It’s funny how some people find more to complain about with regard to Koreans behaviour around foreigners, and other people find more to complain about with regards to foreigners in general. I was on the phone tonight with an old friend of mine who has just moved to Korea, and he said that after a few weekends in foreigner bars, in different cities no less, he found that it was all the same people. Literally, he said, Same people, different face, but the same damn people just the same. How true, in my experience, which is why it seems to …
Month: September 2005
Foreign Fiction About Korea
I don’t often get a chance to stick something in the two categories Korea and Lit, so I’m excited. Here’s a list of short fiction about Korea in English. It’s mainly by non-Koreans… and the list also includes a link to a similar page for novels in English about the Korean War. That’d make an interesting area for some Korean lit major in which to draft a doctoral thesis, I bet: foreign depictions of Korea through the lens of war.
That Ugly Beast
I found this wonderful quote: Simia quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis! How like us is that very ugly beast the monkey! -Cicero … on this page of Latin quotes (with translations). And that quote’s over 2000 years old! How very tragically little things change.
Vagrantly
Vagrantly is a photoblog that is—or at least at one point was—banned in Iran, but most of my readers can enjoy it. And will.
Cosmetics from executed Chinese, paper says – Yahoo! News
Heh, does your lip liner have collagen in it? What about your wrinkle treatment? Was it made in China? Because, heh, this article over on Yahoo! (also courtesy of my co-worker Leon) may interest you: Cosmetics from executed Chinese, paper says. Not to be too gross, but, uh, here’s a taste: The [Chinese cosmetics company’s] agents say some of the company’s products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is ‘traditional’ and nothing to ‘make such a big fuss about’… One more point against makeup. But why is it that this makes …