Arirang TV s future up in the air

January 03, 2005 ¤? In the coming year, the employees of Arirang TV, Korea s sole …

Sorry about the mix-up.

Anyway, with Rob1 using his really name on the blog now, I guess everyone can be called marmots now. It’s like a frick’n colony or something.

I would guess that you’d tend to migrate toward people who would be open-minded enough to accept your preferences anyway. If you come out to them and their feelings change because you’re not who they thought you were, well THEY’RE not who you thought they were either.

As for “not being wholly honest” - give yourself a break man. I would imagine that life here is enough of a struggle without beating yourself up for not being a social martyr for your brethren. Excuse yourself for being a bit machiavellian when the situation calls for it!

Leone
I agree with dkapflzks about the coming out to people. When I meant taking responsibility for your posts and for using real names in no way was I speaking about you. I think that people who write inflammatory things or things that are highly controversal should be willing to stand behind them instead of hiding behind a “nick.”

Your situation is completely different and I of course wish you the best of luck in your decision. A few of the people on this blog know that I am writing an article on the Sexual Relations during the Late Choson Dynasty and I am really amazed at the opinions of homosexuality during this period. I think that Koreans have opened up to it a lot in the past couple of years but there are still social stigma and you will need to proceed carefully - especially if you are a teacher.

However,I am a gay guy and very new to Korea finding that the idea of being gay to Koreans is very alien and I would guess abhorrent. I’m struggling with this as I have met some really great people but feel as if I’m being untruthful about myself and decieving them. I’ve reconciled this in my own mind by deciding that maybe I’ll come out to those people who I establish a good relationship with over time. I do worry though that they will reject me and that my life here will become impossible if my sexuality is publicly known.

In other words and in relation to your post, I’m being anonymous for practical reasons although I kind of hate myself for doing so and feel that I’m letting myself and others down (ie. other gay people and people I meet for not being wholly honest). But hey - do I ask them what they do in their bedroom - NO. The truth is I’m not sure how to proceed - any advice? Anyone?

I have noticed the same thing that you have - many people believe that Robert “Marmot” is actually posting all of these posts. I think that you have to take it from a different point of view - Marmot’s Hole has become somewhat of an institution and I think that “Marmot” is just a reference to the site…, I know that this makes absolutely no sense - I just can’t think how to word it

By the way, it was I that wrote this post, not Marmot - people still haven’t noticed that there are (is?) more than one author now.

Wooj: I too loved those PSAs (public service announcements) on AF(K)N, back when I had it in the 1990s. I also remember the fraud waste and abuse one about the guy who wanted to drive his company car home late one rainy night, and the guy who called his mum/mom using his office phone, and the mother was a guy in drag. Let’s not forget Airman Gerry whatsisname,, who provided the most scintillating weather forecasts in 1996 (when I didn’t know Fahrenheit yet - still struggle with it) and only knew two things to do with his hands: shrug self-deprecatingly or point vaguely in the direction of the weather map.

I rather like Arirang’s Heart to Heart, if only because I find the host so endearingly cute and her voice somewhat hypnotic.

I don’t know if you were really asking a question but I think I know what that tag line is talking about.

I believe that the ’straws’ in “Bucket of sweat will determine the straws on my business card?€?are the material of the card. I think ‘fibers’ would have been a better word.

Low-end business cards are smooth and flimsy. As you move on up in the world, you get thicker cards with a rougher-feeling texture. When you have really made it, your cards will look and feel like stiff cloth (you can even see the individual fibers).

When you give your business card to a Korean businessman and he looks at it for the traditional several seconds that most Koreans do, he can partially judge your position in a company or the success of your business by the card’s thickness and texture.

In short the straws of your business card is a status symbol. The ad could have just as easily said?€œBucket of sweat will determine the car in my driveway.”

I think I’ll post this.