Ajosshi!

Pretty standard scene on any given night between 12 and 5 outside my officetel. For one reason or another this drunken ajosshi wasn’t quite able to make it all the way home and thus found this bench a welcome place for slumber. One too many sojus will do that to you.
Speaking of which, in my [...]

Employee Check-Up

I received my employee check-up at the campus healthcare center today.
Interestingly, it was administered by about 10 different people.
First I dropped off a couple sheets to a male secretary, then he pointed me in the direction of the check-up merry go round.
I had to wait in line for about a minute before starting off with [...]

You are garbage!

Taken outside my friend’s place in Haebangchon.

Anyone who puts
garbage here
You are garbage
too
when you have a
1000000W fine
We are watching!
Neighbors
I’ll have to get another shot sometime right before trash day. There’s usually about 50 bags piled up. Don’t think anyone has ever been caught yet.

Travel Expenses

A set of rusty old Amurrrican pumps

My father wrote me asking about gas prices where I am in Seoul, South Korea. It’s currently $4.33/gallon where he lives in the States, having risen a penny a day in the past week, and the increased cost is causing him a lot of grief.
I did some math to [...]

JUNCTION PRODUCE of VIPCAR

I saw this tasty piece of Konglish out in front of a Chinese restaurant in Sinchon where the College office dined this afternoon:

We, coordinate brand for “JUNCTION PRODUCE” of VIPCAR.
are proud of be fed back aggressively to make full use of sensibility
the tradition for such as austerity, eeriness, rambunctiousness
and austere elegance in which only prestige [...]

Obama Wins – ‘Dream Ticket’ Still Probable

I think the fact that Obama has sealed up the nomination, makes a Obama/Clinton pairing even more likely.
And I’ve been saying this for about a year, but first published it here back in February
Anyway, as far as Democrats go, and I was saying this over 7 months ago, the ticket is going to be Obama/Clinton, [...]

Roll Cake

Mmmm…. Roll Cake is a fluffy coffee cake with cream inside. But even better than the dessert itself is the lovely Konglish written on the side of the box:

“The most gentel, fluid and delicate of fabrice, lace enjoys a romantic repufation.”

Mmm… lace… so romantic… and delicious. I recommend including as an ingredient in cakes of [...]