Over a week ago, on the 15th, my wife and I made another hike up Pukhan mountain (which I briefly mentioned here a couple of days later). Our previous hike on the same trail had been cut short because we hadn’t been prepared for the ice. This time, we were prepared for any ice we […]
Between the time I left the Army in March of 94 and the time I got married in June of 99, I moved fairly often. As best as I can figure, I moved 14 times in those five years. I lived alone for only two months in that period. The rest of the time I […]
On Friday, I found that Juno was still playing at Joong Ang theater near Myeong Dong. Not one of my favorite theaters. They still have the old style Korean snack bars, where you can buy things like small canned drinks and squid jerky rather than popcorn and hot dogs. And the cinemas are really, really […]
So I thought the snow had stopped early yesterday evening. My wife and I were holed up in the house, glued to season 3 of Lost and didn’t realize the snow had started up again. When I took our dog Charlie out around midnight, I found the light dusting we had seen earlier had gotten […]
The big news in Korea today is that Lee Myung Bak was inaugurated as Korea’s 17th president.
“In the future that I envisage for Korea, the government serves its people with devotion, the economy is robust and the weak and marginalized are taken care of and labor and management collaborate in harmony. It will be a […]