Fun times in South East Korea

Who the Fuck is this Guy?

2012-01-29T22:04:00.001-08:00

Was watching music bank on Friday, and the show took on a strange dimension. They just started suddenly filming some stuff over by Hongik university, and they went down into a club and showed this performance. So yeah, I was washing dishes at the time and I heard this guys voice, and it rocked. Sometimes music bank does cool things.

Sunny Hill

2012-01-17T07:01:00.000-08:00

Okay, I'm totally on this group Sunny Hill now. There are a few reasons why I like them. No it's not their song "Midnight Circus." That song is kind of annoying. Strangely I'm kind of attracted to this group because of the guy in it. This dude is totally pimp. He is the band's leader, but you never see him. Check out this video of their new song "The Grasshopper Song,"&amp;amp;amp;

Googled Korean Saturday Night Live and found This:

2012-01-08T08:22:00.000-08:00

Right, hey N.B.C. Universal, don't renew the rights to to Korean Saturday Night Live, until those morons learn that they shouldn't pull this type of shit. Beyond the black face. Dear Korea: Having comedy performers dance to popular songs just isn't funny. Seriously, is this the only joke you guys know?Last week there was some kind of end of year gagman hoopla. Gagmen and women got on stage

Korean Saturday Night Live

2012-01-08T07:58:00.000-08:00

Another post about shit I watched on T.V. like two whole weeks ago. I saw the new Korean Saturday Night Live. This week's host was Park Karin. This lady should become a national treasure. She is wonderful. I think she rose to prominence last year on the "Men's Challenge," show where she helped the guys assemble an orchestra. You could see her coaching people on how to sing well. I thought

Kpop Post

2012-01-05T06:39:00.000-08:00

I'm doing a post about K-pop. I'm not a big K-pop fan, but when you are married with a baby in Korea, there isn't much to do on the weekends other than watch music bank, music core, and inga.A few weeks ago I watched the international Kpop festival. This thing was kind of crazy. Kpop fans from all over the world were flown in to Korea to share their Kpop performance skills.The Korean

More stuff on Tae Kyon

2011-12-15T20:42:00.000-08:00

I put an old video of me doing some Taekyon on my other blog.

Tae Kyon 1st Dan Test

2011-12-11T04:39:00.000-08:00

I'm a bit of a collector. I'm a collector of black belts. What brought me to Korea was my desire to train Korean martial arts at the source. That was a good six years ago. What brought me back to Korea was a desire to earn a somewhat comfortable living. The first time I came to Korea I stayed for six weeks while doing some extreme Tae Kwon Do training at a high school outside of Seoul. I

Post Just for the Sake of Posting Something

2011-11-10T22:58:00.000-08:00

I haven' put anything up on this site for about a month. My October was a bit of a commercial film of a different C.F. variety. First I moved houses in late September. Still haven't completely moved in. The new place doesn't have as much storage space as the other one did. A week later my folks came to visit, and that was great, but it was also a bit busy too. The Jinju Lantern Festival

Jinju Lantern Festival 2011

2011-09-28T07:08:00.000-07:00

Fun Times in South East Korea is the third hit on google for the search words "Jinju Lantern Festival 2011." That leads you to an awesome video of me kicking stuff. Unfortunately that can be misleading. Therefore I want to post some links on this site to some stuff I did for the "Jinju Lantern Festival 2010."Here is a pretty cool drum and break dancing video.http://jinjufuntimes2.blogspot.com/

New Faces on the Side Bar

2011-09-09T06:21:00.000-07:00

A week or two ago I added the blog, "Things Eve Would Do," to my blog roll. I like that site, the author is another English teacher in Korea who doesn't always talk about the normal things that you can find on Korea blog sites. It's also pretty cool because there are some posts that one might find published in a "Best American Erotica," anthology. Also-unlike this blog- the author is pretty

My Terrible Idea

2011-08-30T06:51:00.001-07:00

My son is four months old now. He is really cute. I think so, and it tends to be the consensus of all of the people who see him when we go out. The guy gets a lot of attention and he is happy to smile at his adoring fans. Sometimes they get a little Bieber crazy and actually touch him...without permission. This one crazy guy on the street came up to him and started playing with his feet

Odds and Ends

2011-08-28T07:18:00.000-07:00

1. I'm calling off my Fatwa on Nic Kun's femurs. Most of the traffic to this site comes from a picture of Nic Kun that I ganked off of google. I've been happily married for two years and I don't have any beef with the guy anymore. 2. It turns out that the search term "Fantastic New Ab Workout," ranks this site's post as #4. I'm sorry to announce that I haven't taken the taxi very often and

Bikes and Dinosaurs

2011-08-26T06:00:00.000-07:00

Bikes and Jinju Jinju is a great place to go bike riding. Jinju has a large bike path that runs along the river. The bike path spans the city starting at Jinyang lake and ending about seven miles down stream before turning into a gravel path that goes on for about another five hundred yards. I use a bike for my primary mode of transportation. The most time it takes to get anywhere by bike

Are Jay-z and Kanye West the Homme of A-pop?

2011-08-14T06:09:00.000-07:00

I may have posted in the past about the Korean ballad duo Homme. Their chemistry and talent are unmistakeable. Just check out their latest song "Man Should Laugh."Well it also turns out that American hip hop legends Jay-Z and Kanye West have both teamed up to release an album together called "Watch the Throne." I was reading a review of this album at the Nytimes, and that convinced me to give

Awsome Ice Building Activities

2011-08-10T06:50:00.000-07:00

I found this post in draft form. I started writing it last year. I thought the idea was kind of funny so I decided to finish it off. We all know the concept of ice breaking. These are the classes at the beginning of each semester where ESL teachers try to engage the students into thinking about what kind of great people we are. It is a way to make the students feel comfortable about

Health Food

2011-08-07T06:05:00.000-07:00

Sometimes on blogs you see the topic of food. Which country's food is more healthy, America or Korea? I'm going to posit that it is possible to eat much more healthily in America than in Korea, but when you compare what people in to two country's actually eat, I'd say that Koreans in general eat more healthily. If I stuck to a diet of only my mother-in-law's food, I'm pretty sure that I could

롯데삼강 Cookie O

2011-07-26T06:18:00.000-07:00

It was about two months ago. I had been riding my bike to work and I stopped off at Dunkin Donuts for a large coffee. For me coffee always goes with food. Savory food for breakfast...unless I'm eating pancakes or french toast....Paris Baguette bread makes great french toast by the way, and chocolate of I'm just having a mid day coffee. (I'll probably die young)I ordered my coffee and went to

North Korea and Escalating Preposterousness

2011-07-25T07:09:00.000-07:00

The North Korean women's soccer team was kicked out of the women's world cup for steroid use. The reason given for the postitive tests for steroids was the fact that some members of the team were taking oriental medicine made from some kind of deer gland. The reason why they were taking this medicine was because they were struck by lightning.Let's review, not one but five women were all struck

On Getting American Citizenship for a Baby

2011-07-24T08:08:00.000-07:00

I went to Seoul last month with my wife and son. We went there to get the little guy some American citizenship. It was pretty easy, you just fill out some papers and prove that your kid is eligible for citizenship. If you have a Korean wife or husband it works like this: You have to be an American. You have to have lived in America for five years. Two of those years have to be after your

Mailbag 2

2011-06-27T07:44:00.000-07:00

Dear Sir:It was pretty much obvious that the previous post was a troll of some sort. Why did you respond to it? Also, why don't you write more about your experiences in the classroom?SincerelyBooger T. BatshitbottomsOkay Mr. Booger. I'll do that. I'll also include the pictures and home addresses of all of the little ones whose lives I affect every day. No seriously. Writing about experiences

Mailbag

2011-06-27T07:24:00.000-07:00

I got this email from a reader:Dude, why are you posting so many K-pop videos. I used to come to this site to learn about exciting places to eat in Jinju's Geumsan Myeon. I have been to the Kimbab house like fifty times since you mentioned it the first time. I also drank like three hundred cappuccinos from Ring Pang Donuts. I totally filled up enough punch cards to fill up my cupboard with

How K-pop Boy and Girl Groups are Pushing the Genre of Boy and Girl Groups

2011-06-25T08:10:00.000-07:00

Okay back in the day there was Menudo, then there was New Kids on the Block. That was the early era of boy bands. In the late nineties I got really pissed off the first time I saw the "Backstreet Boys." I have poor vision and and I thought that the MTV2 music video said "Beastie Boys." I was like hell yeah Sabatoge 2 mother fuckers, but to a tenth grader the Backstreet Boys turned out to be

After School, and Why my Son is Awsome

2011-06-12T02:47:00.000-07:00

My wife and I like to imagine that our one month old son is a fan of the K-pop band After School. Brian in Jeollanamdo has often described After School as being the Korean Pussy Cat dolls. If you look at their entire song catalog, nothing could be further from the truth. My son has recently taken to smiling. He does little smiles every once and a while, but Friday my wife was telling me about

The Power of Loci

2011-06-11T04:14:00.000-07:00

Last week was the last week of adult education classes that I had through my university. The subject for the last week of classes was based on an article that I read in the New York Times magazine called "Secrets of a Mind Gamer." The article is an excerpt from Joshua Foer's book called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. The article describes a memory

Outback vs. Top Mart

2011-06-09T06:39:00.000-07:00

When I was in college, I had some stupid room mates. I used to live in a house with 7 other people. I brought a gas grill. On that grill I would occasionally make things like steaks, burgers, or beer can chickens. Two guys I lived with were convinced that making steak on a grill was some kind of refined skill. It isn't, you get some good meat, turn on the grill, set the meat on the grill,