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Nice to see a post again!
A great post. Love the photo of the snow flake on Ashley's hair. Looking forward to more!

so proud
what a beautiful and enlightening experience you are having (and sharing ). i imagine by now you have gotten a goodly amount of snow. keep warm and healthy. LOL gram

yay
rebekah..i got to follow your footsteps to korea and it was very good. i must say i think you were able to see a lot more than me, but i think i had a different kind of drive in this case and just getting to the end of the application process was a victory for me. i still wish i had more time to see more of it. and i remember ji hyang! that was over 3 years ago... good luck with whatever you are doing now. :)

I guess that the odds of a white Christmas are as good in Alaska as anywhere. Someone told me a few years back that people should never go to Alaska until middle age, as the scenery is so stunning as to spoil a tourist for anywhere else. Judging from your pictures, my friend might have had a point.

akaraka coming again..
geez can't wait for it! only 4 days remaining until the crazy shouting!

Akaraka rocks!!!
I really miss Yonsei and Akaraka. 2 days is just TOOO short. I wish I could do the whole thing over again -_- *listening to akaraka songs right now*

No Picture!
Oh man, these shots are priceless. I still remember our tour guide freaking out while we were snapping of some covert-ops style photographs...

my humble opinion
i have no wish to be disrespectful to you, or even impolite. I don't even know you. Furthermore, I am not American and I hestitate to belitttle your nation--or anyone else's. I take issue with your comments--about the American media and the American president. Believe you me, I am no fan of George Bush (neither father nor son). George Bush is a disgrace to his nation his religion, and to all right-thinking and fair-minded people everywhere. The US, in its history, has done things that would shame hell--and some good stuff too. So has every other powerful nation throughout history. However, the faults of another nation (in this instance North Korea) or its president are not erased just because Geroge Bush opposes them. Left unchecked, North Korea could potentiially launch a nuclear attack on the US--and the US government has a duty and a responsibility to stop that. Sorry. I am a Canadian, living in Taiwan. We have PR China missiles pointed at us, and we live under a constant threat of invasion. I am not interested in anyone's "different perspective" on the government in Beijing--I want only to live in peace and security. So do North Koreans. So do Americans. Please do not let your disdain for the US blind you to the fact that North Korea is a basket case, with an "eternal" president. Its folk are starving. You can blame George Bush for many things (the useless deaths of hundreds of GI's and Marines in Iraq, for one thing), but the avoidable plight of the average North Korean is none of his doing. or America's. Or the media's. 6-25. That is what Koreans call the Korean War. If history serves me correctly, it was the North that did the invading. Millions of people, including North Koreans, endured unspeakable hardship and many lost loved ones and their own lives. you can't blame the US for that. However, history is history and blame is futile. All those poor people would be just as dead no matter who started the war. Nevertheless, I am interested in what you have to say and I will subscribe to your blog. Throughout history, governments have alwlays chosen enmies. You are holding hold the US to a higher standard of morality than you apply to other nations.

kickin' up dust
Bekah, Well, it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one whose blogs have encouraged some firey responses, and it's even better to know that you're continuing to speak your convictions in the face of less-than-constructive criticisms... Damn it, I love you. Srh

Not the true picture
You didn't see the real North Korea. The North Korea where the Dictator decides who eats and who starves. Why could you not take pictures from the bus? Why were there guards with guns every 20 meters? Why was this 5 star hotel empty? Why could you not talk to the North Korean people? These people do not have freedom, and so many of them are starving. You met a few of the people of North Korea but you did not see the true picture. Freedom is for all, and is what our Creator intended. "Well they don't know what freedom means so they don't miss it". And you are ok with this. You say: "I am not saying that I support this particular system; I am simply putting forth an idea that could possibly lead to the better understanding of their perspective and condition. " Don't be naive. These people don't deserve to live under this cruel Dictator. I saw a documentary, where a man from South Korea smuggled in a camera and hid it in his coat and filmed what really goes on there. Look into the truth.

House and Home
Home is an abstract idea, but it is possible to actually be there. I think that you lost touch of home moving so much when you were young, so your definition of home is tied up in "somewhere else". My home is at my parents house in a different city from where I actually grew up. I dont feel right there, but I do feel like its home. The formative period of my life is still captured in the area where they live, so thankfully it is still "home" to me. The place where I 'feel right' is probably like most people on this site- anywhere than where I am currently at!

sexy thang...
a bit of korea still lingering.... i miss you... let me hear from you soon. srh