Monthly Archive: September 2011

Insights into Levels of Speech and Bus Violence in Korea

Insights into Levels of Speech and Bus Violence in Korea

A couple months ago, an African-American teacher in Korea got into a fight with an elderly Korean on a bus. More specifically, the American thought the Korean had used racist speech against him and he hit the Korean, which another passenger managed to get on video: [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://youtu.be/Nyw1aCbgm8g]...

More Trash Than Usual for a Monday Morning at Artist Apartments

I love the way we sort our trash into 7-8 different categories of recycleables each Monday morning here. Last week, due to the Chuseok holiday, they did the recycling a couple days early, so with all the packaging left over from the Chuseok gifts and the extra days between trash...

The Seaweed Chuseok Gift from GAFIC

One of the benefits of being a consultant to the Gyeonggi Province of Foreign Invested Companies is that they do nice things for me. Here's the latest in the form of a Chuseok gift: