Got a call this week from a KBS PD we know. She’s working on a series on foreigners showing the secret sides of Korea that even Koreans don’t know about. It’s based on the premise that Korean governments and businesses don’t really know what appeals to foreigners in Korea, so why not ask the foreigners [...]
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Questions of Quarantine
As you may have heard, a group of English teachers practically freshly off the plane have been quarantined because one tested positive for H1N1. Now, they weren’t really freshly off the plane. They went through a few days of orientation, which included eating at restaurants, riding subways and interacting with trainers. I’ve been reading Ruby [...]
Norks tested another nuke?
Either that or there is some sizable seismic activity in North Korea’s nuclear testing area. And no sooner after pundits were predicting they’d do it this year. Picked a nice sunny Memorial Day (American) to do it, too. UPDATE: Ah. Confirmed (CNN). And confirmed (The Onion)
Sparkle Book Club: To the Last Round
British author Andrew Salmon has released To the Last Round: The epic British stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951. It’s the first comprehensive historical account of the bloodiest battle involving British troops since World War II, when a simple British brigade found itself within feet of a Chinese army on this very same week [...]
Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: South Korea
It’s been nine months in the works. The South Korea episode of “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern” airs tonight (Tuesday) at 10 p.m. EST on the Travel Channel. It should air on other Discovery Network stations later. We at ZenKimchi worked really hard behind the scenes to help make this a show that captures the [...]
Significant Gold Relic Found in January
I’ve been delving back into Korean history lately, and I was looking up details online on Korean pagodas that were not in my books. Mireuksa, a famous stone pagoda built by the Baekje kingdom in 602 C.E., has a Wikidpedia entry with this unattributed line: January of 2009, in the pagoda a gold plate was [...]