how to contact I know this was 6 years ago but do you know how I could contact anyone from this league? I am in Bundang right now teaching English and am dying to play baseball again!
Thanks alooooot!!!! Man,,, you rock!!! You saved our day.. This is our 2nd day in Korea and my GF had to use the toilet so she asked me if I know how to flush and I had no freakin idea. She decided to take the kids to the pool anyways, while she's there I started searching youtube (which is full of assholes by the way) and asked her to keep trying different combination of buttons (just like you did) and ironically I came across your blog and read the whole thing including the comment and laughed my ass off while she's still combining the buttons...
is korea dreamland? Lot of people around the world is willing to live and work in usa, you can't say the same about korea, maybe because it is not the dreamland you say.
Amateur Baseball in Korea I will be teaching English in Korea and am interested in playing baseball somewhere when I arrive in the Seoul area. I played some college ball and would like to know more. Could you help me out?
No Open Try-outs There are no open tryouts for foreigners that I've heard of. However, I have been told that if you can contact a scout (or the right person) it is possible to get a private try-out. Good luck!
Dakgalbi please! Hello. I'm currently staying with relatives in bundang and looking for great places to eat! Would appreciate directions on the best dakgalbi ever and any other recs also greatly appreciated. Had dakgalbi in Los Angeles but no quail eggs. Was ok. Can't wait to try the real deal! Thanks!
This is a situation of love!!! hahaha sounds rare ?? ok I live in US and the love of my life is your fan She is from Korea where can I buy a hat ?????
please !!!!
Buy Doosan Bears Hat online Here's an online site where you can buy a Doosan Bears Korean baseball hat:
http://www.koreafashionmall.com/korea-baseball-team-cap-doosan-bears.html
I agree I'm a middle school student in Korea, and I totally agree about what you said.
Korean middle school students can solve calculus problems in a few minutes,
but they have a hard time doing creative research projects.
Western and Asian thought I enjoyed reading your article... I am writing a paper on the geography of thought between Western and Asian thinkers... do you have any resources I can find handy for my paper?
thanks a whole bunch
cjs
Glaring Incorrect information You paint Korea as this idyllic, peaceful place, but it isn't at all. Every aspect of Korean life is somewhat 'gang-like' in nature. Abuse on weaker, younger people is not uncommon. You do/say something wrong, you get hit. Bullying is very common and very harsh in Korea. Power relations and hiearchies are more strict and harsh.
On top of that, most people think the Korean police are incompetent and generally have no idea what they're doing. And behind close doors, they severely beat suspects into confessions of crimes. They don't confess out of guilt. They confess to stop the beatings and sometimes torture.
response Chicago and Washington DC had gun bans and sky high crime to prove it. Washington DC has seen a big reduction in crime in the last 2 years after the US Supreme court ruled their handgun ban and the ban on loaded guns in the home unconstitutional. 3 percent of the counties(24 percent of US Population) account for 70 percent of violent crime. Asians are the most law abiding group in the United States and most Asians I know are gun owners, especially the Koreans I know. Half of our gun problems are by products from the Narco economy created by our drug prohibition. Most criminals come from broken families. Fix our drug problem, rebuild families and create a government that encourages rather than penalizes people for hard work and our gun crime problems will self correct themselves. BTW, when facing a criminal and critical seconds count, 911 gets the police in minutes. My 1911 Colt 45 cal pistol gives me instant defense. 99 percent of the time armed citizens don't have to fire shots which is why 1.5 million Americans successfully defend themselves annually and only a few hundred criminals get killed by citizens. Unlike certain police departments, the armed citizens aren't trigger happy.
Clarity Seems a bit late to comment on this article but I feel compelled to add to the discussion anyway. It is generally accepted that statistics indicate strict gun laws do NOT reduce crime. For every example (such as yours) of nations with strict gun laws and low crime there is an opposite example of a nation with high accessibility to guns and low crime. A good example here is Switzerland which requires a good portion of the populace to keep an assault rifle at home and be competent in its operation yet has about half the homicide rate of South Korea. Likewise, case studies of areas that end up passing stricter gun laws do not support the argument that harsh gun laws reduce crime.
Crime has many, many factors that lead to its prevalence in a country such as culture, level of heterogeneity, stratification of economic classes, ability of the poor to survive comfortably, drug laws, medical accessibility, etc, etc. Gun laws is not a factor that has any large correlation to crime statistics.
Furthermore, there are a few main issues I'd like to bring up at this time. First, the argument that having a gun does not dissuade criminals only works because of the tendency for the majority of the populace NOT to carry guns. If criminals EXPECTED to be met with firearms during every attempted mugging they'd rethink their career choice very quickly. Secondly, strict gun laws are nearly impossible to enforce in a country with as large a population and as extensive borders as the United States. If a criminal wants a gun there is little we can do to stop him from getting it off of the black market. Lastly, it seems like you are making a huge generalization of Korean culture. Yes, their culture is arguably less diverse than American culture given heterogeneous background of the U.S. as a nation of immigrants as well as having a large territory for different cultural groups to remain fairly isolated and thus increase the cultural diversity but Korea's culture still has diversity. Not every South Korean is a happy, gentle smiling lady or fellow just wishing to smile and wave at every passer-by. South Korea has it's own muggers, rapists, gangs, and professional criminal organizations just like every other country in the world.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Looking to play Amateur Baseball Hello Kuno,
I'll be brief, I've been searching for 3-weeks to play Softball/Baseball on a team here in South Korea. I currently work at the Gyeonggi English Village in Paju, near Heyri Arti. Literally I am in my 4th work week, in SK. Any information on how to play or contact details would be helpful. Cheers Aaron
2005 - Graduated from University
2006 - Tended bar in college town
2007 - Lived and taught English in Korea, Traveled SE Asia and Oceania
2008 - Volunteered in Peru, Attended Burning Man, Drove Across the U.S.
2009 - Southern California, drove across the U.S. again.
2010 - Teaching in Korea - this time at a University.
Summer - Singapore and Malaysia
Winter - Thailand and Cambodia
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still around?
i live in seongnam and id love to check it out. Could you send me directions?