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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
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
Foreigners aren?t the Only Ones Bitchin?
2007-12-11 09:45:00 The Marmot has pointed out that hagwons and regional universities are upset over the new E-2 regulations. And they actually said that it treats all foreign teachers like criminals. So we’re not the only ones saying it. More About: Immigration , Foreigner , Foreigners
Visa Regulation Update
2007-12-11 04:17:00 EFL Geek has posted a translated email about the new E-2 visa requirements. Note that it does require criminal checks even if one is just renewing. The health check has to be done in Korea within three months of getting an Alien Registration Card. The criminal record needs to have an Apostille (some international ... More About: Regulation , Immigration , Update , Visa
Test Scores are Back
2007-12-11 04:04:00 December 7th was the day students got the results of the college entrance exams. Which means a jump in teen suicides. I’m not taking this lightheartedly. One of my high school friends shot himself after getting turned down by MIT. Something seriously needs to be done about this system. It’s not worth the loss of short-lived ... More About: Education , Back , Test , Scores
I?m as Popular as Jeong-Il Woo
2007-12-10 03:53:00 Yeah, I don’t know who he is either. Yet the Sports Hanguk (translated by Korea Beat) felt it was newsworthy enough to report that he takes the subway, where he even points out which stations he enters and exits. He then goes on about how even though he wears a disguise of a hoodie and ... More About: Popular , Pula
The World Subway
2007-12-07 01:24:00 Come on, you love maps! Strange Maps has a world map connecting each city with a rail system, including Korea’s seven cities. Found this through I’m a Seoul Man in Tokyo. More About: World , The World , Subway
Dr. Jack Outshines Rain
2007-12-07 01:17:00 POPSEOUL! points out that in the latest promo clip for the upcoming Speed Racer flick, where Rain throws a punch at Racer X (Matthew Fox, Lost)–he didn’t get any interviews out of it. More About: Entertainment , Jack
Korean Dinosaur, #1
2007-12-07 01:05:00 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P tyzc4BQliY] This is so not-PC but funny nonetheless. It’s from Just Kidding Films. [Occidental found this before me.] More About: Video , Korean
Told Me
2007-12-06 02:11:00 Matt at Gusts of Popular Feeling, in his trademark style, has digested the different arguments for and against the Wonder Girls into something more balanced. If you’re interested in stuff like that. Basically, he sums it up like this: Don’t get all riled up about the music and the dancing. The marketing of young teenagers as ... More About: Entertainment , Told
Dreary.
2007-12-06 01:49:00 I just checked the AccuWeather widget in the right column. It says, “Dreary.” Even the weather service is suggesting I should stay home today.
Korean English: 14th Out of 15
2007-12-05 14:52:00 [HT to Nomad] One of the many English tests out there, the IELTS English proficiency test, placed South Kore a at 14 out of 15 countries who participated. Germany was number one. Some of the other countries in the top have ample English-speaking populations. Nonetheless, 14 out of 15? I guess mothers telling teachers how to ... More About: Education , Korean
What?s There to Go Home to?
2007-12-05 14:38:00 Western Confucian founder Joshua Snyder ponders a question I have been asking since my first year here. (Well, of course, there are family and friends, but beyond that…) More About: Society , Home
To Walk or Shred??
2007-12-05 03:10:00 Whitey, in 287 words, was able to recount two amusing conversations/stories and a playful dig at the Metropolitician. More About: Stories , Walk
Move Over Movember
2007-12-05 02:58:00 PhoenixStorm of KissMyKimchi has won the mustache prize. Oh, just read it! More About: Move
An A-OK Visa?
2007-12-05 02:19:00 The Metropolitician writes a proposal for fixing the visa system for English teachers in his trademark brevity. More About: Immigration , Visa
EFL Geek?s Immigration Lowdown
2007-12-03 06:22:00 EFL Geek has posted some of the latest constantly changing information on the December 15th immigration changes. More About: Immigration
Today?s Engrish
2007-12-03 06:04:00 BusanMike found this one (original here). I myself have found a few interesting ones this weekend, including a gel to get rid of all your troubles. I think we all need this. And this is just WRONG! And this isn’t really Engrish . It’s a map in the Apgujeong Subway Station. How did I know it was ... More About: Today
The Lady Pouch
2007-12-03 03:14:00 PhoenixStorm of KissMyKimchi found this delectable edible (bottom right) at a sandwich shop ironically named Bang Pane. I’d make the usual lewd jokes, but they would be too predictable. Feel free to add some yourself. More About: Lady , Engrish
Post-apocalyptic Seoul
2007-11-30 16:32:00 I Am Legend, the new sci-fi movie starring Will Smith, has (what I think) is a clever little poster marketing campaign. They’ve made banners for many of the world’s major cities–all devastated. I had to do a double take on the subway last night. “Isn’t that the 63 Building?” Yep. To see more major cities in ruins, ... More About: Entertainment , Post , Seoul
Beat Them Into Submission!
2007-11-30 15:53:00 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S h6J7rw39dM] Busan Mike posted this video with a little background on what’s going on here. This is a little speed skating lesson at the ice rink in Lotte World (not in Busan… Mike was visiting Seoul). You can hear the whacks of the stick even from way up where this video was taken. And notice how ... More About: Video , Submission , Beat , Missi
The Singing Highway
More articles from this author:2007-11-30 05:54:00 Amusing… if you haven’t already seen it on Yahoo! or ABC News. More About: Video , Highway , Singing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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