Christmas 2007

Christmas Eve was one of the busiest days of my life. I worked all day preparing for my upcoming class on presentation skills, had a dinner date with my girlfriend and then played three gigs, the last of which ended slightly before five o’clock Christmas morning. Thus, when I woke up at eleven AM on [...]

Korea Presidential Election 2007

Thus far I haven’t found the campaign season very enjoyable. Even though I live on the nineteenth floor when stumpers appear in the side of small trucks, making speeches and blaring loud music at seven in the morning, I still get woken up. However, the election takes place tomorrow and that means no work for [...]

N-core! N-core! N-core!

All up I have 15 gigs booked for the month of December. There were four this past weekend. I’ve been amazed at the crowd response, notably the fact that people continue to call for encores at insane hours of the night. For instance, my last gig on Saturday night didn’t stop until after 4:30 [...]

풀하우스/Full House

I’ve just finished watching the Korean drama mini-series 풀하우스 , i.e. Full House, which I purchased with the hope that it would help me with my Korean language study. Unfortunately the subtitles are spotty and often forgo direct translation of Korean metaphors and idioms in favor of literal approximations. It’s quite annoying. Also, for [...]

Sinchon Lunch Club

I’ve started another blog, one that records my afternoon dining adventures near my job in Sinchon. Check out what I’m eating: Sinchon Lunch Club

Transferring Money to the States

Banking in Korea is always a pain for me and today was no different. The tellers are always sweet and helpful (and women), but it always takes forever. Today I learned that a foreigner can have only one bank designated for international bank transfers. At my last job I used either KEB or KBStar, I [...]

My band is in the Times

The Korea Times that is…
Dog Soup is playing a charity gig on Saturday night promoting NGO awareness.
check out the link: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2007/12/139_14956.html

Gochu 고추

고추 Gochu is the Korean word for red pepper and 고추장 Gochujang is the name of the Korean red pepper paste used liberally in many dishes. 고추 is also the cute way of saying penis, i.e. little boy penis, because they supposedly look alike. I never thought so until I did an image search and [...]

Old Korean Commercials

Roaming youtube today I found a user who has uploaded a bunch of old Korean commercials. They’re wonderful!
A lot of them are for various kinds of ice cream. This one is 맛3바.
맛 just means tasty and 바 is bar. It’s a tasty bar of ice cream with strawberry jam in [...]