There's a new K-blog on the scene that you should be reading, if you aren't already.
Not Dead Yet, which I hope is an indication of its longevity-to-be, given the way several other Roboseyo featured K-blogs have gone mostly defunct (where are you, Dongchim? We need you!) is a cool new K-blog taking a well-researched analytical look at aspects of Korean culture. From the site itself: "This is a travel blog written by someone who majored in cultural anthropology, and whose idea of fun is wandering through the Sonoran Desert picking thorns out of my naked ass cause I sat on a cactus while trying to soak in the psychedelic desert scenery in front of me…"
In a recent post, NotDeadYet deconstructs the "Korea is 5000 years old" myth, and the effect the ahistorical Dangun origin myth has had on the current Korean study of history.
It's an interesting read, and there's other stuff on the blog worth reading as well, so go check it out. (for example: on "justified suicides" in Korea, and Who's to Blame for Korea's sex industry.)
one expat's life in Korea
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Joe's Wedding
Zenkimchi Joe got married a couple of weekends ago now... which totally means I bet you he and his wife did it by now!
A lot of other people have posted better pictures than I took of the wedding, so I won't bore you with those, and joe's covered the whole thing extensively on his blog, but here's the video I made: this cute old lady wouldn't stop fussing with Eunjeong's outfit, so I started snapping pictures. It was adorable.
a gajillion congratulations, Joe.
A lot of other people have posted better pictures than I took of the wedding, so I won't bore you with those, and joe's covered the whole thing extensively on his blog, but here's the video I made: this cute old lady wouldn't stop fussing with Eunjeong's outfit, so I started snapping pictures. It was adorable.
a gajillion congratulations, Joe.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Ah, Korean Game Shows
The whole "Japan is weird" meme that goes around, and leads to tv shows in America like "I survived a Japanese Game Show" and the most bizarre scene in "Lost in Translation"
parodies have also been made.
but the real thing is wackier.
anyway, never one to be left in the dust, here's a clip from MY favorite silly game on a KOREAN game show: the steel trash-can-lid karaoke showdown! (make sure you watch to the end to see what happens if you get the words wrong). I believe they're usually made to sing a folk song, and I've seen some really famous stars go through this rigmarole. I just put this on one of my friends' facebook walls, to cheer her up, because she's sick, and I thought I'd share it with you, too.
yeah Korea.
and aw heck: for good measure...
the greatest Korea-made short video I've ever seen:
parodies have also been made.
but the real thing is wackier.
anyway, never one to be left in the dust, here's a clip from MY favorite silly game on a KOREAN game show: the steel trash-can-lid karaoke showdown! (make sure you watch to the end to see what happens if you get the words wrong). I believe they're usually made to sing a folk song, and I've seen some really famous stars go through this rigmarole. I just put this on one of my friends' facebook walls, to cheer her up, because she's sick, and I thought I'd share it with you, too.
yeah Korea.
and aw heck: for good measure...
the greatest Korea-made short video I've ever seen:
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
More People Should Be Talking About This.
Popular Gusts has an amazing, well-researched post about the slow, SLOOOOOW pace of change in laws protecting children from sexual predators, the frustratingly tiny baby-steps taken whenever the public gets in an uproar about a child-rapist or whatnot. Go read it. Talk about it. If nothing else, thank Matt for the work he puts in to get this kind of stuff online.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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