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( “PERMA N STANT 6″ by displace) In my quest to find the original, creative and/or quirky in Korean life, I’ve decided that I’m not going to confine myself just to examples in Korea, which would deny me the opportunity to write about the numerous examples of Korean art exhibited outside of the country by Koreans too. While [...]

 ( “Entering Hyperspace” by Mister Wind) Sorry for the blog being unavailable for most of Sunday, but WordPress has been having technical issues again. Fortunately, most websites lose a lot of visitors on weekends anyway, although I confess I’ll never understand why that would also apply to this particular blog…I mean, who wouldn’t want to be at home reading it on a [...]

I never believed my parents when they told me that The Twist was risqué in its time, but after seeing this video, I'm starting to understand:

(Photo by annick777) Introduction At least by the editors of women’s magazines anyway (with apologies to the S&M crowd). Sure, your first impression may well be that in that sense then almost all women like “being told what to do,” but then the consensus of those that have actually studied the damn things (magazines I mean) is that in this part of [...]

Amazing footage of an African ANIMAL WAR, courtesy of mananath:



A nod to the amateur tourist video cameraman, who steadily captures all of the action.

A teacher in the great state of Idaho recently recently tossed his Mexican student's Mexican flag into a trash can.

When later asked for an explanation, he said that he put it into a garbage can because he "had no place else to keep it."

Ah, Idaho... where the teachers are dumber than the students.

One item that doesn't get much respect in modern societies is the washboard. Every year, more and more people abandon their washboards for fancy, electronic washing machines. Fortunately, the washboard is a multi-function tool that may soon see a resurgence in popularity. For example, here is a video showing a restaurant in Shinchon called 빨래판 which lets you eat straight off a washboard:

(Source) History or art? Most people would probably say the former, but then the mountain ranges and valleys in the map above have little relation to reality. Still, I think it’s an…ahem…simply beautiful piece of work myself, but unfortunately don’t know where it’s from. Can any museum-visiting readers help out? As you can probably guess, I’m quite a fan [...]

Coreana isn't just a cosmetics company known for inappropriate Nazi ads, it's also a sponsor of the arts. Here is a video showing the latest exhibit at the Coreana Arts Center in Apgujeong:



The song in the video is About Fun by Psapp.

Here's a clip that 홍성흔, catcher for the Korean baseball team the Doosan Bears, would probably most like people to forget about:

Recently, a certain Korean media outlet enlightened the world to the obvious Korean lack of genetic defenses to mad cow disease. Here is a video showing some of the patriotic heroes in this fight against dangerous, low-cost American cattle imports:

I’ve been so caught up with Korean women’s bodies recently (hey, it happens) that I’ve only just realised that I haven’t posted about original, creative, and/or quirky Korean art for a while now. Let me try rectifying that, starting with this cool painting made using a paintball gun:  Found at Mongdori here, which is quite a treasure trove of interesting videos [...]

I realize it`s been awhile since I`ve updated, but I still don`t have internet at home yet.

It` the end of japanese Golden Week and everyone will be forced to go back to work and school tomorrow. it will be my first day at the new job so I`m excited. Yesterday was Children`s Day. I happened to be on the waterfront at Meriken Koen yesterday to see some of the festivities. Check`em out!

Children`s Day in Japan



I was also hiking again a few days ago on Mt. Rokko in Kobe. I came across a little traditional Japanese house in a pretty sweet location.



Once I`m online at home I`ll update more frequently.

Here is a newsclip showing CCTV footage from yesterday's 16-foot wave that took the lives of at least 9 people along the Boryeong coast:

( “Gravity” by nickwheeleroz) Korea and the World At the end of Part One, I mentioned that the Korean education system is routinely held up as a model for the West by foreign observers, and gave an example from The Economist magazine here. Here is a more recent example from The New York Times too.  Now before I came to Korea, [...]

(Update: It was amusing watching this after midnight, when all the girls were asleep! But however much I like the music, I’m beginning to see how it could be annoying having it come up every time someone visits the blog in the next two weeks, so I’ve wisely made it come up on mute now!) Something for [...]

After many bad luck interventions and malignant acts of God, I finally have the internet in my home again. I picked up a decent computer from a friend who is leaving the country, along with a massive flatscreen monitor that was worth the uber-low price alone. So I'm back in the saddle. No longer will I just bang out missives from the safety of my office at work. I can once again stagger to the keyboard at 4 a.m. with a half-finished bottle of soju and bare my soul, charming the panties off of my female readers, inspiring the masses, and infuriating the odd no-life haters that are attracted to this here silly blog like moths to a flame.

Ah. I feel like Superman taking to the sky after the Kryptonite necklace has been removed...

Today is a beautiful morning, if you don't count the film of smog and dust lingering in the sky like pedophiles outside of a Hannah Montana concert. I'm drinking a cup of Batdorf and Bronson coffee (Olympia's best) and listening to a Woody Guthrie compilation (America's best). In a few minutes I go to meet the girlfriend for an overnight trip to Namhae, an island a couple of hours away from here, where we shall walk the seaside, eat raw fish, climb a small mountain, and hopefully breathe in some fresh-ish air.

And did I mention that it suddenly got HOT?

Theres an ongoing saying about foreigners coming to South Korea. They are either unpopular back home, running away from something, paying off debt, wanting to travel or all of the above.

I fit into three of those categories. I had debt I wasn’t comfortable with, haunted by images of a relationship past that was long dead, and I have the adventure bug in me that wants to see the world.

I came to South Korea, with the knowledge that I would learn to be comfortable alone and accept the fact that I won’t get married. Depressing eh? Well the truth is I do many things on my own and I am very comfortable doing them alone. I have been on several trips, I eat out I go to the movies. I meet a lot of new people that way. South Korea just enhanced that by giving me more things to do.

What that has done has helped me discover my love for hiking, and beaches and mountains. I have become comfortable in my own skin and regained my strength. It was on one of these solo jaunts that I met him.

Someone totally unexpected..never imagined anything would happen. He is funny, intelligent and tall. He challenges me, annoys me, loves me, surprises me and calms me. This wasn’t part of my plan. I’m a planner, I like to set goals and achieve them. This is hard to do when it comes to dealing with other humans. He messed up my plan and I have been having fun ever since.

I am at a crossroads now, between my old life and what is to come. I can feel that what is about to happen is about to be very good. But like Lot’s wife in the bible, its too tempting for me to look back at my old life. I am about to take the leap without knowing where I will land.

I think single women, like myself, here, we stereotype the foreign men in South Korea. Stereotypes always have some basis but the problem with stereotypes is they always discount a lot of people. I think if you are meant to date in South Korea it will happen. Until then, enjoy South Korea, enjoy yourself, don’t indulge in the pack mentality too much, spend a lot of time on yourself. If you don’t date here, at least you LIVED in South Korea. And by living I mean, doing more than getting drunk every weekend.

Today's featured video is a dramatic lip-sync to the heart-wrenching song 미친사랑의노래(Love's Crazy Song) by 씨야: