Tamla Mok Sok Won, Jeju Island, South Korea.
A park full of sculpted wood, and hundreds of rocks that look like heads. It’s really quite an eerie place. The little stone statues are Dong-ja-seoks which are traditionally placed either side of gravestones in Jeju in order to keep the dead company and to wish them well.
After getting lost along a high way, caught in a tropical storm, and spending loads of money on taxis and basically feeling misrable, we found this nice little area and I cheered up a bit. Briefly. Not that you can tell.
Cafe in Samcheong-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
Korean variety show called “Strong Heart” where Kim Hyun Joong, Kim Hyung Jun and Park Jung Min of SS501 are guest contestants.
It is a game show where the guests share intimate and private stories to compete who among them has a Strong Heart, winner is chosen based on the degree of pain or courage the artist have been through.
Date of Airing: December 8, 2009
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQZ-vDFUf6A&feature=related
Succeeding parts are also on YouTube.
I have had to resort to cooking. This is a problem because, well, I don’t really know how to cook, and also, I’m not quite sure what to cook, given that the Korean grocery stores are still a mystery to me.
Yesterday I bought chicken, a dozen eggs, some veggies, and decided to make an omelette. An omelette sounded fantastic, and thankfully an omelette is within my culinary capabilities. I also inherited a large jar of Pace Picante from the teacher I replaced (!!!!) so that was for sure going on the omelette.
Unfortunately, Mozarella cheese is the only kind I could find.
It turned into sort of a scramble because I realized, halfway through, that I didn’t own a spatula…..only a large ladle.
And then…..
This happened :/ I blame it on the fact that my table is also my desk, which doesn’t leave much room for eating. Thankfully the other half was still on my plate. And it was delicious!!
Oh, I also managed to melt an entire plastic plate on my stove. Oops.
If anyone has any recipes based around Asian ingredients, they would be greatly appreciated! I love tofu, but I’m not quite sure what to do with it. Help me so I don’t starve :/
Vibrate camera and travel souvenir display, groovy cafe, Seoul.
The darker side of K-pop || BBC News
The phenomenon known as K-pop, already huge in Asia, is at the forefront of the so-called ‘Korean Wave’ - the spread of Korean music, drama and film to the rest of the world.
But is this rapidly rising industry struggling to shed a darker side?
Lucy Williamson reports.
if you don’t hear from me tomorrow. you now know why.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
“Fan death is a widely held belief (and misconception) prevailing in South Korea in which an electric fanleft running overnight in a closed room can cause the death of those inside. Fans sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on”
After mandating a five-day work week for workplaces with more than five employees, the South Korean government now plans to give schools the option of shifting to a five-day school week. South Korean schools currently hold classes every other Saturday, a practice that most are expected to drop.