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"2. Language expression of "Excuse me" and" Whoops ( Read more... )

I raged against beef stew as a child. I forget why. Probably because my parents couldn't accept that I didn't like it, so beef stew nights became a test to see how many bites of stew parental pressure could induce me to take. I ate a lot of buttered bread (they always bought lovely bread with which to mop the dregs of the stew) and glared a lot, as ( Read more... )

A conversation between me, my Korean mom, and my Korean little sister, explaining why my Korean dad wasn't driving today ( Read more... )

I like 떡 (deok/dok/duk/ddeok/ddok/dduk), so-called "rice cake" that resembles cake only by a huge stretch of the imagination and involves rice as flour - thus confusing people greatly as to what it might be like. It is shaped into finger-sized cylinders that are sticky/chewy/floppy and has no taste on its own. Which is why I like it...as an ( Read more... )

Homesickness, I have it ( Read more... )

A young, good looking male medical care provider of some kind, here in Dogye to administer a vaccine to my students, stands just under the green hard plastic awning in front of my school building. He looks out over the empty, rainy children's playground, white lab coat flapping around his knees, flu mask pushed down under his chin, and frowns as he ( Read more... )

( This weekend's Seoul trip... )

Out of the blue in the office this morning ( Read more... )