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YouTube Korea, Fighting!
2008-01-23 14:47:00 YouTube has come to Korea , and they featured our old friend Michael Hurt (Scribblings of the Metropolitician, Feetman Seoul) at the press conference, where he had made a welcome video. (That’s our camera shy Mike in the middle.) I also found out that the video I made with my students, Clash of the Superkids, is on the front page (as of this typing) and getting a lotta hits. What’s funny is that my students would likely care less. They just had fun making it. More About: Youtube , Fighting
Audition to be the New Korean Pop Star
2008-01-22 03:42:00 POPSEOUL! reports that uber-producer JYP held auditions at Seoul Arts High School on January 19th and 20th for four people he can mold into the next pop star. Apparently 3,000 people signed up for the audition. I’m a bit late in catching on to the news (and signing up for the audition). Yet I can imagine the karmic payback for JYP with likely 2,500 people auditioning with the “Tell Me” dance. More About: Korean , Star , Audition
When You Just Need a Pineapple
2008-01-22 03:35:00 Joshua at An American in Geoje observed an amusing emergency pineapple incident. More About: Pineapple
Seoul Survivors: Jennifer Goes to a Dog Market
2008-01-19 08:01:00 This is one of the funnier episodes of Seoul Survivors . More About: Market , Jennifer
“The Host” is on the List
2008-01-18 02:14:00 I again got suckered into reading one of those numbered list articles. This time it was Entertainment Weekly’s list of classic giant movie monsters. South Korea’s The Host makes the list. More About: List , The Host , The List
Korean Driving Lesson
2008-01-18 01:00:00 Korean blogger Seoul Searcher has some tongue-in-cheek advice for foreigners daring to drive in South Korea. More About: Driving , Korean , Lesson
Goodbye, Dongdaemun Stadium
2007-12-21 03:02:00 Matt at Gusts of Popular Feeling has a detailed post about the demolition of Dongdaemun Stadium , along with the history of migrating street vendors from the Chongyecheon project to Dongdaemun to now and how this is part of a long-planned redevelopment scheme (for better or worse). More About: History , Goodbye
G.I. Lee
2007-12-21 02:50:00 In case you haven’t heard, Korean actor Lee Byung-hun has been cast as Storm Shadow in the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. Supposedly, the plot revolves around the rivalry between Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes, who will be played by Ray “Darth Maul” Park. More About: Entertainment
Dear Mr. Drunken Ajosshi?
2007-12-21 02:39:00 Gord Sellar writes a letter to the drunken middle-aged man who tried to assault him for not waving back to him at the subway station. Luckily, he has learned from the School of the Metropolitician to run, duck and cover. Oh, and we see that ZenKimchi’s bathtub cheese recipe is spreading. More About: Stories
Kiss My B-Boy
2007-12-21 02:28:00 PhoenixStorm at Kiss My Kimchi has a positive review of the show B-Boy Korea. More About: Entertainment
A Christmas Memory
2007-12-21 01:45:00 From Seoul Searcher. More About: Christmas , Stories , Memory
El Presidente
2007-12-20 06:18:00 This is the obligatory post that Lee Myung-bak has won the Korean presidency in a landslide. The Marmot has pretty much summed up my feelings on this. I’m not so sure what’s great about having a “CEO president.” Wasn’t George W. touted as the “CEO presdient” in 2000? We see how well that turned ... More About: News and Views
Darn Foreigners
2007-12-19 12:26:00 What is it with these foreigners getting drunk, being unruly and getting arrested? Well, at least they’re going to deport them for being “undesirable aliens.” More About: Foreigner , Foreigners
Unruliness #1
2007-12-18 12:23:00 Oh yes, another survey… Park Si-soo of The Korea Times reports on a survey done by the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI), where it asked foreigners and Koreans what the biggest factors that hurt Korea’s image in the world. It’s funny that foreign and Korean respondents agreed on the first three in order: public rudeness, xenophobia and social corruption. It also concluded from some other data that there is a shortage of Korean language institutes for foreigners.
33% Claim Virginity
2007-12-18 04:26:00 Korea Beat reports on an OnStyle TV channel survey of 512 single women between the ages of 20-34. Sixty-seven percent of them admit that they have had sex. Of course, my perverted Western male mind reads this as — 33% are claiming to be virgins? More About: Virginity
Gonzo Meets Star Wars
2007-12-18 03:55:00 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W ffwg7pA0t8] The worst Star Wars trumpet solo ever! And the choreography! I have no words… More About: Gonzo
Subway History
2007-12-18 02:44:00 Matt at Gusts of Popular Feeling has posted more on his continuing exploration of the development of the area near Gimpo Airport, particularly the gradual opening of the line 5 subway route in the mid to late 1990s. What I found the most interesting is the subway station on line 5 that was built 11 years ago in a field that has never been opened. More About: History , Subway
That Night Map
2007-12-17 12:27:00 This has made its rounds for years. Recently on Strange Maps. No matter how old it is, I’m a map freak, and stuff like this never gets old. Also check out these political cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, where the fate of Korea in the 20th century started its dark journey. Liliputian Chinese stand behind their wall and watch as Liliputian Japanese pull the boots off of the Russian Gulliver sleeping on the north end of the Korean Peninsula. More About: Night
The Robbyist
2007-12-17 04:47:00 Oh, that was cold. But not nearly as cold as this show that the Marmot describes. You know, the intrigue and making the American intelligence services out to be the villains doesn’t bother me so much. We do it in our own TV shows and movies. Yet the whole thing about the American husband beating his wife and niece and attempting to rape the niece… that theme is becoming too common and more and more offensive. If you want to leave a comment on their site, follow this link (use Microsoft Internet Explorer, of course). You will have to sign up for an account. For some reason, I can’t get “Foreign in domestic” sign up to work, but “Foreign in overseas” led me to a sign up page in Korean and English. You have to create an ID with all lower case letters and upload a photo of your ID card. I’ll update when/if I hear back and get approval or not.
Immigration Rules in The Herald
2007-12-16 12:20:00 The Korea Herald has a good-sized article on the E-2 visa regulation changes along with the controversy surrounding them. (HT to Nomad) More About: Immigration , Rules
Podcast on the End of the Korean Wave
2007-12-14 05:43:00 The Metropolitician has posted a new podcast called, “Korean Wave Ebbing.” I haven’t finished listening to it, but I did listen long enough hear a shout out to ZenKimchi. And also, I’d post the feed in the Podcast s feeds, but there is no podcast feed for the MetroCasts. More About: Entertainment
Translation Found
2007-12-14 02:55:00 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5 MV7Sym8bIQ] It’s been floating around for a while. If you’re dying to finally know what Bob Harris whispers in the final scene to Lost in Translation here it is.
Age and Language
2007-12-14 02:05:00 Seoul Searcher has two insightful posts about the Confucian obsession with age and the lingual schizophrenia of being a Korean born in the 1930s. More About: Society , Language
Korean Style on Western Men
2007-12-14 01:52:00 Feetman Seoul’s salsaqn (I think it’s Salsa Queen) treated her friend Matt like a Ken Doll and tried him out on Korean men’s fashion. More About: Entertainment , Style , Western
E-2 Rules Delayed?
2007-12-13 05:59:00 I’ve heard from a source this morning that an Immigration official at the Mokdong office said that the new E-2 visa regulations have been delayed from December 15th to some time in March 2008. Of course, this was just one official at one Immigration department. And this particular department is notorious for having different answers ... More About: Rules
Crazy Taxi
2007-12-13 02:52:00 So, how many of you have shared Ex-Pat Jane’s experience of taking a cab just to have the driver jump out of his own vehicle at a traffic light to buy something at Family Mart? More About: Crazy , Taxi
Help Clean
2007-12-13 02:50:00 Well, if the Taean fisherman can’t clean up the oil spill, maybe the foreign community can. More About: Community , Clean
Scary Ass Cats
2007-12-13 02:41:00 South Korean scientists have cloned cats that glow in the dark. Would you want to see something like this coming at you in a dark alley? Does anyone in South Korea watch horror movies or science fiction? They warn us of this stuff. First it was Terminator/Robocop robots with guns. Now it’s demon glowing cats. Next they’ll produce ... More About: Technology , Cats , Scary
Santa Exams
More articles from this author:2007-12-11 15:17:00 Speaking of exams, well, Korea is an exam culture, owing to its Confucian traditions going back to China where the best jobs were working in the Chinese bureaucracy (back then considered a good thing and pretty advanced). I Dream Therefore I Am points out that even the Santa s at Everland have to take exams. More About: Exams 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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