Cheonan sinking 72 (45%)

North Korea tensions 97 (61%)

Apple vs. Samsung 15 (9%)

The G20 summit comes to Seoul 32 (20%)

Korea makes World Cup round of 16 24 (15%)

Japan apologizes for colonial Korea 14 (8%)

Kim Jong-il, meet Kim Jong-eun 38 (24%)

F1 auto race in Jeollanam-do 5 (3%)

Korea's Winter Olympics success 17 (10%)

Korea's Asian Games success 2 (1%)

Expensive kimchi / veggies 32 (20%)

Not surprisingly, North Korea was on many people's minds; I have a feeling we'll be seeing and hearing a lot more about South Korea's northern neighbors in 2011.

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Biggest expat news story of 2010? (for Korean readers - choose up to 3)

Unequal AIDS testing rules 29 (50%)

Brian in Jeollanam-do leaves Korea 9 (15%)

Changes to E-2 teaching visas 38 (65%)

Quincy Black 7 (12%)

Canadian-Korean charged with murder in Canada 3 (5%)

Robot English teachers 15 (25%)

Hit pieces by Korean 'journalists' 15 (25%)

Threats to teachers' jobs understandly make up the biggest portion of the biggest stories. That's basically one of the only areas that affects just the foreigners in Korea...

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