Comments on: Happy Chuseok http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/ Korea... in Blog Format Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:12:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: hardyandtiny http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23808 hardyandtiny Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:50:15 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23808 Happy Chusok. I like this blog layout. Happy Chusok. I like this blog layout.

]]> By: samwise622 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23807 samwise622 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:21:44 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23807 Happy~ Happy Happy~ Happy

]]> By: baduk http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23806 baduk Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:47:38 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23806 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. 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.

]]> By: rowan http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23805 rowan Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:53:40 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23805 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. 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.

]]> By: Guns and Butter http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23804 Guns and Butter Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:33:43 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23804 ζœ??€?... 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 ζœ??€?…

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

]]> By: virtual wonderer http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23803 virtual wonderer Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:59:08 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23803 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! 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!

]]> By: rowan http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23802 rowan Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:49:28 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23802 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. 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.

]]> By: Guns and Butter http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23801 Guns and Butter Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:14:18 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23801 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 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

]]> By: KrZ http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23800 KrZ Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:14:56 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23800 Looks like the North decided to give the world a little ?Ά”??? gift. Looks like the North decided to give the world a little ?Ά”??? gift.

]]> By: KrZ http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/09/17/happy-chuseok/#comment-23799 KrZ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:44:01 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=2032#comment-23799 Off-topic- 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. Off-topic-
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.

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