Blogs from South Korea, Asia - page 376

Sorry About That I'm lazy and it's late, but I wanted to get back on the blog to let everyone know I'm not dead. I'll edit this later, so that there will be pictures. But for now. Dancing Santa Today I met with one of my conversation partners. On the way to the coffee shop, we passed a store with dancing Santa Claus robot in the window. It did sort of a hip shimmy, and it was dressed in a black sweatsuit, instead of the traditional Xmas red and white. It was like Santa Claus doing Jolly Training for the winter. I imagine a table laden with thousands of cookies, and Santa with a scared rabbit look in his eyes, as part of the training, as well as some sort of obstacle course made of shingles. ... read more

I arrived in Seoul, South Korea after a very very long flight. I had to change planes twice and had a two hour layover both in Chicago and Tokyo. I had randomly started talking to a girl who was boarding the plane to go to Tokyo at the same time as me. I asked her if her name was Olivia because I knew that a couple was going to be on that plane with me who was going to be teaching at the same school as I. Indeed, I guessed correctly because there was only a few foreigners boarding the plane. I also saw her Canadian passport at the check in. I had them to talk to on the long layover in Tokyo. Olivia and I had a lot to talk about on the plane. ... read more

This weekend turned out to be a crazy weekend of shopping. We were shopping on Friday at the Dongdaemun Market after work until 1:30, this huge late night market with lots of knock off stuff. I found size 9 shoes!. All day on Saturday we shopped at a more traditonal market with really neat clothes, foods and pottery. We bought so much jewerley between the three of us. Of course, we went back late Saturday afternoon to get prepared for a late Saturday night party! Kim made dinner again, chicken and pasta. A couple of people met at our apartment and we made our way to Sinchon. We went to a cool bar called "the doors", it was all our 80's rock music, Gun's and Roses , Bon Jovi etc and the bar had pics of ... read more

I ended up going to a city, Bulguksa, or a park...again I can't really remember, but it was just full of beautiful temples. I went with my girlfriend, it was alot of fun!!!!!!!!!... read more

Or maybe "Korea-Are we really liberated in Liberation Day?" by Charlie August 15, 2005 - Liberation Day Original story with many photos and links - http://ajarncharlie.livejournal.com/7772.html 60 years later, what price prosperity? Is South Korea on a tightrope? Today is South Korean 'Liberation Day' and feeling rather 'liberated' (as it is a holiday), I am sitting here scanning the headline news articles of Today's 'Korea Herald'. On the front page however I see the headline, '4.2 Mil. Pardoned on Liberation Day'. Huhh? I thought this was South Korea, not the north. How in the world can this western industrialized country of 48.3 million people pardon 4.22 million of its citizens? Or in other words, nearly 10% are recognized 'criminals'?! Pardon is a pretty strong word, so let's hope it also refers to people with parking tickets ... read more