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“South Koreans make ‘kimchi’, a traditional pungent vegetable dish, which is donated to the poor in preparation for winter on November 9, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. About 2,500 housewives made 50,000 packets of kimchi. Made with cabbage, other vegetables and chili sauce, kimchi is the most popular traditional food in Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)”
(WCBS880)
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The Korean Jindo Dog (Hangul: 진돗개; Hanja: 珍島개) is a breed of hunting dog known to have originated on Jindo Island in South Korea. Although relatively unknown outside Korea, it is celebrated in its native land for its fierce loyalty and brave nature.
two of these jerks live behind my apartment…they’re very…talkative.
me: any problems?
coteacher: yes, any problem!
what does that mean??
go heels! i can’t wait to actually watch a game. RT @tpetree 1-0, solid game n “W” 2 start the year off; n the ride continues…………..
Now with 8% Apple Juice. Lunched this.
one of my new favorites! somehow i didn’t notice the apple on the package, though…perhaps mine was pre-upgrade.
(via chiam)
Go Stop. I need to learn how to play before I leave. Also, chiamatt, keeps following me and liking all my posts and then unfollowing me and then following me and unfollownig me. It’s confusing.
i was reading through this girl’s blog…turns out she’s from Atlanta, too, and was teaching here until pretty recently. she’s got these pictures of a restaurant in the Hmart shopping center and she’s talking about how even Hmart doesn’t satisfy your Korean food cravings etc. and it’s making me sad because i know that’ll be me in that parking lot sooner than i’d like to admit…crying out desperately for a decent bowl of naengmyeon..
anyways, cute pepero day picture.
(lunalil.com/)
It’s been a very typical past few days in Seoul.
on friday, me, kellyinkorea, the beaus, and a couple friends went to “favorite,” the greatest meat place possibly in the entire world (its real name is 퇘랑). inspired by our recent 100 Korean Dishes post, we ordered the
27. Gochujang samgyeopsal 고추장 삼겹살
which ended up being excruciatingly delicious. i love spicy food but i’m very sensitive (possibly mildly allergic) to it. a definite must-try. afterwards, we went across the street to “red place” (real name unknown) for some ddongjib (똥집 - literally “poo house”) - chicken gizzards. not to be confused with chicken anus, even though that’s what the name means.
saturday began with an intense game of rummikub, followed by a television veg-fest (i’ve been watching vampire diaries lately, and let me tell you, people, that show is AWFUL. so why do i keep going back for more??), followed by a late night trip to yongsan where we searched, in vain, for a USB microphone (rock band). but i got some movies…Home Alone to watch with my students, ZombieLand, Terminator Salvation, Transformers 2, and some Korean film called 추격자 (“Chaser”) about a pimp. more importantly, after getting the movies, we stopped into Lotteria (fast food chain) to cross off
28. Lotteria’s Shrimp Burger
then headed off to hongdae to say goodbye to Laura B. who is leaving this week! we went to OI bar…it was like if you gave gaudi a low budget and asked him to design a bar. really cute place. by the time we left, it had started to rain, so we ended up at this bizarre place called Zibe (gee-bay). people sit in more like little lounges than at tables…like a private room and the floor is made of cushions (no chairs), and there’s a pool, and the bathroom is awesome. the prices were not bad and it was perfect for a rainy night. also their “royal” ddeokbokki was delicious. we must have stayed there for a long time, though i have no clue when we left. naturally, we headed to sincheon for noraebang next. i am pretty sure noraebangs double as time machines because it was after 6am by the time we left. mcdonald’s breakfast menu. took the subway home and in bed by 8:15am.
Sunday we watched Transformers 2. I mean, I didn’t hate the first one. But, wow. I should have known better. that stupid thing is 2 and a half hours long! 2 and a half hours that i will never get back. sad.
Then there was today, which deserves a separate post but i am just going to include it here anyways. So there was this Japanese place that my coteacher tried to take me to one, but it was closed for remodelling. Well, it turns out it’s an entirely different place now. From the outside it just looked like a normal galbi place, so we went in and sat down. Then we didn’t recognize anything on the menu…and it was really expensive…but it was too late to get up and leave and we didn’t have any other places we really wanted to go anyways, so we just decided to try it out. So we’re frantically entering words into our cellphone dictionaries and i come across “small intestine” and so i start to freak out that there’s nothing normal on the menu (which only has like 6 or 7 things), but then blake says he finds something that means “bamboo” and he thinks its samgyeopsal (korean bacon, kind of). so we get two of those. then blake decides he wants to double check and, sure enough, it means large intestine. so now we’re really freaking out and we change our order to just one intestine, and one of the 30,000won ($26ish) sirloins. and the staff speaks no english at all and they’re making us really uncomfortable and it was all very stressful for a while there. then all of the sudden there’s flames all over our grill, which apparently is supposed to happen, and it was really cool. so then came the moment when we had to eat the intestine. and let me tell you, it was SO very delicious (if you don’t believe me, see this post). i would definitely get it again…but it’s expensive (15,000won for a really small serving). another perfect example of how korea can suck one minute and be wonderful the next. and when i got home i realized it was on the list! so take that,
15. Gobchang Gui (Grilled Beef Intestines) 곱창구이.
and the worst part about it is that i haven’t had my camera with me practically at all for any of this.
“I’ve been living in Seoul for the past year and have begun to collect sounds in an attempt to capture what is uniquely and distinctly Seoul.”
This is awesome!
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ㅋㅋ RT @taylorswift13 http://tinyurl.com/ykvtvzz @butchwalker covered You Belong With Me and I’m losing my MIND listening to it! Blown away.
just scrolling down my blackberry calendar. stumbled upon february. 14th. and then started thinking about little romantic stuff (gross, huh?). which trailed onto thinking about 11/11, which is pepero day because 11/11 looks like pepero sticks. just thought to myself: i hope i meet my future husband and we’re dating by 11/11/11 so i can surprise him with loads of pepero sticks. when i’m single i’m not really the cutesy type… but i think it comes out when… necessary, haha. anyway, i’d also force him to share them with me… and eat more than half of it.
i want theeese pepero! not to make you all vomit, but blake’s and my anniversary also happens to be on 11/11.
Pepero day is coming up soon (November 11th)
I needa find me someone who’d buy me one of
those giant hearts. LOL :D
i’ve already got 4 giant boxes…but i still need more…
DID YOU KNOW? of the day :)
That in Korea on November 11th that everybody celebrates Pepero or Pocky Day? haha. I find it kind of funny anywho here’s my BFF, Wikipedia’s take on this day,
PEPERO: The Korean (Lotte) take on the Pocky. It is a long thin cracker covered in chocolate, or any other varieties such as strawberry, nuts, etc.Pepero Day is an observance in South Korea similar to Valentine’s Day. It is named after the Korean snack Pepero and held on November 11, since the date “11/11” resembles four sticks of Pepero.The holiday is observed mostly by young people and couples, who exchange Pepero sticks, other candies, and romantic gifts. Lotte denies starting the holiday and instead states that they noticed a bump in Pepero sales around November 11th and after continued popularity they decided to then encourage the holiday with special gift boxes and other promotions. Some consider it to be a contrived holiday and some teachers have encouraged children to exchange healthy snacks to help combat obesity.
According to one story, Pepero Day was started in 1994 by students at a girls’ middle school in Busan, where they exchanged Pepero sticks as gifts to wish one another to grow “as tall and slender as a Pepero”.
and i’m liking what i’m seeing.
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