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Samsung won’t let this book get coverage through the traditional media in Korea (the one in white below – “삼성을 생각한다”; See brief reference near the end of this web post). But it’s still selling like hotcakes. Apparently, even in Korea, Samsung is merely “extremely powerful”, not “all powerful”. We had...
I cross this street on the way to the office in the morning.
Several days ago this multi-story campaign poster went up on a building near my office. It's for the former mayor of Ansan who is currently sitting in jail awaiting trial on charges of corruption. But with the Ansan mayoral election coming up next Wednesday, his backers got him onto the...
My niece, Yeon-Ah, got married on May 16. We attended at the 웨딩 FIESTA 귀족 [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.nobleweddinghall.co.kr/] (“Wedding Fiesta Noble” – gotta love that name!) in northern Seoul. The wedding hall’s tag line: “You of High Birth Are Already Nobility”.
At the Unification Observatory on Sunday, we picked up a bottle of wine and a bottle of beer from North Korea. With the news that North Korea is cutting all relations with the South, I guess it'll be awhile before we get more premium North Korean products.
A local Korean fencing hall put this banner advertisement up at Nojeok Hill: [Translation] HP Best Height (HP Sports) – Recruiting Members "Mom, I want to be the best!" [photo of girl showing how tall she is] Specialized management of growth and obesity (weight, height, muscles, obesity, predicted height) Seongpo...
I posted a number of photos about the concrete pigs in the vicinity of my office last month at the following links: /2010/03/more-pigs-and-now-benches-and-streetlights-too /2010/03/there-are-pigs-in-the-street I finally got around to taking closeups of the darling creatures:
GAFIC A few weeks back, I visited General Secretary Yong-Moon Kim, who runs the GyeongGi Province Association of Foreign Invested Companies (GAFIC) [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.gafic.co.kr/], to learn more about what the association does and I reported about it (as well as another related meeting a couple weeks later...
I love the way every official document in Korea about someone includes their birthdate. It tells you something about the culture and the importance Koreans place on age.
