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Translations from the ~~Maggot’s Lair~~ Marmot’s Maggoty Comment Lair Hole

by gordsellar • May 8, 2008 • KOREA • 2 Comments

I wager most commenters over at Marmot’s don’t imagine this much attention is paid to what they say. (Then again, I can’t imagine most would care, but…) Someone out there seems to have translated the comments thread at Marmot’s Hole for the discussion on the beef import policy protests I’ve discussed in recent posts....
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Hanbok Beijing, T-Shirt-and-Jeans Seoul

by gordsellar • May 6, 2008 • KOREA, teaching in Korea • 5 Comments

There was a very strange moment the other day that I meant to post about earlier, but forgot about because I was sidetracked into issues of foreign exchange students in Korea, especially Chinese ones. One of my students wrote a fascinating essay on the effect of Korean popular culture and Hallyu (the so-called “Korean...
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“Big Waves” Kill 9

by gordsellar • May 5, 2008 • KOREA • 4 Comments

Article here. There were kids around. Some of them saw their own parents swept out to sea. South Korea’s weather agency had forecast there would be strong winds and high waves in the area but did not issue any advisory… Er, did not bother, perhaps, might be a fairer description? What’s the point of...
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The Positives of Foreign Students Around (And How to Maximize those Benefits in Korea)

by gordsellar • May 4, 2008 • KOREA, teaching in Korea • 0 Comments

I’m in the middle of a pile of essays in my composition class, in which approximately one out of four students is from China, and an incident in class last week came up that I wanted to post about. (I was grading the essay that we discussed in class crit last week, which I’ll...
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Pahwakhe Podcast is Up

by gordsellar • May 3, 2008 • WRITING • 4 Comments

The audio podcast of the first story I ever sold, “Pahwakhe,” is now online at PodCastle. It’s very flattering to have joined some pretty illustrious ranks in the Escape Pod/PseudoPod/PodCastle family. I’d like to offer a big thanks to Rachel Swirsky for giving the story a spot at PodCastle, to Sean Wallace and Paul...
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Seoul Demo, 2 May 2008

by gordsellar • May 3, 2008 • KOREA • 0 Comments

UPDATE (3 May 2008): The demonstration on the 3rd sucked. As usual for 21st century Korea, when something is good, the first thing that happens is microphones and a sound system are brought in, random yahoos blab into the microphones (or, worse, sing) for hours on end, and the crowds end up becoming an...
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On the “US Beef Scare” in Korea

by gordsellar • May 3, 2008 • KOREA • 10 Comments

I wrote a comment on Marmot’s for the first time in a while, but the comment hasn’t shown up. (Perhaps the number of links in it got it caught in the filter.) So I thought I’d post it here, in case it doesn’t show up for a while yet. WangKon936 posted about popular Korean...
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