Destitute North Korea’s push to breathe new life into economic relationships with its neighbours China and Russia appears to be bearing fruit in its far north of the country where foreigners are busy helping rebuild a crumbling infrastructure. A top local official told reporters on Tuesday that China and Russia had invested heavily in the [...]
August 31, 2011
China, Russia rush to rebuild North Korea’s transport links
August 30, 2011
Giveaway clarification
I think there’s been a misunderstanding about my giveaway. I won’t be giving away two books each to two winners, like that will make me so broke the whole month T^T I’m sorry. I’ll be only giving one book to each winners because I can only afford two..like I said Yonsei textbooks are expensive. So [...]
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Ponged 탁구 시간
My father-in-law joined a ping-pong school and has been playing weekly. He plays large-ball ping-pong which means the ball is about the size of a golf ball, and even though it has been years since I played, it was just like riding a bike. When he heard that I enjoyed playing as well, he quickly invited me to to go play when we visited Korea again. JJ tagged along for our first visit, but we had so much fun that my FIL and I went again alone the next day. We never really played a game; we only rallied for an hour or so each time. I admit that I tried to take it easy on him the first time that we played, but he would get a smash in every few rallies so I began to really try to beat him, but really didn’t have that much luck. We had so much fun that we set up a rematch to played on our next visit to Korea. In fact, we both claimed that we were going to play every day next visit.
Yeah, I know. I am a beast!
Check Out His Form
JJ got in on the Ping-Pong Action
Compare My Form with the Photos in the Background. Oh Yeah!
FIL in Action
Who Won?
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August 29, 2011
Seokyo Music lawsuit and Mirrorball presentation
Today allkpop offered no less than two translated articles dealing with a bit of K-pop:
Hongdae label organization Seokyo Music Labels Association will file a class action style law suite to fight against bans on songs from their artists: Indie bands come together to file a class action suit against the MOGEF
Then there was this one, introducing distribution company Mirrorball Music that I think has surprised everybody with the fast growth since the start:
Meet the other “Big 3″ agencies in the Korean music industry
Hyang Music Album Chart week 32
The album sales chart from Hyang frequently offers mysteries I knew better how to solve. For instance this week I’m very curious to learn howcome electro funk piece 밀월여행 made it to the upper half of the chart four years after release.
Hyang Chart – 2nd week of August, 2011
1. Linus’ Blanket – Show Me Love
2. The Black Skirts – Don’t You Worry Baby (I’m Only Swimming
3. Gate Flowers – Gate Flowers
4. The Miracle of Han River – 한강의 기적
5. Schizo – Bomb! Bomb! Bomb!
6. Shin Yoon Chul – 신윤철
7. Chang Kiha & The Faces – 장기하와 얼굴들
8. Super Junior – Mr. Simple (Type A)
9. Huckleberry Finn – 까만 타이거
10. 2NE1 – 2nd Mini Album
The new k-indie oriented additions to the TOP100 list were the following:
28. Concrete Band – 첫번째, 춤
45. Soreguitan – 밀월여행
53. Super8bit – Boy ‘N’ Girl
58. Romantic Punch – It’s Yummy
69. ReSka – 여~전히, 그리워 하네
70. Sai – 유기농펑크포크
88. Mate – Play OST
See the full top 100 list here.
Concrete Band self-released debut EP 첫번째, 춤 on August 13. Hyang Music has samples for all songs, which show a sound somewhere between early Zitten and Nell.
The “Reggae Ska Groove Makers” in ReSka released their first official EP, 여~전히, 그리워 하네, via boonga Boonga Record on August 12. Here they are performing EP track Re-member, and here’s a performance of EP track Higher:
August 28, 2011
N-Train – One Last Cry
N-Train is a South Korean boy band. The group leans towards R&B and soul-oriented music.
T-ara’s Jiyeon soldiers on despite straining her knee ligament
It’s just been revealed that T-ara’s Jiyeon overcame her knee injury in order to participate in T-ara’s last “Roly-Poly” stage.
On August 25th, Jiyeon pulled her right knee ligament during choreography practice and was adviced by both her doctor and her company to rest. However, Jiyeon insisted on continuing with her schedule.
Jiyeon stated, “I wanted to be with the members on stage especially because this week is the last broadcast performance of ‘Roly-Poly’.”
Her company revealed, “She has a great sense of responsibility, so despite the pain from her injury, she took painkillers and did her absolute best for the last ‘Roly-Poly’ performance on ‘Inkigayo‘. Afterwards, she even finished up her other pre-arranged schedules. The situation with her right knee has however worsened, so she is currently resting at an emergency room awaiting treatment.”
Core Contents Media also commented on T-ara’s future activities, saying, “We will make further decisions after we observe the situation with Jiyeon’s right knee.”
Source + Photo: Economy Today via Nate
August 27, 2011
[Audio Blog] 더듬거리며 읽었다
My first ever and horrible audio blog. In this you’ll hear me reading a passage in Korean and WARNING: EARSORE. I stutter and got tongue-tied and you can actually hear how frustrated I was at the end *smack self*. When I was reading this I understood what I read but when I listened to it [...]
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A Day Out in Jeju-shi
JJ, her sister, and myself took off one day to do some shopping and visit a Chinese restaurant. I love being in Korea, but really love the atmosphere in Jeju. The people are not the friendliest, but there is something about being surrounded by tourists on vacation that gives the place an easy going feeling which is vastly different from other areas of Korea, especially Seoul.
JJ and her sister
I did get new glasses while in Korea, but not these
The delivery business was still running strong.
Noodles with Black Bean Sauce 자장면
탕수육
짬뽕 goes great with 자장면
Dipping sauce
돌 하르방/ Dol hareubang found all over Jeju
Think this was a grandmother stone
My favorite bar in Jeju