Screw War Let's TeachThree months now of studying Korean, and according to my Korean teacher, I am a master of incomplete sentence structure. It’s hard. Verbs are especially difficult to get a hold of because the form is changed to suite necessary and nonsensical formalities of everyday Korean conversation. For instance, moak da (목다) means eat, but to […]
U.S. President Barack Obama will be given an honorary taekwondo belt to mark his first visit to Korea on Wednesday and Thursday. A government official said that President Lee Myung-bak will present Obama with an honorary taekwondo degree certificate and a uniform embroidered with his name. He obtained a green belt. Obama practiced taekwondo for […]
In Korea, if you want the price lowered, you say “ga ga joosayo”. Hahaha. I think this is hilarious, and apparently so do some Koreans. The one time I used “ga ga joosayo” this past weekend at a jewelery store, the clerk flat-out laughed in my face. Then she called over the manager, repeated the […]
There have been two Korea’s since the end of World War II; The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North) and the Republic of Korea (South). This past weekend on our trip to Seoul, we toured a small part of the Demilitarized “buffer” zone (DMZ) between the two countries. It was Friday he 13th, and just […]
Pepero, yet another product from the all encompassing Korean conglomerati known as Lotte, apparently has it’s own day. November 11th, Armistice Day in other parts of the world, is Pepero Day in South Korea — the tastiest and most ridiculous holiday of them all. South Koreans buy and give away hoards of the chocolate dipped […]
Pictures from the southern most province in South Korea on a beautiful November day; sunny and 70’s.
Gwangju World Cup stadium this year was the venue for the Kimchi Cultural Festival; a seven day celebration (without mud or mind altering drugs) of all things inspired by vegetables rotting in a ceramic jug. For anyone that does not live in Korea or shop the isles of obscurity at your local grocer, kimchi most […]
Friday night; another roller coaster ride through the Korean hagwon crashes and burns with my Friday afternoon class. Breaking into my trivial conversation with a student, she throws both middle fingers high into the air with a proud look of defiance– as if to say, “Hey, look what someone showed me… Fuck you.” But all […]
As October rears it’s weary head, Autumn foliage dots the jagged horizon with an array of different colors, and the weather finally feels like New England; cold, windy, and wet. It even snowed today, but not enough to stop all the Kias, Daewoos, and ram air hood scooped Mini-Vans from their high speed evening commutes. […]