Did you ever find one of those remote Buddhist hermitages and sit with one of the monks and smoke those tiny bamboo-filtered cigarettes and talk about Catholicism? And also, he serves you coffee?
It’s not the first time they’ve denied him a visa. It’s not ‘kowtowing’ to the Chinese government, despite all appearances to it. You should see it as a bribe. I wonder what kind of back room deal the Korean government struck with the Chinese in order to ignore their sovereign rights and seemingly deny the abuses in Tibet (while a South Korean is the Secretary-General of the UN, to boot).
Did you ever find one of those remote Buddhist hermitages and sit with one of the monks and smoke those tiny bamboo-filtered cigarettes and talk about Catholicism? And also, he serves you coffee?
No, but a friend of mine was propositioned by a monk once. He took a watermelon from the altar and offered it to her, saying, “I want to find American girlfriend.” Another friend was hit on by a whole carload of bald shaven young men in gray robes from a nearby Buddhist college of sorts. One of them took her out for dinner and drinks, flashing wads of supyo, and was rewarded for his generosity.
Good thing the Mahayana monks can get married. Probably the happiest thing on our planet (at least in the eyes of a God who resides maybe on a planet in a system not so far away) was whatever was allowed to graft itself to that great root whose tree is Buddhism. Alhough, in my opinion, the entire universe is a great laugh. Something that rumbled up from the tummy?
Yeah, according to Yonhap it was a ‘drinking spree’ ‘hostesses’ at a ‘karaoke bar’, and the hookers ‘hostesses’. One year suspension for getting drunk? I don’t think so.
The stupid old fart, Lee HoiChang, wants to run for president, for the third time.
Koreans generally hate this relic of old dictator-era but he thinks he is the only clean candidate.
This is from the guy who took in almost billion dollar worth of bribe, even before he ran for the presidency in the last election. Hannara party took the bribes from corporations while Lee was the head of the party.
He may split Korean conservatives’ votes and enable Chung (Ding) Dongyong to be the next president of Korea.
Sonagi, I was once groped by a gay monk hitchiker on Chiri-san. I am not trying to sound flippant here. True, as uncomfortable as I was at the time, in retrospect, I realize the non-secular among us are “Horny as Hell!”.
@ Fred: We’re all horny as hell. Still, that the vision or at least the school of Buddha is still among us after 2500 years says something about the profundity of that original message. Consider the lilies, for example. I mean it’s far-reaching, too.
folks, the end of darkness is nigh and light is at hand for there is a lady awaiting history off over there not far. oh how we shall rejoice come one year from now.
Yesterday after lunch, us guys were heading back to the office, when we noticed three girls walking in front of us. One of them was wearing a really short flowing skirt. A nasty wind was blowing at that time and was doing its best to lift up the skirt. But, unlike other Korean girls who would quickly grab their skirts in this situation, this one walked on as if nothing was happening. Of course the wind got stronger and lifted up the skirt revealing a pair of…..
black aerobic shorts. Go figure, but at least we know what some Korean women wear under their mini skirts.
Is this for real? It’s a US Embassy advisory. Copy and paste the link to get the Korean text.
7. KOREA TIGHTENS VISA RULES FOR FOREIGN INSTRUCTORS
—————————————————–
The Ministry of Justice announced that beginning in December, foreigners will have to submit diplomas and police background checks when applying for a visa to become a foreign language teacher in Korea. Additionally, potential instructors will be required to have an interview with a Korean consular official to work as a teacher. A special department within the Ministry of Justice will be created to verify documents, especially academic records of foreigners. For more
information (in Korean only), please see http://moj.korea.kr/moj/jsp/mo.....=155250149.
I thought about what I am going to do with my money when I die and I think before I kick the bucket I will bribe all the persons I need to in order to demolish a small apartment complex and build a hill with a beautiful garden on the top and have reclassified as a cultural property so that a tiny piece of Seoul will stay pretty forever.
Wait a second, I think I had a glass too many.
Or I could go crazy and go to every room salon dropping loads of cash and thus stimulating the local ecomony and raising retail productivity and having a grand old time on my way out.
What baffles my mind is that so many people who normally have no tolerance whatsoever to even the mildest of cold temperatures will see the leaves changing colour in the next week or so and think, “Umm, time to take out the miniskirt.”
Please take ten minutes and contact your Congressional Representative and Senators and ask them to support Senators Lugar and Lautenberg’s version of the 2007 Farm Bill. Ever since Nixon introduced corn subsidies, billions of our tax dollars have been used to keep the prices of corn, soy, wheat, and other grains artificially low. More than half of these subsidized grain crops are used to fatten livestock, and then we Americans fatten ourselves eating unhealthy processed foods made from subsidized grains and meats from animals fed subsidized grains.
Even worse are the payments for not growing crops. This absolute waste of money goes not only to farmers but to people who buy new houses on development properties that used to be farmland. Amazing to think that our government is throwing money at people living in McMansion fortresses which are even uglier than the corn and soybean fields they supplanted.
Senator Lugar and Senator Lautenberg want to scale back payments to agribusiness and use that money to establish a crop insurance program that would pay farmers only when a natural disaster or some other major event threatens their livelihood. The senators are facing strong opposition from plains states with large feed operations.
It takes only ten minutes, and your message will be read.
Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul!
I’m sure by now you been inundated with letters, telegrams and postcards from supporters of Sonagi, i.e., end the subsidies, supporters of WJK, i.e., do the opposite of what Sonagi wants, and Baduk, i.e., food need not be healthy.
I really couldn’t care either way. Nor the third, too.
Rather, I ask why is it that the U.K. has led the offensive against “cake”, a made-up metabolically bisturbile drug? From Prague.
#18: “For more information, (in Korean only), please see…”
Uuuuuuhhhhhh….?
So Koreans will be well informed of these new rules? My God, I really try not to be this way, but all I got is,…typical.
Nice blog WangKon936, hmmnnn . . . you are either going to have to make it more eccentric to get it popular or make it more thoughtful [less musing] to get respect. It won’t survive long being a K only special.
Eh, I don’t care how popular it becomes. I think of it as self therapy sometimes so I can just get some stuff off my mind. I don’t have the time to always be contributing to it. So I can never do quantity, so I have to do quality of blog entries.
I’m agonizing over whether or not I should do it thru apple.
It’s freakin expensive. Frankly, it’s a rip off.
anyone with suggestions on a 1GB mp3 player that uses an external battery?
your experiences with apple’s refurbished ipods?
I don’t think I’ll ever justify buying a new ipod. They’re all over priced. And given enough time, you’ll have to cough up $70 or so for the battery to continue.
Unless it’s a nano (where apparently the battery is ‘glued’ to the iPod from inside), I think the local BatteryPlus (or its equivalent at your area) can replace it for you… I don’t know whether that would be more expensive.
The lack of replacing battery in almost all Apple I~ product is pretty annoying.
A question about the little trunk covers you see around Korea during winter. I was told that the point of the covers was that harmful insectoid pests would nest there during the winter, and come spring, the covers would be taken off and burned. Does that really work, or is that something akin to spraying pesticides out of trucks?
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Did you ever find one of those remote Buddhist hermitages and sit with one of the monks and smoke those tiny bamboo-filtered cigarettes and talk about Catholicism? And also, he serves you coffee?
And when the night comes you go with him for 삼겹살 and 소주?
It’s not the first time they’ve denied him a visa. It’s not ‘kowtowing’ to the Chinese government, despite all appearances to it. You should see it as a bribe. I wonder what kind of back room deal the Korean government struck with the Chinese in order to ignore their sovereign rights and seemingly deny the abuses in Tibet (while a South Korean is the Secretary-General of the UN, to boot).
No, but a friend of mine was propositioned by a monk once. He took a watermelon from the altar and offered it to her, saying, “I want to find American girlfriend.” Another friend was hit on by a whole carload of bald shaven young men in gray robes from a nearby Buddhist college of sorts. One of them took her out for dinner and drinks, flashing wads of supyo, and was rewarded for his generosity.
Good thing the Mahayana monks can get married. Probably the happiest thing on our planet (at least in the eyes of a God who resides maybe on a planet in a system not so far away) was whatever was allowed to graft itself to that great root whose tree is Buddhism. Alhough, in my opinion, the entire universe is a great laugh. Something that rumbled up from the tummy?
taeng joong.
draws attention away from their Christian counterparts.
people will do outrageous things to satisfy their desires.
Anything on the 4 Korean footballers who were suspended for a year for their antics in a Chicago brothel? Just saw the bit on CNN.
@ 7
What does “taeng joong” mean? Who are their Christian counterparts?
#8,
Yeah, according to Yonhap it was a ‘drinking spree’ ‘hostesses’ at a ‘karaoke bar’, and the hookers ‘hostesses’. One year suspension for getting drunk? I don’t think so.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.k.....0315F.HTML
Darn it.
Please correct…
…it was a ‘drinking spree’ with the ‘hostesses’ of a ‘karaoke bar’.
The stupid old fart, Lee HoiChang, wants to run for president, for the third time.
Koreans generally hate this relic of old dictator-era but he thinks he is the only clean candidate.
This is from the guy who took in almost billion dollar worth of bribe, even before he ran for the presidency in the last election. Hannara party took the bribes from corporations while Lee was the head of the party.
He may split Korean conservatives’ votes and enable Chung (Ding) Dongyong to be the next president of Korea.
Old Fart smells bad.
Sonagi, I was once groped by a gay monk hitchiker on Chiri-san. I am not trying to sound flippant here. True, as uncomfortable as I was at the time, in retrospect, I realize the non-secular among us are “Horny as Hell!”.
@ Fred: We’re all horny as hell. Still, that the vision or at least the school of Buddha is still among us after 2500 years says something about the profundity of that original message. Consider the lilies, for example. I mean it’s far-reaching, too.
folks, the end of darkness is nigh and light is at hand for there is a lady awaiting history off over there not far. oh how we shall rejoice come one year from now.
god bless america.
Come for the Prostitution in Busan essay/links, stay for the grand game
http://eastwindupchronicle.com/?p=511
Yesterday after lunch, us guys were heading back to the office, when we noticed three girls walking in front of us. One of them was wearing a really short flowing skirt. A nasty wind was blowing at that time and was doing its best to lift up the skirt. But, unlike other Korean girls who would quickly grab their skirts in this situation, this one walked on as if nothing was happening. Of course the wind got stronger and lifted up the skirt revealing a pair of…..
black aerobic shorts. Go figure, but at least we know what some Korean women wear under their mini skirts.
Is this for real? It’s a US Embassy advisory. Copy and paste the link to get the Korean text.
7. KOREA TIGHTENS VISA RULES FOR FOREIGN INSTRUCTORS
—————————————————–
The Ministry of Justice announced that beginning in December, foreigners will have to submit diplomas and police background checks when applying for a visa to become a foreign language teacher in Korea. Additionally, potential instructors will be required to have an interview with a Korean consular official to work as a teacher. A special department within the Ministry of Justice will be created to verify documents, especially academic records of foreigners. For more
information (in Korean only), please see http://moj.korea.kr/moj/jsp/mo.....=155250149.
I’m doing a video project about North Korea and I was wondering if any of you could translate the North Korean Hangul from this picture into English.
http://img42.imagevenue.com/im.....1096lo.jpg
Pictured above the text is the symbol of the North Korean Workers Party.
thx
I thought about what I am going to do with my money when I die and I think before I kick the bucket I will bribe all the persons I need to in order to demolish a small apartment complex and build a hill with a beautiful garden on the top and have reclassified as a cultural property so that a tiny piece of Seoul will stay pretty forever.
Wait a second, I think I had a glass too many.
Or I could go crazy and go to every room salon dropping loads of cash and thus stimulating the local ecomony and raising retail productivity and having a grand old time on my way out.
Hmmmnn . . . what to do . . . what to do.
#18 - Sure is… there was a post here on the subject a week or two back.
#17,
What baffles my mind is that so many people who normally have no tolerance whatsoever to even the mildest of cold temperatures will see the leaves changing colour in the next week or so and think, “Umm, time to take out the miniskirt.”
A plea to my fellow Americans:
Please take ten minutes and contact your Congressional Representative and Senators and ask them to support Senators Lugar and Lautenberg’s version of the 2007 Farm Bill. Ever since Nixon introduced corn subsidies, billions of our tax dollars have been used to keep the prices of corn, soy, wheat, and other grains artificially low. More than half of these subsidized grain crops are used to fatten livestock, and then we Americans fatten ourselves eating unhealthy processed foods made from subsidized grains and meats from animals fed subsidized grains.
Even worse are the payments for not growing crops. This absolute waste of money goes not only to farmers but to people who buy new houses on development properties that used to be farmland. Amazing to think that our government is throwing money at people living in McMansion fortresses which are even uglier than the corn and soybean fields they supplanted.
Senator Lugar and Senator Lautenberg want to scale back payments to agribusiness and use that money to establish a crop insurance program that would pay farmers only when a natural disaster or some other major event threatens their livelihood. The senators are facing strong opposition from plains states with large feed operations.
It takes only ten minutes, and your message will be read.
Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!Ron Paul! Ron Paul!
I am beginning to understand why some blogs have banned discussion of #23. Though the fellow may be decent, his supporters seems to be trolls.
i ask that all Americans do exactly the OPPOSITE of what Sonagi has asked you to do.
I like Campbell Chicken Noodle soup at 50 cents per can. Already at some supermarkets (most of supermarkets!) this is sold at 80 cents per can.
With oil price going up, next month this can of soup will reach $1.
Sonagi, I am sorry. Your argument falls short. Healthy food? I want to eat. It does not have to be healthy. Just cheap.
And, with oil price going up and all foreigners trying to eat well with their money, the price of beef, pork and chicken will skyrocket.
Americans will go hungry. Keep food subsidies or whatever means to hold the Campbell’s Chicken Soup at $1.
When it goes above that price, people will get mad. Riots may break out in some cities(I am exaggerating).
A message to baduk:
Bring back the Krazy Kat!
Dear Your Excellency,
How are things in the beltway?
I’m sure by now you been inundated with letters, telegrams and postcards from supporters of Sonagi, i.e., end the subsidies, supporters of WJK, i.e., do the opposite of what Sonagi wants, and Baduk, i.e., food need not be healthy.
I really couldn’t care either way. Nor the third, too.
Rather, I ask why is it that the U.K. has led the offensive against “cake”, a made-up metabolically bisturbile drug? From Prague.
One girl threw up her own pelvis bone.
Please raise a question in Congress.
Thanks & best regards.
What happened to the Korean Blog “Gusts of Popular Feeling?”
I wanted that in depth Foreign Teacher link.
It’s right here:
http://populargusts.blogspot.c.....glish.html
@ 28: One of the best brasseye episodes… right after this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jVnrfoZD8
That last link has some NSFW bits, by the way.
#18: “For more information, (in Korean only), please see…”
Uuuuuuhhhhhh….?
So Koreans will be well informed of these new rules? My God, I really try not to be this way, but all I got is,…typical.
That one is a classic–I dared not post it.
Nice blog WangKon936, hmmnnn . . . you are either going to have to make it more eccentric to get it popular or make it more thoughtful [less musing] to get respect. It won’t survive long being a K only special.
Do Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo/Takeshima) belong to Korea of Japan?
The ongoing survey that asks the above question currently shows the following results:
Japan: 14,570 (43%)
Korea: 19,023 (56%)
I don’t know. 70 (0%)
If you would like to vote, go HERE and look for the survey on the right side of the screen.
Thanks Sumo.
Eh, I don’t care how popular it becomes. I think of it as self therapy sometimes so I can just get some stuff off my mind. I don’t have the time to always be contributing to it. So I can never do quantity, so I have to do quality of blog entries.
I mean, it will never be a Marmot’s Hole…
it’s time for me to replace my ipod battery.
I’m agonizing over whether or not I should do it thru apple.
It’s freakin expensive. Frankly, it’s a rip off.
anyone with suggestions on a 1GB mp3 player that uses an external battery?
your experiences with apple’s refurbished ipods?
I don’t think I’ll ever justify buying a new ipod. They’re all over priced. And given enough time, you’ll have to cough up $70 or so for the battery to continue.
and they become outdated.
Unless it’s a nano (where apparently the battery is ‘glued’ to the iPod from inside), I think the local BatteryPlus (or its equivalent at your area) can replace it for you… I don’t know whether that would be more expensive.
The lack of replacing battery in almost all Apple I~ product is pretty annoying.
wow. thanks dude. I think I’ll try to stay away from a nano.
Or you could spend $18 + shipping and DIY.
A question about the little trunk covers you see around Korea during winter. I was told that the point of the covers was that harmful insectoid pests would nest there during the winter, and come spring, the covers would be taken off and burned. Does that really work, or is that something akin to spraying pesticides out of trucks?
Tree trunks I mean.
Hey, does anyone know what 이면수 is in English?