From a cable sent this past February, published on WikiLeaks.org along with thousands of other classified State Department communication cables. Long live the Internet! C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 000248 SUBJECT: A/S CAMPBELL DISCUSSES DPRK FUTURE WITH EXPERTS Discussion Summary: A group of five ROK opinion leaders […]
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“the last snarls of a dying dictatorship”
With the recent publication of secret US Embassy Cables by WikiLeaks, the largest ever release of confidential documents into the public domain, I began to wonder if US State Department and Chinese Embassy officials discussions on North Korea were included. Of course I wasn’t the only one.. The New York Times today published an excellent […]
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North Korea’s (recent) Military Parade
This was just too good not to relay. Given major headlines today, the rhythm of their blind marching seems even more cryptic, and confronting with chaos. A big shout out to Mr. Burrows, wearing a suit and tie over there at craigburrows.com. He made a great short out of several original pieces of video from […]
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Tale from the Old Country
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Korean Wedding Number 1
One of the Korean Teachers got married and invited all of her fellow teachers to the wedding last January. That was pretty nice of her considering that we had just met only two months prior and never spoke.
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Gwangju Music Video
A two minute musical mix of Gwangju set to Relief Action by Ian Pooley. The video includes a few clips of Mudeung Mountain in the Fall and my old neighborhood of Bongseon-dong.
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Eating Live Octopus: 산낙지
Eating Raw Octopus from glassw4re on Vimeo. A sahn nak jee salad for dinner. The tentacles marinate themselves!
Seorak National Park from glassw4re on Vimeo. A short collection of seamlessly hand-blended videos from Seorak last December. It was a 6-hour bus ride from Gwangju to Sokcho, a Northern port city , and we must have gone through 100 tunnels to get there.
Songgwangsa: Spacious Pine Temple in Jeolla Province from glassw4re on Vimeo. Twenty kilometers to the west of Suncheon is one of Korea’s three most important temples of Zen Buddhism. Tucked away in the peninsula’s Southeast corner, surrounded by forests of bamboo and the low rolling hills of Jogye-San Provincial Park, is the International meditation center […]
Lantern Festival in Seoul 2009 from glassw4re on Vimeo. Minute and 30 second video of a lantern festival along the Cheonggyecheon Stream in center city Seoul, South Korea. Sponsored by the Korean Tourism Association in November of 2009 as part of a promotion for “Visit Korea Year.”