Category: Seongpo-Dong
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:
Chuseok Gift: $150 of Beef in a Refrigerated Bag from Lotte Department Store
This is what I was talking about in a recent column in Seoul Magazine about the ridiculously priced Chuseok gifts at the Korean department stores. We really do appreciate the present from my translation colleague, Dong-Hyeok Kim and his wife, and the price makes it all the more meaningful, but...
The Galbi Restaurant in Suweon
Nothing like a stroll in the park before or after lunch… The area around this Galbi restaurant is more impressive, I'm afraid, than the food in it!
My Business Card Stack from the First Half of 2011
As best I can tell, my business card haul from the first half of 2011 is about the same as it was in the latter half of 2010… Click here to compare for yourself! Either way, it's a lot of cards. They have all been dutifully scanned, categorized and shredded.
Weekend Trip to Geoje Island (14 of 14) – Birthplace and Place of Death of Former Korean President Rho Moo-Hyeon
Last stop on our trip down to Geoje Island last month was the birthplace of former Korean President Roh Moo-Hyeon. After his retirement from the presidency, he returned to this place to live. But in June 2009, he killed himself by leaping from a hill behind his house (the one...
Weekend Trip to Geoje Island (July 2-3, 2011)
(1 of 14) – Gyejok Mountain and the Yellow Earth Walking Path (2 of 14) – Country Walk (3 of 14) – The Old Gold Mine (4 of 14) – The New Gold Mine (5 of 14) – Gold Mine Area (6 of 14) – Horse Ears Mountain (7 of...
Weekend Trip to Geoje Island (13 of 14) – Geoga Bridge and Undersea Tunnel
After finishing up at Kim Young-Sam's birthplace, we headed up the highway about 15 minutes to the Geoga Bridge, which includes an underwater tunnel portion, too. (See video below for "the experience') Very cool for sure, and I don't mean to take anything away from the technological feat by mentioning...
Weekend Trip to Geoje Island (12 of 14) – Birthplace of Kim Yeong-Sam
This is where long-time political opposition figure and former Korean President Kim Young-Sam was born. They've since built a museum next to his childhood home. One of the highlights of his career was when he was kicked out of the National Assembly in 1979 by the Park Chung-Hee regime; I just...
