Thursday, May 5, 2011

Children's Day and Stuff

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Today, I packed my bags, cleaned my officetel (who wants to come home from vacation to a dirty apartment?), and went off to the opening day...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

'Cinderella Law' and Other Teen News

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1) The major papers report on a new law from the National Assembly to ban those under age sixteen from playing online games after midnight (...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Coming Events

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My school has midterm exams this week, meaning I will walk to school, sit at my desk for a couple of hours, then walk back home, or wherever...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Never Know Who You Might Meet ...

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This post is actually no more or less than clearing out the images that happened to be on camera today! First thing this morning, I took ...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Education News

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1) Korean History will become a mandatory subject in Korean high schools starting next year, according to articles in the JoongAng Daily an...
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Street vendors driven out of Insa-dong

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Yesterday was the official celebration of 새마을운동 Saemaeul Undong , the "new village program" of the seventies and early eighties i...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

An Occurrence in Whitechapel

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"As you can see, something terrible has happened here! Your job today is to find out who this person is; who did this to them; and wh...
Monday, April 18, 2011

News From the North

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Springtime is creeping northward on the peninsula, and so is reaching the DPRK about now, hopefully giving its impoverished masses a few mom...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Yeouido Cherry Blossom Festival 2011

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Today was a fine day for a visit to Yunjungno, the avenue that circles Korea's National Assembly building on Yeouido--teeming with sight...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Survey Says

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I have been doing the same lesson back-to-back in my first grade classes the last two weeks. Well, it isn't the same lesson, per se , b...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

OB Golden Lager

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A new product from our friends at Oriental Brewery, OB Golden Lager claims to be made from 100% German Hop and Golden Malt, as you can see i...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Education News

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1) All the major papers are covering events at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute for Sciece and Technology), where four college students have ...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Off the Bookshelf

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The Queens of K-Town by Angela Mi Young Hur - Chick Lit set mainly in New York's Koreatown about a dysfunctional family with a kind of ...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Art and Tyranny, Part 2

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A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post about how tyrants like to control artists and artistic expresson in their countries. Specifica...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Don't Breathe the Yellow Dust

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... apologies to Frank Zappa. Nearly 1 million tons of contaminated sand is expected to sprinkle the country in the next two months, accor...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Korean Teenager News

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Instead of my usual "Education News Roundup" I'm going to focus on two stories from the paps reporting on survey results compa...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Tell Me Something Good

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Wow! One month of the new school year has already flown by! It's hard to believe. In the Big Scary World(TM), lots of crazy stuff ha...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

꽃샘추위

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The first official day of Spring was over a week ago now, back on March 20th, but you wouldn't know it on a typical weekday in Seoul. I...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Education News Roundup

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1) Covered by both the Times and Herald , the Korean education community reacts to the latest attempt to clarify and define strategies to r...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Notebooks and Cellphones

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Notebooks: On the bulletin board at the back of my classroom I have a list of class rules assembled from the "Class Rules" lesson...
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