For all you guys out there who are into RPG gaming and would like to get a few of your geekiest Korean friends, students, and others into the hobby, here’s a link to GURPS Lite in Korean, sent to me by my friend Adam. Out here in Jeonju, most people think RPG means some kind of online computer game. I’d love for that misperception to change. Maybe sometime I’ll actually run an RPG game for Korean players, if I can find a few interested people. But I’m a bit busy for it right now. Anyway, the Korean version of Gurps …

Here are some great Korean Recipes. They look as if they’ve been modified somewhat, calling for ingredients easier to find outside of Korea, but those of you who’ve cooked Korean before can probably substitute things at will. There are literally months’ worth of recipes to explore here. I’m making 닭도리탕 (d’ak dori tang) tonight.

Some English Teachers have all the luck. Actually, I had a student once flash her chest at me. Not really flash, but she leaned forward and gave me a good view of what was going on down the front of her shirt (admittedly not much was going on) before sitting back with a big grin on her face. I remained calm, and said, “You still have to do the conversation exercise. Go!” Still, it beats fighting your hakwon director to get your passport back, wouldn’t you say?

You probably know about this article if you’re into Korea stuff at all, but anyway, here’s a link to where Kushibo writes about the ridiculous debate on Korea versus Corea. No, the Japanese did NOT change it to a K to humiliate the colony alphabetically. They did some really bad things, but this was not one of them. It’s one of the more dismissable, insane complaints that people who want to sound political, but don’t know anything, wave around whenever they get a chance. Kushibo demonstrates this devastatingly, and then asks the question, what exactly does Corea hearken back to? …

There are so many ways this could go wrong. Courtesy of Gyre.org : The South Korean Defense Security Command has announced that they intend to set up 250 armed, robotic guards to defend the 252-kilometer-long DMZ between North and South Korea. And to think I dismissed C. Douglas Lummis when he brought up that silly film Robocop in his text Radical Democracy. He wasn’t underestimating governments at all. Sigh. Here’s the Free North Korea post on the same subject, and another from The Security Watchtower. Looks like the newspaper articles they’re referring to are gone into the archives, sadly. Oh, …