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The SOAO Workshop @ Sobaeksan

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This entry is part 20 of 72 in the series SF in South Korea

Well, I have some good news in terms of my SF-writing, but I can’t post that at the moment — I’m waiting for the news to go official — so I’ll post about something related, and which has been awaited. In February, I was invited by Mr. Park Sang Joon to attend the SOAO Workshop hosted by KASI (The Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute), and while I posted photos at Flickr, and a few here on my site, I never really discussed the workshop. It’s been several weeks now, but I’ll do my best to reconstruct my experience, as …

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SOAO Workshop 2009 Pictures Up

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This entry is part 19 of 72 in the series SF in South Korea

There’s lots of snowy ones, and some not-so-great photos, but the majority of the shots I’ll be posting are now viewable here. I’ll add some descriptions when I get time, and write up the experience here soon. Here are a couple of pics, with a few more in the extended post…

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From Mt. Sobaek

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This entry is part 18 of 72 in the series SF in South Korea

I’m currently at the observatory on Mt. Sobaek with a bunch of Korean SF writers/publishers/translators and astronomers, for the three-day 2009 SOAO workshop. (2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, by the way.) This is the Korean equivalent of the Launch Pad workshop held in the US yearly, and similarly brings together scientists and SF creators. I’ll have more about this later, including tons of pictures and some video, but for now all I’ll say is that I’m catching just enough of the discussions to kick myself (hard) for not only not having studied Korean much in the last few …

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