Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Every Wednesday at Noon ...

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... in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, a handful of hal-muh-ni (grandmothers) gather to speak truth to power. On this day, it was...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Happy Pepero Day!

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A week or so ago, I noticed a large chocolate-and-pink-balloons-and-hearts display at E-Mart-uh (see below), and thought to myself, Weird. V...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Kim Jong-il Watch

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It is pretty well known that evil North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has not been seen in public since late August. Rumors have spread that he...
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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Coat Rack as Metaphor

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So it's Sunday. That means after cleaning and tidying my flat I made my weekly trip to E-Mart-uh for a Whopper with cheese. Not that I...
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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Yanghwajin

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I spent today with older Mr Lee and Miss Cho at the Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery in Hapjeong-dong and two attached sites--a Cathol...
Friday, November 7, 2008

Suicide Veggies!

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A while ago, I wrote in a post titled Martyrdom in the Animal Kingdom , about a website called Suicide Food, wherein an overwrought vegetari...
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Thursday, November 6, 2008

What Government is For, Korean Edition

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"Adoption of English as Official Language Proposed" for Korea, according to an article today in The Korea Times. Yeah, good luck w...

Politics is like ...

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Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D. --unattributed We just changed direction. Hopefully, we...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Prepositions: Language's Little Helpers

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Honest to God, if you asked me a few years ago what a preposition was, I would have said, It's some damn part of speech. No idea. I a...
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Monday, November 3, 2008

Interpellation: What It Means To Me

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While the US political system is in the throes of arguably the most important election since 1932, the Korean National Assembly began its fi...
Sunday, November 2, 2008

Neighborhood Art

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I took a nice long walk today in the crisp autumn air with my camera, and snapped some photos of public art installations in my neighborhood...