Vaginal Secretion

This poster has been hanging for months at some sort of  sales booth inside Noksapyeong Station

Are you irritating about

remaining blood stains?

…

The era has come when even inside

of women’s bodies could be cleaned

The internal parts of women’s

bodies must be pure.

…

Now you can clean inside of

vagina with Suchaehwa

You can be free from smell of

vaginal secretion.

2Pac Meets K-Pop

I clicked on to youtube for my weekly dose of the latest in K-pop to find this interview with new group F(x) under top vids

The ending is most notable, as the androgynous Amber grabs the mic and busts a rap in English,  lifted directly from the first verse of 2Pac’s “Me Against the World”:

More bodies being buried — I’m losing my homies in a hurry
They’re relocating to the cemetary
Got me worried, stressin, my vision’s blurried
The question is will I live? No one in the world loves me

Hilarious. Everyone is all smiles!

I give her credit for picking good study material.

2MB Attains Deity Status

Taxi Splits in Two

This happened just outside my apartment complex.

These shots were taken at 2AM on May 19th as I was arriving home from a rehearsal.

 

This picture was taken right beside the back half of the car

A close up of the back half of the car

A better angle on the back end of the car taken in the middle of the street

Both halves in full view

The pics above and below are from a Naver article with a subtitle 3 People dead “Hanti Station Mystery ranking number six on this weeks top ten articles in society, which a friend of mine linked to via Korea Beat. All I can really make out is that 3 people died and the reason for the accident is not understood.

The taxi was going down the wrong side of the street, blew a red light and crashed at 100km/hour (62mph).

Essay of the Month

My friend’s house

 

I’m going to my intimate friend’s house. Her house is very Big.

My intimate friend is kind.

Who’s name is sunjin.

Me and my friend’s read the english book.

She’s read a english book is very good!

enviable.

I like my intimate friend’s.

Exfeel-S

Spotted this new beer in the convenience store last night. Cracked me up good.

The Stylish Beer with Fiber

Haha. Beer that keeps you ‘regular’.

Smooth & light premium beer exclusively designed

for well-being of young generation

Judging by the website, it seems this beer is marketed toward women seeking the ever-elusive ‘S-line’. Why not get wasted in the process? A bottle of beer can substitute for a serving of vegetables.

From newlywed TV personality to outcast widow in ten months

At the beginning of the year, Sunny Jung 정선희 was a successful TV host who had just gotten married, and set up her own line of cosmetics, which was selling quite well. I remember seeing her on three TV stations at a time, doing a live televised radio show on one channel, an interview on another and being gossiped about on a third.

 

 

However, in Spring, she questioned the actions of people protesting against the resumption of US Beef Imports, saying that perhaps it was a bit too much. The backlash was severe from netizens, who posted scathing remarks on popular websites, calling her an unpatriotic sellout whore, etc. In a matter of days, she lost her job and all corresponding endorsements. Her cosmetic line stopped selling and people actually demanded their money back, claiming they were offended by her comments and didn’t want to be associated with her in any way. All this in response to a simple call for reason.

Alas, it seems some startup money for the cosmetic line was borrowed from the mob, a questionable call by her husband, and the couple wound up being about $4 million in debt. Sometime last month her husband disappeared and just yesterday his body was discovered inside his car after an apparent suicide by some means of self-suffocation.

It turns out that, even though they were married in the public eye and saw all the fruits that come with such ceremonies, i.e. large sums of money, they never filed the marriage documents with city hall. So perhaps her not-quite-husband saw that as a loop hole and knocked himself whilst sparing her any corresponding negative consequences pertaining to the loan collection. 

I give up.

Sitting in an office, after two days looking at the same pages again and again, I can’t help but think that there’s no point. It’s all just a waste of paper. Three printouts of the same pages in the same day with the same mistakes repeated each time. Three times I saw “pateintscare” written in the subheading of an article. It’s frustrating to say the least, and I bitched at the boss a bit, but all she could do was acknoledge that there is in fact a problem. I can imagine this magazine going to print with the sentence “Please shorten this paragraph for me.” still hidden in the center of a page.

To my left are large piles of year old magazines that are already out of date in this time-sensitive industry. Oh yea I’m in the midst of this third revision, waiting for page 42. It’s been more than ten minutes. Regardless of the corrections, there are sure to be a series of mistakes and awkward grammatical structures that make it to print. One structural correction that I made was shelved because the company for which the article was written had already approved of the bad grammar. Utter shite.

Kinda makes me sympathize with this guy

  

McPeace in the McMiddle East

While waiting on my bike at a crosswalk, I was approached by a man, who, after exchanging pleasantries, asked me if I knew the way to the nearest McDonald’s. Being neither familiar with the area, nor an expert on the placement of Micky D’s in the city, I noticed that there was a giant Burger King straight ahead and pointed at it, thinking that there wouldn’t be much of a difference.

He quickly threw that idea by the wayside, stating his devotion to McDonald’s food as well as that of KFC and explicitly stating that he wished only to dine at one of their fine establishments.

As an American on a bike in the city, it is clearly my responsibility to know the whereabouts of such places, and I regret not doing so up to this point and vow to better myself by garnering such knowledge.

When i asked him where he was from, he smiled shyly/slyly  and said Pakistan! which prompted me to shake his hand. Turned out to be an exporter of construction materials in Korea on a short business trip.

Guess I shouldn’t be so surprised by his love for the fast food juggernaut because meat plays a dominant role in Pakistani food, compared to other South Asian cuisines. According to a 2003 report, an average Pakistani consumed three times more meat than an average Indian. Of all the meats, the most popular are: beef, goat, and chicken.

I wonder if they make a goat burger.

Free advertising for McDonald’s Pakistan!

As of late

I’ve been working from home, trying to write a lot of music, learning kanji and building up my Korean vocabulary, the latter two relating to this flashcard freeware called anki, which you can check out here.

Three funny things I saw this week that I lack photographic evidence of.

An ajumma wearing a t-shirt stating NIGGAS LOVE BLONDES

An ajossi pretending to use his umbrella as an automatic weapon, a la The Penguin

An ajumma wearing a t-shirt that read SMILE MORE SMOKE