Seoul Vacation, Part II

Some photos from my weekend in Seoul:
More story later!

Seoul Vacation, Part I

Unbeknownst to me before I arrived in Korea, days off are few and far between.  Our longest stretches without work are only four days, which occurs only twice in the school year.  One of those stretches was last weekend when we received Thursday and Friday off to create a four-day weekend, and I was determined [...]

Gyeongju Weekend

Last weekend was an eventful one.  Met a few new people — it seems there are new foreigner arrivals every week — including one at a party I didn’t want to go to!  I finally got a TV.  Bought it used for 50,000 and carried it back to the apartment.  There are 60 channels of [...]

End Of Korean Class

Tomorrow is the last day of the Korean course I’ve been taking at Changwon College. I haven’t taken it the most seriously, as evidenced by the fact that I’m writing this blogger post at 1:30am instead of studying for tomorrow’s final or being asleep. But the class has been just what I needed. [...]

Don’t Call It Ping-Pong

I’ve been to the table tennis center a couple of times now with some of the hagwon folks.  Each time it has been a bundle of fun.  There are the middle-aged people taking huge, quick cuts at the ball.  There is an automatic ball machine like in tennis or at the batting cages.  There was [...]

It Was Just A Matter Of Time

Long ago when I first started shaving, my favorite razor was the Gillette Good News twin-blade disposable.  And then the Mach 3 came out with the flying jet razor commercial and I thought it was the dumbest thing ever, but it wasn’t!  That Mach 3 was a nice razor.  Hopefully, that’s not simply masterful marketing [...]

Good Korean Films

On students’ suggestions I rented the Korean films Tazza and Fly, Daddy, Fly.  The kids assured me that these were both good movies and they were right on the money!  And thanks to the fantastic site, Chinky’s Movie Spoiler, you can watch the full, subtitled movies on your computer!!
Fly, Daddy, Fly reminded me of the [...]

“Nobody”

The most ubiquitous song in Korea over the past two months is “Nobody” by Wonder Girls.  It’s everywhere, in every store and restaurant; in every taxi, bar and club.  Grown men and women dance the associated dance at the IP.  I probably hear it once daily and 5-7 times on weekends.  It’s catchy, but not [...]

New Coworker

Mother.  Fucker.
What.  The.  Fuck.
One of the Korean teachers at the job has quit, and that’s a good thing because she was having a rough time in her personal life and was miserable at work.  She’s very nice and I wish her the best.
Her replacement, though, is Alex.  Maybe 45, he gives us a grand total [...]