To those of you who are teaching here, and given to shooting your mouth off, let this be a lesson… Something funny happened this semester in one of my classes. A student was complaining about one of her first foreign teachers, who taught her English while she was in middle or high school. (I...
Read more →This afternoon, a music professor from my university took a few of us out for lunch. I was invited along because I’d edited the biographical info for her new CD’s liner notes; the other two professors had translated the lyrics of some English-language songs on the CD to Korean for the liner notes, and...
Read more →I wrote this today: Why is it that our kind are our kind born without beautiful, perfect wings upon our backs? Yes, you know something is up when Gord starts writing verse again, though of course that is only one stanza. But only one poem today. Poetry...
Read more →I am not going to talk about the party I was at last night, except that it was nice to see Sanghoon and Rira again, and good to meet several new people including Dr. Kim Kyu-hyun, and a few others. I wish I’d known they were likely to leave early-ish, so I could have...
Read more →It’s funny — I just heard of Pon farr for the first time ever (from my friend Charles) this week — did you know Ted Sturgeon created that concept? Yes he did! — and then I see this (probably very NSFW, due to the lyrics) video: Told...
Read more →I was invited to write a guest blog post for Apex a little while ago, and it’s now up. It’s about global SF, culture, and translation, with some attention to Korean SF and horror in the cinema, and it’s titled “On the Translation of Dreams.”
Read more →Let’s see, in my notebook there are the following new vocabulary terms: 신상 정보: personal ID information 생물측 정보: biometric information 심리학: psychology 작업 멘트: pickup line 몸이 좋다: to have a good body 핸드폰 번호 따다: to get phone number 세계 구역기구: The WTO 합병하다: to take over , for example,...
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