January 7, 2008 – 7:11 pm
Of all the pictures I took this year, I have collected a few of my favorites.
September 10, 2007 – 7:40 am
Here are a few shots from around Seoul. I hope you enjoy.
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Since I was knee high to a grasshopper, my mom told me that I would one day end up on “ZuZu Island.” Guess what, Mom, I ended up on ZuZu Island, but it’s actually a peninsula!
Virtually everyone I know who I see on a regular basis who could be described as a “long-term” expat here [...]
Not since Jay Leno picked on the dearly departed KScene for a stupid fake classified has South Korea gotten this much attention drawn to it for something this babo. Oh, who am I kidding, I like Gawker Media posts, and I like them even better when they are connected to Korea and the English-oriented [...]
November 7, 2006 – 2:54 pm
Well, ROKon Magazine this weekend went to the new happening place in Itaewon, B1, and had a great time. While there, we managed to snap a few pictures for your viewing enjoyment.
A few shots are after the jump.
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November 6, 2006 – 1:03 pm
As you may know, the last issue of ROKon featured a longish piece about a Persian fellow worried that his natural cultural behavior might come off as, well, a bit gay. That, in turn, really annoyed the gay community in our audience. Since we see our publication as quite gay-friendly, this concerns us to no [...]
October 31, 2006 – 4:55 pm
Well, Halloween is actually upon us, but the memory of Saturday night is overshadowing today’s glorious holiday. I will update this post some ASAP and post a Halloween Extravaganza over at ROKon’s blog tonight.
Update #1 Here is a set of pictures of Kali in Seoul.
Update #2: Yet more pictures from the weekend are here.
Two of [...]
October 30, 2006 – 2:08 pm
ROKon Magazine’s blog is looking for any party pictures you may have taken this weekend. Please send them to rokon.megazine(at)gmail.com. A few are already up, but more are probably going to pop up soon.The staff of ROKon managed to shake our booties at B1 in Itaewon. I went to Sinchon and hung out a bit [...]
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October 30, 2006 – 12:30 pm
Some lucky dude down in Busan got a chance to write something for Slate about being an expat writer. Yes, I’m green with envy. Essentially, he states the obvious:
So, expat scenes invariably have plenty of writers and artists but a curiously scant quantity of writing and art. This isn’t a new phenomenon: Ernest Hemingway alluded [...]
October 24, 2006 – 10:48 am
Anna Desmarais’ great cover photo for the Oct. / Nov. issue of ROKon Magazine.
Sporting a great cover photo of local DJ NoLeila by talented Seoul resident Anna Desmarais, ROKon Magazine hit the streets of Seoul recently. Each issue we learn and generally lurch towards being a “real” magazine.
As of the next issue, we will [...]
October 19, 2006 – 2:32 pm
I found this simply fascinating. Sounds like this guy would make for a great movie. A horror movie, of course. Given how all these Americans in the DPRK are Southern boys, maybe I shouldn’t go visit the DMZ afterall. Next thing you know, I’ll be freezing, thinking of Dixie somewhere in the Worker’s Paradise.
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October 16, 2006 – 2:04 pm
The Korean Government tested an air-raid siren in central Seoul at 2 p.m. today.
That is all.
Updated
Just heard want sounded like jet flying at low speed close to the ground. I’m going to make a logical leap an guess it might be a ROK jetfighter if they have such things. Don’t know for sure. I am [...]
October 13, 2006 – 5:50 pm
Keeping tabs on the American press regarding the current crisis, I’m hearing a lot of BS that dosn’t really seem to make sense. I mean, take a look at this:
Talks must switch from Pyongyang’s intentions and weapons to the shape of a reunified Korea. The basis would be Pyongyang’s longstanding suggestion of a Democratic Confederal [...]
October 12, 2006 – 11:17 am
With all the fuss about that pipsqueak of an A-bomb test, maybe we’ve all lost sight of what’s really going on: North Korea may have finally lost it. They think they can get all in America’s grill and eventually we’ll, what, let them unite Korea under the House of Kim? With that in mind, I [...]
October 10, 2006 – 1:36 pm
Generally, in times of crisis such as these, journalists at Your Major Media Outlet of Choice have a way of not only giving you a sense of what The Powers That Be are thinking but also giving you a hunch as to where things might head in the future. As you may know, for many [...]
October 9, 2006 – 3:08 pm
Marmot’s Note: Welcome to all you clicking in from Instapundit and Pajamas Media. This is the Marmot’s Hole, where it’s Korea 24 hours a day, seven days a week!
Now to Mr. Bumgartner’s post…
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Here’s a handy-dandy Guide To The End (Or Not):
While generally nothing should happen now that the DPRK has tested an A-bomb (hell, nothing [...]
October 4, 2006 – 4:39 pm
If, as the old saying goes, there’s a reason why “bukkake” is a Japanese word, then there is a reason why The Manchurian Candidate is based on the mind control / torture experienced by American GIs during the Korean War.
I can’t help but think about such stuff now that the DPRK seems hell bent and [...]
September 18, 2006 – 2:37 pm
ROKon Magazine, the legitimate successor to the unmourned KScene, has been birthed for a third exciting time. Each issue, we creep ever closer to being a “real” magazine. Give us a few more months, and you won’t remember a time when you weren’t anxiously awaiting another mentally stimulating issue.
The issue came out Friday night and [...]
September 11, 2006 – 3:17 pm
Think all “Asians get along?” Nuh-uh! Jeff Probst of American TV’s “Survivor” proves yet again that Americans can be mo-rons regarding some pretty basic geo-political information.
Asians, he explained, include Chinese and Japanese and Koreans and “they don’t necessarily get along,” adding, “This is stuff maybe I should know.”
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September 4, 2006 – 2:53 pm
I dunno about you guys, but I’m extreemly envious of my friend (and co-worker of sorts) Katie Leitch, who got to go to North Korea somehow. She mentioned she was going, but I thought she meant “northern South Korea” not “DPRK.”
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