My girlfriend called me the other night about a big internet scandal that had her worried for the safety of foreigners working with little kids, such as myself currently, now that I’m working at an English Camp for elementary schoolkids. She said the Joongang Ilbo had been publishing stories about nasty and pedophiliac foreigners who posted things like guides on how to molest elementary schoolkids, and asked me to, “Be careful,” I suppose simply to avoid anything that could be misconstrued as improper. Not ever being alone with any child would be a start, for example. Well, I was so …
Tag: KOREA
More On ‘Lost’
You know, from the discussion you see online, you’d think the Koreans in the TV show “Lost” are central characters. Well, I can’t say for sure that they aren’t, since I’ve only watched as far as Episode 3 so far—everything else is still just an incoming file, for me, but the first thing to remember is that these characters are not any more central to the story than others, and actually seem quite peripheral. It’s not as if a main character is an evil Korean guy. He’s not a villain, he’s just a guy among many on the island. The …
Whaaaaaaaaaaaa?
What’s this? Oranckay reports that North Korea has pledged US $150,000 to the tsunami relief fund. Thanks to a link provided by the Marmot, to an article at North Korea Zone, I just watched a video from North Korea, which is online at the Joongang Daily you can see it here, a direct link that should open it in Windows Media Player—if not, paste the link into WMP or whatever you like to use). You can also see some interesting NK photography here. Why doesn’t North Korea use that money for a North Korea relief fund? Look at those kids. …
Kim Ku Speech
From an old archived post at Phil Cotsford’s locomote site, I found a link to a speech by Kim Ku which is somewhat interesting in its discussion of the relation between Confucianism, fascism, and modernization.
Sogang or Yonsei?
There’s a good comparison of Sogang and Yonsei Universities’ Korean language programs here. Worth checking out for anyone who is interested in studying Korean seriously. Found on the Korean practice-blog that I should be posting on tonight, but which I’ll probably not get to until tomorrow. Waaaah.