Was just searching for more sad songs about not being able to go back to North Korea, and came across this nifty Geocities website that is achingly appropriate for 1996-style midis of classics we all sang in Chosunhakgyo（朝鮮学校). Well not me, but you know, I'm referring to all the quiet kids out there hiding in the classrooms of Ewha and Yonsei's ( Read more... )

This picture is Shinchon, mid-August 2002, right as I arrived in Korea to begin what ended up being an extended and re-extended, and re-extended journey:

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I'm back on the world wide web after a fortnight's absence... not that I was missed, but just letting you know. Now in Daehakro and life is not bad, I must say ( Read more... )

On our first date almost two years ago, she and I finished our day off with dinner in front of our school, where my favorite restaurant had opened its rooftop area and had a canvas and vinyl awning with kerosene heaters to cocoon us off from the last of the winter. We were halfway through our meal when it started to snow huge snowflakes and the ( Read more... )

Below post was made during one of my late-night I've walked two kms back home shitfaced type tirades. I'm sober and better now. Also have decided to stay away from that bar for awhile or forever because I've already picked three fights there in a month, and it's just a lame "western ice bar" where ahjushee types frequent because I am too cool for ( Read more... )

I am a very very gentle man originally, but tonight's events seem to be the straw that broke the camel's back, or more to the point, the Stan Smith that foot-choked the ahjussi. I am down for drinks and shit-talking, and whatever you want to say to me, you can say pretty much. Tell me I look ugly, tell me you think you are smarter than me, tell ( Read more... )

MIA but not missing any action ( Read more... )

In Seoul again. What the fuck, huh? I say that to myself when I ride around town looking at all the monstrosities Korean girls are wearing these days, and how dorky and effeminate Korean guys get every year. I once said Korean guys either dress like they've just stepped out of a low-budget nightclub, have been reading Japanese fashion mags ( Read more... )

Oh ho ho... look who it is...

Look what I've been working on for the past few days:


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Yahhh.... I have one day of college left. I don't really think I'm coming back again, but I'm not even out of the gate yet so I won't say never ( Read more... )