Posted Elsewhere at chuunin [ LINKNo news today, either ( Read more... )

A list of Korean riddles. Most of them are "nonsense" or play on words, so they're no good when translated... I thought the riddles were very clever, though.

( 맙소사 이런 기발한 생각을 하다니! 기똥차지 않은가? )

Yesterday Mom & I went to a beauty shop in Sinchon. Sinchon is a "dong" in the Western side of Seoul. Its train station is near Yonsei University and Ewha Women's University. Sinchon is also my mother's home town.

( Sinchon )

The night of Feb. 10~11, Korea lost its First National Treasure ( Read more... )

Did I ever mention that I"m taking a culture-related course this semester? Well, I am. The classes are fun! It's very different from anthropology class I took a year ago -- not only was it boring to no end, the class as a whole was liberal (which creates a rather hostile atmosphere for me) and it had lots of useless manual work to go with it! That ( Read more... )