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Queer Links from the Week
TweetChincha has posted queer artist Miyuki Baker's Observations on Queer Korea, which is a great read (but a little late to the game Chincha!). KoreaAM (a magazine on the Korean American experience)...
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Korean Market In Southern California
TweetI have been craving Korean food a lot lately. I used to dream of going to grocery stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s when I lived in Korea, but recently I have been dreaming of Korean...
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Kuiwon’s Classical Chinese Primer – Parts of Speech
TweetA Diagram of the Great Supreme (太極圖, 태극도) in Yi Hwang’s (李滉, 이황, 1501-1570) Ten Diagrams for Attaining Sagehood (聖學十圖, 성학십도).Parts of SpeechThe parts of speech, or Pumsa (品詞, 품사), can be largely...
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ISC Research Paper: Global Movement for Higher Minimum Wage and the Real...
TweetRecently, demonstrations have been breaking out around the world demanding an increase in the minimum wage. This is the result of wages that have remained too low since the financial crisis...
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Crying former Ssangyong Motors workers ... Court ruled in favor of 153...
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Dookie Diplomacy: 7 Acceptable Places to Defecate in North Korea
TweetDennis Rodman… oh dear. His attempts at basketball diplomacy–while perhaps initially springing from a good place—have totally backfired. Like Kim Il-sung’s ill-fated crossing of the DMZ, Rodman’s...
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Dear Korea #112
TweetHere’s part two! Yay! I don’t know how it is for other cities, but I kind of hate that the closest DMV to Gwangju is all the way in Naju. While it’s fairly easy to there by car, taking public...
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Blog day #5
TweetMonday....Ugh, too many things going on, booking things, cleaning the house, job searching, babysitting, a nice chat with the boss and just praying things go the right way....I thought about...
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Hell Is a Stairway in Jeonju
Tweetby Das Messer“Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.” –Ludwig Wittgenstein***As charmed as I am by the good looking English boy playing Screamin’ Jay Hawkins for me in his dorm room after a...
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ISC Reasearch Paper: Why Capitalism Can’t Fix Global Warming
TweetA hundred thousand bats fell from the sky when a heat wave struck Australia. In the opposite hemisphere, a polar vortex drove temperatures across the United States to record lows. Last year, a few...
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자본주의는 왜 기후변화 문제를 해결할 수 없는가?
Tweet호주에 몰아친 폭염으로 인해 수 십만 마리의 박쥐가 하늘에서 떨어졌다. 지구 반대편에서는 극소용돌이로 인해 미국의 기온이 사상 최하로 떨어졌다. 작년 기후변화 19차 당사국 협상이 진행되기 몇 일전에는 강력한 태풍 하이옌으로 인해 필리핀에서는 6천명이 사망하고 수천 명이 실종되었다. 기후 재난이 더욱 빈번해지고 훨씬 심각한 재앙적인 상황에 이르게...
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Weight Training and the Curious Case of Korean Gyms
TweetYour body is going to change when you come to Korea. It may be for the better or worse, but it will change. The food is different and your lifestyle will change and somehow the combination of...
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Blog day #6
TweetRemember how yesterday I was asking for a better day?Well, this tuesday ROCKED!!!, we completed some work for our online store (Package sent!!), went to Myeongdong early afternoon -my fave time of...
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"Korean Made Simple" - Let's make it happen! The Kickstarter is live!
TweetToday I've finally launched my Kickstarter.com project to create my new book. You can check it out right here....
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"Bitter, Sweet, Seoul": Korea's Capital City Through the Eyes of the World
TweetYesterday I had the pleasure of attending the premier of "Bitter, Sweet, Seoul," the Korean capital's first ever global crowd-sourcing film project.I arrived at the premier at Seoul Cinema not...
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February Intro to Brewing Class Open!
TweetWe are already getting stuck into the new year, so it’s time to have the first Introduction to Brewing Makgeolli Class for 2013!As always, our esteemed expat makgeolli experts from Susubori...
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Kuiwon’s Classical Chinese Primer – Nouns
TweetBan’gyesurok (磻溪隨錄, 반계수록) by Yu Hyeongweon (柳馨遠, 유형원,1622-1673), a treatise on reforming government.Introduction to NounsNouns are words that refer to a person, place, thing, or idea. In Classical...
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Homebrew Tasters Class
Tweet We have had many awesome classes at Susubori Academy to learn how to brew a good batch of makgeolli. The community of expat makgeolli brewers continues to grow, so we thought the next logical...
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Blog day #7
TweetHere I aaaaam...Stomachache and all, ever since I was ill last week my stomach hasn't been the same :(, and the chicken and beer we had with baby bro last night didn't help lol.I spent the whole...
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Five Things I’m Telling Myself to Feel Better about not Going to Thailand...
Five Things I’m Telling Myself to Feel Better about not Going to Thail Tweet It’s that time of year again, when expats in Korea either head to Thailand to lounge in hammocks and drink rum, or stay...
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