Happy New Year!

by Robert Koehler on January 1, 2010

We here at the Marmot’s Hole wish you all a happy and healthy 2010.

{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 newspaperman January 1, 2010 at 2:02 am: Thanks Robert… and with that… a sad story of Koreans committing suicide in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/nyregion/31suicides.html
2 chiamattt January 1, 2010 at 2:30 am: Happy New year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 Arghaeri January 1, 2010 at 2:44 am: Happy New Year….
4 jefferyhodges January 1, 2010 at 7:08 am: Merry Christmas, everybody, on this, the Eighth Day of Christmas. Only four more days of celebration left . . .

Jeffery Hodges

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5 belair716 January 1, 2010 at 7:43 am: Happy New Year !!!
6 theotherkorean January 1, 2010 at 8:07 am: Happy New Year!!

May the beginning of the new decade bring happiness and prosperity to everybody here in the Hole.
7 Adams-awry January 1, 2010 at 6:29 pm: On its website, Lonely Planet gave reasons for the selection of the cities other than Wolverhampton, describing Seoul in South Korea as having no heart or spirit.

From here: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091231/tuk-wolverhampton-on-world-s-worst-list-6323e80.html

Happy New Year, Seoul.
8 Adams-awry January 1, 2010 at 6:38 pm: Full comment:

Seoul, South Korea – According to one comment, ‘It’s an appallingly repetitive sprawl of freeways and Soviet-style concrete apartment buildings, horribly polluted, with no heart or spirit to it. So oppressively bland that the populace is driven to alcoholism.’

Full comment from here: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ghana/travel-tips-and-articles/42/9782
9 sulperman January 1, 2010 at 9:58 pm: I suppose if you followed the lonely planet’s advice you would find Seoul to be pretty awful. 10 year old information including completely random restaurant recommendations that would lead you to some bog standard galbi place (if you could ever find it, as there are no directions), horribly outdated bar info, boring and half-informed commentary about the different areas in Seoul, and even less specific info on the rest of the country. I was looking for my copy to find some specific quotes, but like many others, I threw it out because it was no longer useful.