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We here at the Marmot’s Hole wish you all a happy and healthy Chuseok.
And if you need photos of songpyeon, here they are, courtesy OhMyNews.
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I’d leave some pix of ?†¡??¸ and ?†???€??, but I ate everything…
Now about the æœ??¤?…
dda,
You know more about Korea than some Koreans. Just amazing. I bet 50% of Koreans themselves do not know æœ??¤? that is originated from China. I had some about 30 years ago.
The y?¼ebing are how the Chinese organising the eviction of the Mongols sent the message that it was time to start the slaughter. The message was hidden in the y?¼ebing. Like a bad-karma fortune cookie
?¤‘???????Œ?“¤??€ ?¶”?????Œ ??”?³‘??´??¼??” ?‘??·¼ ?¹???? ?¨¹??”??°??”.
like, duh.
Just for clarity, dda (’though it looks like you, baduk and I are the only ones interested in the origins of holiday foodstuffs)…
I’m celebrating with the neotraditional canned tuna and shin-ramen. Pity me.
Man KrZ, I pity you
Anyway I’m not having a great Chuseok either. My GF’s out of town visiting her old folks down in Pusan and I’m stuck here all alone in Seoul eating egg whites
Juan, if and when you marry the GF, you’ll remember fondly of the quiet ?§??¤?s you spent on your own. When you get a taste of spending a few days with an extended Pusan family, you’ll miss the egg whites, the noodles and tuna…
*golf clap*
For dda
Well I miss my wife, daughter, and all our family that I didn’t get to see this holiday because I had to stay home due to my knee surgery. The 2 big holidays are the only time I get to see the entire family together and it’s always a good time. Except maybe the part where my uncles try to see how drunk they can get me :). Even after all these years, I still haven’t learned that one does not try to outdrink a Korean but you know how it goes with the “soju game” - I pour them a shot, they pour me one, I pour them another and so on.
dda, thanks for the advice
Happy Chuseok to Marmot and his gang!
I’m missing her, definitely not her family!
Anyway today (now past midnight) is the last day of this short Korean Thanksgiving Holiday~ Hope all you guys and gals return home safely fighting through traffic with your overstuffed stomachs
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The medium resolution for ??‰??‘ came online within the last few days. You can get a pretty good view of the ????²½ hotel now, and do other miscellaneous google site-seeing. Strangely the plate centered on ??‰??‘ isn’t that hot (You can make out buses, etc.) but the plate adjoining it to the east has much better resolution, you can make out people etc. Maybe wether conditions at the time of imaging? Anyway, check it out.
Looks like the North decided to give the world a little ?¶”??? gift.
baduk:A sort of ?€œchecks in the mail?€? type of agreement. No, it wasn’t even that. It was more like “maybe, sort of, perhaps the check might be in the mail… later.”
James
aka Guns and Butter
aka The Asianist
i wonder how its going to affect china, who i think were responsible for brokering the deal, and the US who were getting pretty close to moving to put more pressure on the north. perhaps NK felt that some more sanctions were on the way so an agreemnet would take some pressure off long enough for them to devise some more tactics.
Nomad,
Suredly by now, you have learned the art of dumping out the soju on a pot of plants near by. Another favorite technique, dumping it in the cup of water, dump it in the half finished soup, dump it in the other guys glass… Considering how cheap soju is in Korea, it shouldn’t be seen as waste. Just the way the ritual is played.
Remember, even if you manage to dodge just 2 shots, you’ll be more clear headed and they won’t notice how you are keeping the soju in your mouth and when you “chase” it with water, the volume of the water glass is increasing. And as more and more drunk they get relative to you, you can always make sure they get a fuller brim than you. In this way, they’ll wake up with a hangover in the morning and ponder at the liver-of-steel of the waegookin.
Other things you can do, go to bathroom trips a lot. If you are at a karaoke or some other venue, offer to buy them cigarettes at the local shops (remember, pack of cigarettes
are very cheap in Korea, the cost of buying the pack is far less than the cost of a nasty hangover–albeit the cost of giving your loved ones cancer is very high)
There is more to the art of drinking in Korea other than facing the other way infront of elders. But I assume, you got carried away during the festivities and decided to not practice the age old Korean tradition of pretending to drink.
If all else fails, make yourself look much more drunk than you are, and they’ll ease off on you. Talk about the inequities of life and pretend to cry. That might work too. And if even this fails… well… you can always sneak out of work the next day and spend some time at the mokyoktang and drink some yagurut.
Just remember, if you get caught, they’ll make you do a keg stand with a keg of soju. Good luck!
æœ??¤?…
Hey, I didn’t get “luxury watch” or “gold pieces” with my moon cake!If all else fails, make yourself look much more drunk than you are, and they?€™ll ease off on you.Well, you can also plead that you are a “fundamentalist Christian” and thus cannot drink alcohol for spiritual reasons. Okay, but that may make it hard for you to make friends as a party-pooper.
James
aka Guns and Butter
aka The Asianist
seems the DPRK is already undermining the agreement reached yesterday by demanding a light water reactor before any disarmament. i thought it was too good to be true.
Rowan,
I knew the terms in the agreement was too loose. It left all details to the following meetings. In that sense, the last week’s agreement was no agreement at all. It was just a “feeling good” promise with no details. A sort of “checks in the mail” type of agreement.
Happy~ Happy
Happy Chusok. I like this blog layout.