there ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

6. [+157, -11] Kang Daniel is always ranked with actors. He's indeed an idol that never existed before.

7. [+156, -13] Kang Daniel is cool, he's been in top 3 for a year~

8. [+122, -8] Kang Daniel's Hite CF is nice. I see him at every baseball game ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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Blood Moon lunar eclipse & Mars' approach to occur at dawn

Article: 'Blood Moon' and Mars' approach... 'space show' at dawn of 28th

Source: JTBC via Naver

1. [+959, -20] The Moon is huge and bright. It's gonna be quite of a scene.

2. [+966, -61] I'm going to bed. Make sure to take good pictures and upload them.

3. [+472, -54] Journalists, please take pretty pictures of it instead of doing useless stuff.

4. [+395, -53] Wow, what a scene! A gift from god.

5. [+55, -5] Interesting... I predict this is going to be Question #20 on Earth Science for college entrance exams.

6. [+44, -5] So interesting. Humans are nothing to the mystery of the nature.

7. [+39, -6] Ah I'm going to cry ㅠㅠ I'll finally get to see my hometown from the Earth. I want to go back for this Chuseok but I haven't fixed my spaceship yet ㅠㅠ

8. [+25, -2] The space show aside, it's so fucking hot.

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3rd rank of Miss Korea throws the first pitch at a baseball game

Article: 3rd rank of Miss Korea Lee Yoon Ji, "Is my first pitch pretty, too?"

Source: My Daily via Nate

1. [+665, -24] For Miss Korea, 2nd rank and 3rd rank are always prettier than the 1st rank ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

2. [+548, -15] She's prettier...

3. [+440, -34] Miss Korea isn't evaluated by face alone. The 3rd rank mostly requires a pretty face, so the 3rd rank is the prettiest contestant. The 2nd rank requires a pretty face and good education background. The 1st rank has to participate in Miss Universe so it requires a tall height, good education background (preferably studied overseas), good family background, interview skills, and foreign language skills. In other words, the 1st rank requires various skills. The reason why Lee Honey was the 1st rank was because of that. At that time, people agreed that the 2nd rank was prettier and Lee Honey didn't get good responses. It wasn't that Lee Honey was the prettiest, but she is a Seoul National University graduate, she has good family background, she's tall, and she was good with interviews. That's why she was the 1st rank. So usually, the 2nd and 3rd ranks will be prettier than the 1st rank. I heard this from a judge of Miss Korea.

4. [+19, -3] Her skin is no joke... Her white thighs are jjang.

5. [+19, -7] Better than the 1st rank ㅋㅋ

6. [+18, -2] Honestly, she's better than the 1st rank ㅋㅋ

7. [+15, -0] She's so pretty, though?

8. [+12, -2] The 1st rank of Miss Korea is the weirdest. Rather than the fact that she's Miss Korea, I don't understand how she even passed the preliminaries.

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The ban on commercial breaks for public channels to be lifted this year

Article: "Public channels should allow commercial breaks" Korea Communications Commission to allow it this year

Source: SBS via Naver

1. [+948, -9] Then they should stop with the TV broadcast fee

2. [+558, -5] They're already putting commercial breaks by diving the shows into Part 1 and Part 2. What are they saying?

3. [+280, -7] Then why charge us the broadcast fee? They're not even worth watching! If they allow commercial breaks, then they should be competing fairly by revealing the numbers of the cable channels!

4. [+117, -8] At least the public channels should never have commercial breaks!

5. [+31, -0] It only benefits the commercial business and the CF models. It increases the prices of the products. The vicious cycle continues.

6. [+30, -0] Commercial breaks should also be banned on cable channels as well.

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FNC apologizes for calling SF9 "nugu idols" in a webtoon

Article: Nugu idols? FNC apologizes for the webtoon controversy of SF9

Source: Star News via Nate

(Webtoon artist Hyun Madam and SF9 had a special collaboration webtoon. In the webtoon, the controversial line was "How can you say these unproved nugu idols are product-worthy?")

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1. [+227, -15] FNC is at it again...

2. [+203, -5] They're always doing obvious media-play like this ㅋㅋ

3. [+178, -6] Amazing media-play

4. [+17, -0] So they're nugu idols, and they were called nugu idols in a webtoon, and the fans of the nugu idols complained, and the company of the nugu idols are apologizing to the fans of the nugu idols?

5. [+12, -0] They're nugu, though

6. [+11, -1] Stop overreacting just because you have Yoo Jae Suk.

7. [+10, -0] Why are they apologizing when it's their own artists ㅋㅋㅋㅋ This type of media-play is low-quality, something Kwangsoo would do ㅋㅋㅋ I can't believe they're still doing this media-play ㅋㅋ I understand since it's FNC.

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5 unsolved controversies of idols

1) EXO Chen - Kunta Kinte

2) EXO Chanyeol - offensive gesture

3) Pentagon Wooseok - phone background

"Pussy makes me smile I love the different colors of pussies and I don't care if the pussy is shaved or not"

4) Monsta X Wonho - phone lockscreen

(sexualized anime character)

5) Top Secret Kyungha - sexual harrassment

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Pann: 5 unsolved controversies of idols

1. [+53, -1] That sexual harrassment controversy is really quiet. He should be thankful that he's unpopular.

2. [+40, -20] I wonder which fandoms downvoted this post.

3. [+33, -7] Why is everyone so quiet about Wooseok's phone background? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

4. [+24, -3] At first, I didn't know what Kunta Kinte was. I looked up and it was a black slave.

5. [+22, -34] + Rapmon when VIXX won #1 for the first time.

6. [+21, -3] But Chanyeol should be apologizing to his mother personally. I don't think he needs to make a public apology.

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July ranking of girl group brand value

July ranking of girl group brand value

1) Blackpink Jennie

2) Apink Naeun

3) Mamamoo Whasa

4) Apink Namjoo

5) Twice Momo

6) Momoland Yeonwoo

7) Blackpink Jisoo

8) Apink Hayoung

9) Gugudan Sejeong

10) Red Velvet Seulgi

11) Momoland JooE

12) Mamamoo Wheein

13) Twice Mina

14) Momoland Nancy

15) Mamamoo Solar

16) Gugudan Mina

17) Twice Nayeon

18) Twice Sana

19) Apink Bomi

20) Mamamoo Moonbyul

21) Apink Eunji

22) GFriend Yuju

23) Apink Chorong

24) Twice Jungyeon

25) Red Velvet Irene

26) GFriend Sowon

27) Twice Tzuyu

28) Gugudan Nayoung

29) GFriend SinB

30) WJSN Bona

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Article: Blackpink Jennie is #1 on girl group brand value... Naeun #2, Whasa #2

Source: Xports News via Nate

1. [+973, -161] There's a huge gap between #1 and #2/3

2. [+446, -132] The ranking doesn't seem that trustful.

3. [+68, -28] Jennie is a rising wannabe among women. She'll last long as an icon like a female GD. It's women who bring in the revenues. Men don't really spend money and they don't like Jennie, either. Jisoo is the type that men like.

4. [+60, -39] Jennie was born to be a celebrity.

5. [+56, -18] I knew Jennie was pretty but in that picture, she's outstanding.

6. [+53, -30] Jennie is dominating.

7. [+48, -19] Seeing it like that, Jennie is so pretty.

8. [+43, -19] Naeun used to be so pretty. Jennie-ya, let's keep going like this without getting work done.

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Current Melon chart

2) Dance The Night Away - Twice

3) Ddu-du Ddu-du - Blackpink

4) I'm So Sick - Apink

5) Egotistic - Mamamoo

6) Travel - Bolbbalgan4

7) Forever Young - Blackpink

8) Sunny Summer - GFriend

9) Tale - Melomance

10) Love U - Chungha

11) Fake Love - BTS

12) Everyday, Every Moment - Paul Kim

13) Only One For Me - BTOB

14) Nilo

15) Baam - Momoland

16) Oh My - Seventeen

17) Don't Give It To Me - Loco & Hwasa

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Pann: The current Melon chart is really competitive

1. [+190, -2] Shaun chose a wrong time to manipulate the chart ㅋㅋㅋㅋ He shouldn't have made it too obvious. How can he be charting #1 when there are digitally-strong artists like Twice, Blackpink, BTOB, BTS, and Bolbbalgan4?

2. [+89, -1] So funny how the OP cut Shaun off ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

3. [+68, -1] It's a legendarily full house.

4. [+25, -0] I'm so proud to see my bias. So funny how the OP cut off Shaun and Nilo ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+25, -0] With fandoms like them, how can Shaun be #1...

6. [+21, -0] Twice's What Is Love failed to be the #1 monthly song because of Nilo. Now they're again blocked by Shaun. Fuck...

7. [+15, -0] There are a lot of comebacks and the chart is a concrete ㅋㅋㅋ The chart would've been a fair one if it wasn't Shaun and Nilo...

8. [+13, -0] I think the best is to avoid having a comeback in July and August ㅋㅋㅋㅋ The first half of 2018 was competitive enough but it was still better than now. The current chart is totally suffocating ㅋㅋ As a listener, I'm happy to have a lot of good songs to listen to.

9. [+12, -0] On July 29, Zico's song featuring IU will be released ㅋㅋ Shaun should be prepared to be kicked out.

10. [+11, -16] Meanwhile, GFriend is flopping hard ㅋㅋㅋㅋ They're lower than Twice, Mamamoo, and Blackpink and they're charting even lower than Blackpink's b-side. I guess the public is filtering out their childish song.

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Shaun's title track is not pushed by sajaegi because of the lyrics?

Lyrics of Shaun's title track (about falling in love with a sex worker)

I think of you every once in a while

You were filling up my glass

You told me you wanted to run away

I was shaken when you grabbed me and stared at me

I think of you every once in a while

I tried to steal your heart

You told me you were always going to be with me

Even if you were with a different man

I want you

I also think of it sometimes

I tried to steal your heart

"I'll be responsible for everything, I'll hug you"

I felt so sorry as I was listening to you

I also think of it sometimes

I'm sullied like this

But I want a small escape from you

Because I don't want to be a shameless person

I don't wanna drink, I don't want loveless kisses anymore

I don't want the fake conversations over the table

I don't need LSD

I want you

We go out and dance

It's too cold here, we're gonna get clothes to cover your shoulders

Exchanging a few words is enough to tell you're an airhead

But why am I falling for someone like you?

I don't know what a need yeah

I'll call you tomorrow

I keep going back to you, I feel stupid

But I keep going back everyday

They call you 'agassi' (sex worker)

They call you a gold-digger

Let's run away because this is love

I want you

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Pann: The reason why Shaun used a b-side for sajaegi

1. [+92, -0] Ah dirty... I really liked him after seeing him on Unexpected Q. He said he's gonna sue hateful commenters, who is he to be suing people? He's the one who should be sued.

2. [+91, -1] The men who visit those establishments are just as dirty but they're calling the female workers airheads ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

3. [+67, -0] Even though Shaun isn't the lyricist, isn't it a problem that he still released the song after checking the lyrics?

4. [+22, -0] It would make sense if a title track is climbing back on the chart but a b-side that's not even issued is #1 on the chart ㅋㅋㅋㅋ At this point, his dirty title track is gonna become issued ㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+12, -0] What's funnier is that the song isn't +19 rated ㅋㅋㅋㅋ It's a problem that elementary school kids can listen to this song.

6. [+10, -0] Who's the lyricist? So disgusting. Is he talking about himself?

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Apink's self-styled pink suits

Pann: Girl group that self-styled for music show

1. [+90, -11] Honestly, the stage outfits for recent promotions were old-fashioned.

2. [+79, -6] Ah... I commented how Apink's coordi was doing a bad job because I thought this was the coordi's work. So it wasn't the coordi. Sorry, coordi-nim.

3. [+47, -17] Apink's recent promotions were daebak!!! Let's last for long <3

4. [+30, -1] Give it to the designers next time!

5. [+24, -1] Why don't they just focus on the performance... There's a reason why stylists and coordis exist.

6. [+15, -0] Sorry, coordi-nim... I said the color should've been light pink and called the coordi senseless but Apink is the one who's senseless. The blue stage outfits were the best.

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Lock screens that were popular 2 years ago

Seolhyun: Missed calls (3)

Seolhyun: I want to talk to you...

Park Bogum: I'm outside of your house

Park Bogum: Come out

Kim Junghwan: Goodnight

Ha Jung Woo: Missed call

Ha Jung Woo: I know what makes you worried and afraid

Ha Jung Woo: You just have to trust me

Ha Jung Woo: Not being able to see you is seriously killing me

Ma Dong Seok: Missed calls (500)

Ma Dong Seok: Park your car elsewhere you asshole

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Pann: Lock screens that were popular 2 years ago

1. [+72, -0] Ma Dong Seok ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 500 missed calls

2. [+28, -0] Ma Dong Seok though ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

3. [+17, -0] The Neighbors was a great movie ㅋㅋㅋㅋ The most matching movie of Kang Pool's movies.

4. [+7, -0] Burst into laughter at Ma Dong Seok ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+7, -0] 

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