Also from The Party Pooper: Andre Kim scares the living hell out of me, too. Look at his face, man! Brrrr.
Month: March 2005
Party Pooper on Jaurim Video
The Party Pooper posts, somewhat angrily, about a recent pop music video by the Korean band Jaurim. He interprets the video as outright racist, another example of a pop culture chock full of anti-American (read: anti-white) stereotypes. Of course, you can see the video here, and ought to before commenting on it. The rest of my thoughts will be in the extended section of this post. Click the link if you’re interested…
What People Worried About When They Should Have Been Worrying About North Korea…
I have not much to say about the whole Dokto/Takeshima row that’s on, but I must heartily recommend Marmot’s coverage. (Here, here, and here, but check yourself for newer posts as well.) Nora Park expresses my own misgivings about the argument well: Mr. Ban, are we going to go to war over a stamp or a small town assembly’s vote? Let me know so I can be sure to pack. I don’t want to pack, I’m not about to leave, but good grief, how far is either side willing to go?
Did You Feel That?
At just before 11:00am this morning, my whole apartment moved around a little bit. I’ve never felt anything like it, and it only lasted a few seconds, but I realized it wasn’t just in my head because my clothes, hanging in my closet, were still swaying to and fro when the movement stopped. The first thing I thought was that it might have been an earthquake. The only thing about an earthquake I can find in South Korea is on About Joel, from almost a year ago. What’s even weirder, I know I was here last year, during that bigger …
Lime on White Day
I wrote something about Lime, and I thought I had posted it here on White Day, but it ended up in a separate part of my blog, where nobody can see it. Whoops. So she didn’t see it on the day intended. You know, White Day, a kind of couples-day like Valentine’s Day in Korea. Ooops, bad me. I also confused her work schedule somehow, thinking she was going to be working in ER all night when she was actually off at 11pm. I’m bad. Bad man. Ug ug. But anyway, I did write about Lime, and here it is. …