The Bank of Korea has finalised it’s design for the new ₩50000 notes due out later this year:
David over at staypuff.net has a few alterations:
The Chosun Bimbo ₩50000
And thus started The Great 50 Thousand Won Meme of 2009. A few starters for you:
Domo-Kun ₩50000
A perrenial favourite
The original file is here. Do your best (or worst) [...]
Well, if your party’s in the minority and you can’t vote a bill down like in the good old days, you can at least invent nasty nicknames until nobody remembers what they’re about anymore!
From the Joongang daily.
So has anyone noticed any evidence of the health ministry’s increased “suicide prevention program?” I know that some subways have doors which block jumpers like in my cell phone pic at right. As a suicidal person myself, though, I’d just go to a subway station without the doors if I were dead set on [...]
Holy cow! The foreign girl sings in Korean…
and brings an R&B sensibility to the songs that makes me listen to them with new ears.
Plus, she says “Girl” instead of “Gull” and “I like that that that” instead of “I like det det det”
Her version of SNSD’s ear-candy hit “GEE” has been getting a lot [...]
I got a very polite e-mail from a researcher from the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore named Francis Leo Collins.
You see, Francis is gathering information about English teachers in the Seoul Metropolitan area, and would like some help with a survey about our backgrounds and why we are here. The [...]
I don’t have time to write this up properly, but the old KBS “Hongdae is a Godless Mad-Max Sodom and Gommorah” “investigation”/smear job might have a new topper.
Check out the “English teacher gang rape” that appeared on a comedy channel, at Mongdori.
As mentioned here, Hub of Sparkle is planning another absolutely fabulous meet-up, this time in the acclaimed Hub of Confucianism, Andong. As a former resident of that fair city, I’m heading up the nitty-gritty detail-hashing committee. As said before, this trip is going to be heavy on the culinary end of the tourism spectrum [...]
So, I hope you’ve kept your calendar clear on the weekend of February 28th to March 1st (the weekend after this coming weekend), because The Hub Of Sparkle: Sparkledown II is still on.
Andong is cool: if Gyeongju was the center of power in old, old Korea, Andong was the center of Korean thought in those [...]
Korea is mourning the passing of Cardinal Kim Sou-Hwan, one of the most respected religious leaders in the country, and a strong fighter for democracy, and critic of the dictatorial rule during the 1970s and 1980s. Korea Times’ write-up called him the “Conscience of Korea“.
Cardinal Kim was the one who opened Myeongdong Cathedral to shelter [...]
Here is an interesting article showing how Korean language programs are growing in popularity, at least in New York City public schools.
When it was her turn, little Kendel Brabow stood before her kindergarten classmates to take on an unusual role – Korean language teacher.
With pointer in hand, Kendel, 5, pointed out the words [...]
The article reads as though it’s only for USFK spouses, but it has always seemed to me these people are perpetually short-handed and may be willing to hire people from off-base. Call Jenny Yun at 0505-738-3630 to find out and share in the comments.
YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — While some military spouses might bemoan a [...]
