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Back Home
I take back what I said in my last post regarding snow and traffic. We left the house around 2:00 pm Sunday. Just as we were leaving, it started to snow. Traffic was light on the expressway until we were under a kilometer away from the tollgate south of Seoul. Then it came to a [...]
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Lunar New Year Once More
The Lunar New Year holiday is upon us once more. This year, it falls on Jan 26 on the Gregorian calendar. This is the fourth one to pass since I started this blog. I wrote a brief post about the holiday in 2006, another short one in 2007, and made three posts (one, two and [...]
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Easy Ride Home
I had intended to post a picture of the food laid out for the traditional ceremony my wife’s family carries out, like nearly every other Korean family in the country, every Lunar New Year. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to put the SD card back in my camera before I left. The pic is in the [...]
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Happy New Year
Happy Lunar, or Chinese, or Korean, New Year. For the past two days I’ve been at my in-laws’ house stuffing myself with a great deal of food, beer, and an assortment of specialty alcohols. It’s been spaced out fairly well, though, so while my stomach feels like it will explode I haven’t gotten drunk at [...]
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Chungju
Today I packed up and headed south to Chungju (Choongju) with my wife and brother-in-law to spend the Lunar New Year holiday with their parents. My wife and I are going to take an express bus back to Seoul early Friday morning. Hopefully, we won’t be hitting any traffic then. Today, we weren’t so lucky. [...]
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Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year’s day was Sunday. That took me away from the computer for a few days with the in-laws. Lots of food. Lots and lots of it actually. I took it easy on the alcohol this year though, so no massive hangovers or silly drunken takes to relate. It was still all very tiring [...]
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Lunar New Year
Sunday, Jan 29 is Lunar New Year day. As we do every year, my wife and I will be taking a 2 hour trip south of Seoul to her home town. There’s always a mass exodus during this holiday as millions of other Seoulites do the same. We normally leave the day before, but this [...]