Monthly Archive: May 2011

Yeah! Forty More Bottles of My Favorite Makgeolli!

This is my favorite brand of makgeolli but it's not available in Ansan, except in limited quantities of just one of five flavors at Emart, clear on the other side of the city. But I've got connections… and just got in a shipment of 40 more bottles this week… Note...

Weighing the Pros and Cons of Korean New City Development Along the West Sea

We recently interviewed Dick Warmington on KoreaBusinessCentral.com. (Click here [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://stevenbammel.com/category/archives/kbcforum/topics/korea-business-central-329] to listen and/or read the fascinating interview.) Dick is President of Chadwick International School in Songdo, Korea, which is a new city built entirely on reclaimed land in the West Sea south of Incheon. It’s a dramatic...

The 2011 Ansan Street Arts Festival

This year's event was fantastic. Having re-structured the street layout along Gwangdeok Road in the new city section of Ansan, the layout of performances, as well as the entertainers brought to perform, was exceptional… and free. It was further enhanced by having the street closed down to car traffic, enabling...

Field Day At Seongpo Elementary – Kids and Mom

More photos from last week's field day at Seongpo Elementary School. In the photo below, that's Cauvery in the yellow jersey coming around the turn in the relay race. He made up some ground that previous runners on his team had lost and in the end, the yellow jersey team...

New Header Photo for the Songpo-Dong: Our Home Photoblog

The previous header photo on this photoblog of Myunghee, Treasure and Cauvery taken at the 2009 Tulip Festival in Seongpo-Dong was over two years old. We've taken lots of photos since then and I'd been wanting to update the header photo, but I hadn't been able to find a recent...