Seoul Hero

One of my summer term students, a delightful young lady who rarely stops smiling, plays the French Horn. She invited me to a Sookdae concert, one of the 100 year anniversary events the school is holding this year. It was held at the Korea Broadcasting Service’s concert studios in Yoido, where I had [...]

Barack Obama has just made headlines with the most level-headed critique of Democrats by a Democrat that I have ever seen. I have no time to comment further at the moment, so I have taken the liberty of posting the entire news piece below:
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
27 minutes ago
Sen. Barack Obama [...]

It’s been a while; my loyal readers have likely guessed that my silence is the result of my being on the receiving end of Someone’s raging hormones over here, and they’d be right. It’s been profoundly frustrating to be blamed and yelled at for every little thing, especially when there’s really no [...]

My friend Wyatt of Kimchi and Me has just posted about his traditional Korean wedding, which I attended. There’s a link to a Flikr page from his post; be sure to check it out, as many of the photos there were taken by yours truly, including one of Jinhui in her palanquin, and another [...]

The Little Hero’s koshigi has complete healed, and today Chae Young pronounced herself pleased with the results. Victory! I had felt bad at the time, but chose the time deliberately, as I had wanted to avoid our son being circumcised when he was twelve, something Chae Young had thought quite appropriate. After [...]

The second last chapter in the Sookdae textbook for the Reading and Discussion first year English class contains a short story on the theme of abortion, “Hills Like White Elephants,” about which I’ve blogged before, albeit somewhat incompletely.
The story, authored by Ernest Hemingway in his early years, presents the author’s moral views of the issue. [...]

Today’s commute to work was both perfect and exhilarating. I went down the stairs in the Hapjeong station as I always do, and passed by the #2 tracks, as one must, in order to get to the #6. As I was about a third of the way to the end where the escalators [...]