Define rockabilly: a genre of music, blending rock and hillbilly with blues, bluegrass, and country. A rockabilly band typically features a slap guitar, drums, and at least one other guitar (electric, bass, or acoustic), but may include other instruments as well. Popular artists include Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, while the genre influenced artists from [...]
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Gyopos, Sparkling!
Here’s an article about gyopos returning to Korea:
Based on her interactions in South Korea, Babe says she can break down the attitudes toward gyopo into three types. She described the first as "a person that’s older who is sort of angry about you being a Korean but not [...]
CS Lee and Kang Shin-who Stirring Up More Trouble
Classified ad: K-blogosphere seeks new primary Korea news source. Looking for simple but helpful layout, relevant commentary, and no scapegoating, muckraking or racist tripe.
CS Lee, the main editor of The Korea Times, and his lackey, Kang Shin-who, are once again using outright fictions to try and stir up trouble for Native English Teachers.
Popular Gusts reports, [...]
Help an Expat: Kenneth Hash
I first heard about Kenneth Hash by way of ATEK’s Publicity guy, Dann Gaymer, and John Wurth, the Guyonggido Council Chair. I got in touch with John, and he sent me this article he’d written, and I’m passing it on to you.
You may know that ATEK can’t legally fund-raise above a certain limit; however, [...]
Golden Klogs… Preliminary Feelers
While the Golden Klogs, 2009 were fun as heck, it was sure time consuming to do all that work in January of this year.
To make things a bit easier, this time, I’d like to get a head start, but I need your help, dear readers.
While last year, we had about a million categories, and it [...]
Stop Crackdown at Popular Gusts
From Popular Gusts, Matt has a great article about migrant factory workers in Korea, and the junky way labor laws have been giving them the short end of the stick for years, and the way the OTHER Labor laws, which are supposed to protect them, somehow manage to go unenforced, despite numerous declarations by the [...]
Link Dump: Teachers and Teachers and Schools and Medical Tourism
An editorial at the Joongang Daily talks about the need to get those who victimize children in schools, out of schools.
The little girl who was sickeningly violated, Na-yeong, has been the flashpoint for a lot of this discussion.
Meanwhile, Matt at Popular Gusts continues to do awesome research work about the actual rate of English teacher [...]
Itaewon: Foreigner Ghetto or Rugged Charm?
From Matt Lamers at the Korea Herald:
…Reporter Adam Walsh is writing a story on reviving the push to get Itaewon on the list of areas to be redeveloped. It’s controversial. Some say Itaewon would greatly benefit from redeveloped streets, side walks and the influx of cash. Some say it could ruin its rugged character.
Would you [...]
ATEK Press Release Debunks Latest “Evil English Teacher” Claims
From the press release:
(Seoul, South Korea)— The Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) is making an official statement regarding the allegedly serious issue of crimes committed by foreigner English teachers.
According to a Yonhap news story on September 24 Korean National Assembly member Lee Gun-hyeon stated, “Native speaking English teacher crime [is] serious’”1. Lee [...]
Best places of Korea awards, as decided on by YOU
There are already plenty of ‘best of…’ sort of lists – often put out by official organizations or government departments. Not too many of them are compiled and awarded by expats, however, so let’s start one up.
Think of your favorite places in Korea – where you’ve gotten off the beaten path, saw some fun sights, [...]
Link Dump: Unwed Mothers Korea, Unite!
Intriguing story about Korean women who have decided to raise their out-of-wedlock babies, in the face of social stigmas and pressure to either abort or give the kids up for adoption. In the New York Times, no less! Somebody call the KTO!
It is a small but unusual first step in a society that ostracizes unmarried [...]
Survey Much?
Over the last couple of weeks I have been running a survey in an attempt to see what’s going on in the Foreigner community here in Seoul.
It is a very small sample – though not restricted to E2 Visa holders it equates to about 1% of the 20000 Language teachers in Korea. Neither should it [...]
