The Marmot’s Hole

13 Comments

1. The Western Confucian
   Posted September 17, 2007 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

   Thanks. I haven’t been called a sellout yet. I wonder, where do you buy yours?

2. Robert Koehler
   Posted September 17, 2007 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

   Mostly Dongdaemun.

   I haven’t been called a sellout yet.

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

3. dogbertt
   Posted September 17, 2007 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

   A very handsome fellow!

4. sanshinseon
   Posted September 17, 2007 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

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

5. The Western Confucian
   Posted September 17, 2007 at 9:28 pm | Permalink

   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.

6. Hugh
   Posted September 17, 2007 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

   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…

7. Netizen Kim
   Posted September 18, 2007 at 1:18 am | Permalink

   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.

8. sewing
   Posted September 18, 2007 at 5:13 am | Permalink

   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?

9. sewing
   Posted September 18, 2007 at 5:14 am | Permalink

   Long, wispy beard, singular.

10. The Western Confucian
    Posted September 18, 2007 at 5:34 am | Permalink

    #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.

11. peninsular aborigine
    Posted September 18, 2007 at 10:48 am | Permalink

    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 . . .

12. The Western Confucian
    Posted September 18, 2007 at 3:00 pm | Permalink

    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.

13. peninsular aborigine
    Posted September 19, 2007 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    Will do.