Comments on: Korea Herald on Blog Commentary

By: H. J. Hodges

H. J. Hodges — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:14:21 +0000

Roboseyo, that’s the most entertaining way to read my blog. Thank you to bits and pieces.

Jeffery Hodges

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By: roboseyo

roboseyo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:11:51 +0000

HJ Hodges: I always read your site only in my peripheral vision, with youtube playing on a window on the corner of the screen. That’s why your sitemeter never registers MY hits.

By: mins0306

mins0306 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:24:36 +0000

Well, it was only going to be a matter of time before the Korean netizens pick up on the expat blogs.

Now, the next question is, will they gang up and endlessly harass the bloggers to the point where they decide to shut down their blogs?

Not that I’m advocating the above action, but knowing Korean netizens…..

By: H. J. Hodges

H. J. Hodges — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:00:31 +0000

Yes, well, that’s because of my mid-western-ish life crisis. I keep trying to have a fling in life, but my wife won’t let me out of the apartment, so I blog instead.

Jeffery Hodges

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By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:47:12 +0000

# 25,

At first glance it’s like Western Confucian but a little more secular and mid-western-ish.

By: H. J. Hodges

H. J. Hodges — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:40:27 +0000

Roboseyo, rumors that I would call attention to my wildly popular blog GYPSY SCHOLAR are totally unfounded.

WangKon936, since posting my comment, I have had the insight that thousands of expats here in Korea have merely adopted “an attitude of studied indifference” to my blog while actually being incorrigibly hooked on reading it daily. Precisely how these teeming multitudes circumvent my site meter is truly baffling, but life is full of mysteries.

Jeffery Hodges

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By: NES

NES — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:09:38 +0000

@22 Baek du Boy

Yeah, I got the dates mixed around.

I made one of my Korean friends from work watch them with me. He almost puked his pizza.

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:57:26 +0000

Jeffery, it’s all about hit rates and eye balls. The aforementioned blogs just have more. I know, life’s not fair.

aaronm, I know Brian has his points sometimes (the traffic accident thing one of them), but there are other times where he does needlessly caracature Koreans in a borderline offensive manner. That’s why he attracts the attention that he does. He’s in real danger of becoming a Gerry Bevers type character, get’s fired from his Korean boss and ends up writting anti-Korean blog posts ad infinitum.

By: Baek du Boy

Baek du Boy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:40:44 +0000

Plenty of Korean immigrants and ex pats, working holidayers and students give commentary/opinions/criticism on Australia/America/Canada/NZ etc etc life.

Good on them if they do, it would be a lot more than those who speak of and about Korea on their blogs.

Quite frankly I can’t be arsed getting worked up about other people’s opinions and thoughts. I think this character sparring with Brian is a little sensitive.
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#8 (NES) off subject Bad Taste was Peter Jackson’s first movie, made on weekends over a couple of years with mates as actors.

By: roboseyo

roboseyo — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:52:40 +0000

I heard you had a 1000 word write-up about your blog, H.J. Hodges, including an in depth genealogy of the modern word “quail,” but the Herald editor ruthlessly applied thumbscrews and forced the Expat Living writers to trim it down to a single page.

Unfortunately for you, he quailed at the length of the original write-up.