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- Experience Korea UCC Video Contest 2010, February 23, Tue
I found a contest sponsored by ExperienceKorea.org where you can win up to 5,000,000 won. That's 5 million won! It seems all you have to do is create a video which shows how to make any type of Korean food. You can create a "unique, special Korean food recipe" or a recipe that is "simple to follow, easy to get ingredients of, and of course, taste good". Upload that video to youtube and you're all set! Submit your videos between March 1st and March 31st. You'll have some stiff competition if you enter since you'll be up against the fine folks here at JustEnoughKorean.com but give it a shot! Check out the contest here: http://www.experiencekorea.org/summary_01.asp?nation=en... - What to Avoid Eating at a Hof in South Korea 2010, February 15, Mon
Around midnight one April’s eve, Jermil and I found ourselves combing the streets of Geojedo for some eats. Many establishments had already closed, but we found a small Hof. (You might be asking yourself, what is a Hof? It’s a Korean-style bar or pub, and there are thousands of them in Korea.) We couldn’t read the menu, but upon entering the hof, I spied a delicious stir-fry platter being served. It was everything I wanted: veggies, protein and a side of rice. Sold! Below I recount some of the dialogue that follows the hot stone stir-fry plate being delivered to our table: Candice: (examining the stir-fry up-close) Um. That meat doesn’t look familiar. Jermil: (looking confused) Yeah...what is that? You know what, I’m up for anything, I’ll try it. Candice: (looking skeptical, but slightly relieved) Yes, good, you try it first. Jermil takes a bite of “meat” and the look of nervousness turns to a look of disgust as a loud CRUNCH sound comes from his mouth. Candice: Are you... - Lotte World: The Disneyland of Seoul, South Korea 2010, February 08, Mon
How to get to Lotte World Jermil and I love skating in the winter, and Seoul Travel and Culture magazine mentioned Lotte World Amusement Park houses, in addition to all of the typical thrill rides, a skating rink as well. Although it’s a bit of a trek to Jamsil from where I live (the North Western part of Seoul), we hopped on the Seoul Subway Line 2 and braved the 40 minute subway ride. Buy the “Special Pass”! Lotte World was worth the journey, we ended up not skating at all, but instead, we purchased the “Special Pass” and got some sort of foreigner discount that ended up costing each of us about 31 000 won. Lotte World Amusement Park was an idyllic getaway from humdrum Seoul living. The music, the smells, and the happiness in the air had Jermil and I smiling the whole time we were there. We rode roller coasters, dropped from the sky on the “Gyro Drop”, and got a little wet on the log flume ride. We were just steps away from performers in sporadic parades that happened...
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- Sweeping floors to kill babies – Is Korea’s anti-abortion law working? 2010, March 18, Thu
Abortions were once so frequent and popular in South Korea that the country gained the dubious honor of being declared the "Abortion Republic," at least according to the AP (March 18, 2010). Even though the Korean government in 1953 had banned abortions except for in cases of rape, incest, or severe genetic defects, abortions were performed almost openly and for only a couple of hundred dollars (I am sure they were even cheaper than that depending on the year). According to this editorial in Korea Herald (March 8, 2010): The Criminal Code provisions on abortion are nearly dead. The law allows for up to one year in prison and a 2 million won in fine for women who have illegal abortions, and up to two years in jail for the doctors who provide them. A sample survey in 2005 estimated that there were 340,000 abortions carried out in a year. Out of that many cases, only about 30 have been brought to the court over the past five years, mostly resulting in probation or fines. This ye... - Exchange Students Sexually Assaulted Girl at Korean Church in Toronto? 2010, March 18, Thu
Christ, this is ugly. Yonhap reports that the Foreign Ministry is investigating a report in the Canadian gyopo press that several Korean exchange students in Toronto sexually assaulted a teenage Korean girl at a Korean church they attended in March of last year. According to the report, the Canadian police have arrested three suspects, but another three are on the lam in Korea. According to the Seoul Sinmun report, a total of nine exchange students are implicated in the assault, in which the girl was apparently locked up at the church. Marmot's Note: Why is this making the news just now? - Jang Sa-ik in the Korea Times 2010, March 18, Thu
The KT interviews Korean singer Jang Sa-ik. You can find Jang's homepage here. I was lucky to interview him a couple of years ago -- one of the nicest, most unpretentious artists I've met. If you haven't listen to his music yet, you're really doing yourself a disservice.
- March Photo Classes! 2010, March 03, Wed
You can sign up for the Facebook event and get contact information here. THE COURSE: Four 3-hour sessions, as well as shooting sessions, photo discussions, and critiques, meeting on 4 consecutive Saturdays from 11am-2pm. Session 1: Just the Basics Dealing with the basic operations and functions of your DSLR, explaining each function, button, and doo-hickey. The bulk of the session is likely going to stick around the relationship between aperture and shutter, as well as depth-of-field. Basically everything on your camera has something to do with this relationship. Session 2: Composition and Shooting (Shooting Session 1) We'll take those examples and look at them on the big screen, while also answering the concrete questions that will pop up about the stuff we learned before. Then we'll talk about composition and other framing issues, including lens lengths and why some lenses are worth $100 bucks and some are worth $10,000. Session 3: Flashes and Advanced Exposure (Shooting Sessi... - Guess I'm Not the Only One Who's Noticed 2010, February 14, Sun
I've been saying it for the last few years: it seems Korea is becoming more and more violent, marked by my anecdotal notes of how many more cases of direct, unprovoked violence both I and my friends have been experiencing over the past few years. I'm talking from anti-foreigner frustrations to the students in the exchange programs I both participate in and partially administer being subject to many more violent encounters. And in terms of violence against women, in a single year recently, I had more female friends and acquaintances be the victims of violent attempted sexual assaults. But of course, pointing out that when I came in the mid-1990's, I never worried about my personal safety here in Korea, nor did I worry about that of my female friends. But Korea in the 2000's is different. I know it in my bones, because I DON'T feel safe anymore, assured in the belief that if I don't mess with someone, I won't get messed with. Nor do I feel safe about sending my female friends home by... - Came Too Early... 2010, February 03, Wed
...which leaves one unnecessarily feeling spent and a bit silly. I didn't want to be late, so I hopped cab because I thought the late-night snow might bog things down. Er, not. Here's me in the cafeteria after the snack store lady rescued me from the very real possibility that I would've frozen my ass right off my body had I had to wait outside a locked school for an hour. Blog posted here.
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- Psst. 2007, June 15, Fri
It's a secret to everybody. I moved. Don't tell anyone. - 끝 2007, February 12, Mon
To quote the great poet lauret of my times, M.C. Hammer, "We outta here baby!" At present I am way out of South Korea for at least two years, but more likely than not, for keeps. That's right kids, I'm back in the US and A. Now I could take this time to get all misty-eyed and recap the good times, possibly with some sort of montage set to the Green Day song, "Time Of Your Life," but where would the fun in that be. So instead I'm going to report on the ten things I will not miss once I leave the country that has been my home these past four years. 1. Random people pointing at me and declaring: a) "Hello," or some other random English phrase and then laughing at however I respond. b) "Wow a foreigner!" 2. 회식. Not so much the meal itself, but the fact that they are pretty much mandatory here. Seriously I have better things to do on a Friday evening that hit up noraebang with the boss. 3. Vomit on the streets. 4. Gag Concert, 웃찾사, et. al. I could live here a tho... - In Which I Do More In One Day Than I Did During The Entire Year 1996 2007, January 29, Mon
So yesterday I was kind of busy... For starters it was my sister-in-law's wedding day, so for whatever reason we had to get up at the crack of dawn (regardless of the fact that the wedding wasn't until 12:00). I didn't have a lot to do to prepare. My suit was already pressed, so all I had to do was get a shower and a shave going on and then stay out of the way of others. I did this by playing Feel The Magic on my my wife's Nintendo DS. Anyhow a couple hours later it was 10:15 and we were on our way into Seoul. Why did we leave so early? Apparently to beat the non-existant traffic. Some 25 minutes later we arrived. It is apparently the duty of those family members who aren't getting married that day to play host. At first I was assigned the task of collecting the envelopes of money and giving out meal tickets to people who arrived, but some uncles took that task from me leaving me to stand by the door and shake the hands of people ranging from those I've seen 10 or so time, to...
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