Comments on: Joshua Joins the White-Guy-in-a-Hanbok Club

By: peninsular aborigine

peninsular aborigine — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:55:42 +0000

Will do.

By: The Western Confucian

The Western Confucian — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:00:07 +0000

peninsular aborigine, Aha! I went back to the “cordially required” thread and found your comment, “Same boss. Same office, too.”

Small world, the expat-in-Korea blogosphere. Drop me an email sometime.

By: peninsular aborigine

peninsular aborigine — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:48:33 +0000

Ben Franklin used to wear a coonskin cap in Paris ’cause he liked the hick look.

Besides the jammy jams Joshua doesn’t look any different than he did ten years ago. There’s a decrepit looking painting somewhere . . .

By: The Western Confucian

The Western Confucian — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:34:11 +0000

#6 - I agree that “a full Shakespearian doublet” or “moccasins, buckskin clothes and a coonskin cap” would be “cool to see,” but the analogy with hanbok is a little bit off since Koreans still wear hanboks.

I better analogy would we the “western wear” many country music fans sport. Once in Arizona, I stayed in a motel owned by an Indian gentleman who was decked out with a turquoise bolo tie, a ten-gallon cowboy hat, silver belt buckle, boots, vest, and the whole works. He was very cool to see, especially with all the images of Ganesh and other Hindu gods that decorated his lobby.

By: sewing

sewing — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:14:01 +0000

Long, wispy beard, singular.

By: sewing

sewing — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:13:18 +0000

If I were going to wear a hanbok, I’d go all out, tie my hair in a topknot, and wear a horsehair hat, too. Get me one of those ultratraditional light blue hanboks. Oh, and have the long, wispy beards, too.

Is it really true that folks who wear hanboks get into Gyeongbokgung for free!? Or is Robert just kidding?

By: Netizen Kim

Netizen Kim — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:18:15 +0000

My new business plan is to make psychedelically gaudy tie-dyed hanboks and sell em to pot head Engrish teachers with degrees in basket-weaving. Something tells me I’d be rich.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:01:57 +0000

Interesting.

I wonder if any longterm Korean resident of London has ever decided to make his daily wardrobe tights, a codpiece and a full Shakespearian doublet? Or some longterm Korean resident of America has switched entirely to moccasins, buckskin clothes and a coonskin cap?

That would be cool to see…

By: The Western Confucian

The Western Confucian — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:28:45 +0000

Aw shucks… Thanks, fellas….

you’re not a true member of the club until a commenter calls you a “house nigger” on your blog.

She didn’t use that expression, but Silly Sally, posing as a transsexual, has seen it fit to pschoanalyze me (again). That should count for at least a provisional membership.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:28:39 +0000

Good on’ya, dude. I wish more Koreans would do it too…