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  • COEX and Ho Lee Chow

    After our visit to the Mario Outlets at Gasan Digital Complex, my mind (which habitually strives for logical ideas) has developed a new appeciation for fashion. Is this normal for a poverty stricken molecular biology student who grew up on hand-me-downs and is proud of the various stains on his white labcoat?

    Sure, I think.
  • Greatest American Lyricists

    I had the pleasure today, while driving in my Cadillac Car and listening to the radio...

    I had the pleasure of listening to Bruce Springsteen singing, Thunder Road,
    a rare live version, with no guitar or bass or drums, just Roy Bitian on piano
    while Bruce sung the song’s lyrics.  The screen door slams.  Mary’s dress waves. 
    Like a vision she dances across the floor as the radio plays.  Roy Orbison sang
    for the lonely Hey that’s me and I want you only…

  • Quote Dump #2

    "Yeah, apparently a teacher in Britain was arrested. On him they found a pencil, eraser, ruler, protractor and compass. They said he was part of the Al Gebra network, and that he had weapons of math instruction!"
  • spring water

    There have been some big changes since the move.  One I notice most often is the garbage and recycling cycle and it’s effect on us.  Food recycling is collected everyday but recycling is only picked up once every two weeks.

    One positive effect of this policy is that I don’t buy two-litre bottles of water all the time.  Instead, I take this five litre bottle to the local spring and fill up.

  • Destination: Son Gi Jeong Park



    It's fairly rare to have a park named after a person. It's even rarer when that person is someone most Koreans couldn't tell you about. Depending on how you transliterate 손기정 into English, it can be 'Son Gi Jeong', Son Ki Jeong', 'Son Gi Jung', 'Son Ki Jung', or just 'Songijeong' as one of the signs put it.
  • [Eleven] 사랑니 Wisdom Teeth

    Hello everyone,  안녕하세요 ^^

    I hope you are doing well! I haven't posted an article on my blog for a long time; but I do update my twitter pretty often. I update current events in English and Korean, and information about Korean entertainment news, K-Pop, Korean language, and more! Please Follow sunflowerchoco on Twitter
  • Korea's Overseas Volunteer Corps 3rd Largest in World

    Korea's corps of overseas volunteers is the third largest in the world, statistics revealed on Sunday. According to the statistics by the state-run Korea International Cooperation Agency, Korea sends 1,000 new volunteers to 43 countries every year, third only to the Peace Corps of the U.S. (3,801 volunteers to 72 countries) and the Japan's Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (2,000 volunteers).
  • Over Half of Young People Ignorant About Korean War

    More than half of South Korea's young people know little or nothing about the defining moment in their country's history, a fresh survey confirms. In a Gallup poll of 1,703 people nationwide over 13 for the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, only 60.9 percent of respondents correctly answered that it broke out in 1950, but 39.1 percent did not know when it broke out or gave a wrong answer.

    Among teenagers, 62.9 percent did not know when the war started, and among those in their 20s the figure was 58.2 percent.

    Full Chosun Ilbo article:
  • Tourist Troubles in Korea?

    The Korea Herald published an article called "Tourists Irked by Shopping, Taxis." Basically, it followed the complaints of Japanese and Chinese tourists, that they feel they are getting ripped off by taxis and have had a few issues with customer service and shopping.  It was interesting to note that "Complaints from Westerners aren't as numerous."  I wonder if it's because of the style of guide books.
  • Relearning Canadian Pedestrian Etiquette

    When I was walking around Ottawa with a friend of mine earlier this week, she kept hopping behind me as people approached us. It was bizarre and made me uncomfortable. Was she afraid of the Ottawa locals? Had she recently been mugged? 

    "Why are you doing that?", I asked (in the impolite, heavily accented townie dialect I've been quick to readopt in the weeks since my return).

    "There's somebody coming." She gave me a strange look.

    "So?"

    A long pause followed. Then, it hit me. 

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