• Archive for June, 2003

    Mark Twain Scrapbook

    by  • June 27, 2003 • PERSONAL

    Over at Second Story Publications I found a link to a beautiful project called the Mark Twain Scrapbook. This is an exquisite and interesting digital scrapbook bio of Mark Twain. Nice-eu, as is said in Konglish.

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    Romanticism and Nations

    by  • June 26, 2003 • KOREA, PERSONAL

    Ever since about a month ago, I’ve had a kind of niggling little problem eating away at my thinking. At that time, I was discussion nationalism and the rule of law with my famous Northstar class. I asked the class about what they thought of the Geneva Conventions and the justifiability of war… basically...

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    Matrix 2, Animatrix…

    by  • June 22, 2003 • FILMS&TV

    Over the last couple of months I have not seen a lot of movies. I have been busy enough to actually miss, in the theater, several movies that I was actually interested in seeing. Perhaps the only movie I have managed to see in the theater in the last couple of months is the...

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    Big Move

    by  • June 22, 2003 • PERSONAL

    Well, here’s the big news, for those of you who didn’t see a mass email from me: I have taken a department job over at Jeonju University. It begins at the end of August, so I will be on staff at Wonkwang until the mid-August holidays, and then I will begin over at Jeonju...

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    근 소식을 왔어요!

    by  • June 21, 2003 • STUDYING KOREAN

    ์š”์ฆˆ์?Œ ๊ณ ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋น ๋นด์ง€๋งŒ ์?ด ๋ธ”๋ก?์—? ์—„์ • ์“ฐ๊ณ ์‹ถ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์?ด ์—†์—ˆ์–ด์„œ ์ƒ?๊ฐ?์?„๋งŒ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ฐป๋Š” ์†Œ์‹?์?ด: ๊ณ ๋“œ์™€ ์—ฌ์ž?์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ํ•ด์˜€์–ด์š”. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ˜ผ์ž?์•ผ… ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒˆ์˜น ์ง€๋งˆ: ์?ด ์ฃผ์?ผ์—? ์†Œ์‹?์?ด ์™”์–ด์š”… 8 ์›”์—? ๊ณ ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ต?์ˆ˜๋‹˜ ๋? ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”! ์ „์ฃผ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต?์—? ๊ฐ€์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ–‰๋ณต ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์กฐ! ์–ด๋ ต๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์?€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณ ๋“œ์?˜ ์ƒ?์›”์?ด ์ข‹์•„์š”! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋“ค์?ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”… ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋“œ ๊ณต์—ฐ์—? ๋…ธ๋ž˜ ํ•ผ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”!...

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