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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