The United States has weathered a housing loan crisis. According to the Hankyoreh, Is South Korea next?
South Korea’s current mortgage structure appears to be more dangerous than that of developed nations that have experienced financial crises due to real estate bubbles.
Throughout this blog, and any other South African blog/website/ etc you will come across the word braai. For those non-South African's out there, here's a little post to get you familiar with the word and what it means.
After work, I booked it to the airport to see my mom. Her flight was 30 minutes delayed flying out of Tokyo. After watching a bit of the soccer game, I anxiously waited at the arrival gate.
A rush of weird emotions hit me as I saw my mom. She has rarely acted as my guardian, but she is my best friend. On the car ride to where she’s staying, I just laid my head on her shoulder and told her how much I missed her. She was very tired but did a lot of closed eyed nodding and smiling.
IKAA is a collaborative umbrella for Korean adoptee organisations around the world. Every three years since 2004, gatherings have been held in Seoul to bring everyone together under one roof. This year, that one roof was the Lotte Hotel in Seoul, a nice venue with a lot of chandeliers.
Well, it's official, at least on paper: I finally signed a publishing contract to put out the book I've been chipping away at for the past year. If I haven't been posting here too much of late, well, you know why...
The world clock is running out on pax americana, but the DPRK just might be able to squeeze into a tailing position for a piece of the globalization pie. Could there be a clearer example of how private corporations affect diplomatic and military interactions amongst enemy governments? But, the same North Koreans who hack could also be some of its major revenue winners, according to Bloomberg.
Well after moving into what (I hope) will be my permanent apartment I have been able to properly unwind and get settled. #504 is starting to feel like home and just needs a few more personal touches.
I like being up high, looking down on scenery. Kind of reminds me of a good game of Sim City. I went to Busan Tower, which is 120 meters high on a 69 meter high hilltop. Busan Tower is located in Yandusan Park in Nampodong. Busan is beautiful.
One of my professors in a first-year university class told us that writers are lucky. Through the process of recording and thus reflecting on our experiences, he said, we get to “live twice.” Somehow September has appeared and the Coco Busan blog is still riding the Coco July Vacation wave,
I would like to go to the most crowded place in Busan and shout “Kim!” and see how many people would actually turn around and eventually pick my favourite.
I would like to see where those “ajummas” (old ladies) are actually going at 4 in the morning when I am going back home after a party, even though I perfectly know where they are going!To the mountain or just around the building for a walk! But I would just love to see their face when they see me following them… scared “ajummas”..priceless!
He is my coworker. His job title runs ‘native speaker’, but he is not. He’s Vitaliy. He’s Russian. And he loves tuna fish. Hobbies include ‘getting little buzz’ and ‘hang house’. Recently wed to a Korean lady. Possibly strangest person I’ve ever sat across from. I’m almost face to face with him, between the space in our computer monitors. Since he’s not a native speaker, it takes him roughly a century to complete anything English related. He always has the appearance of diligence. Everyday he eats tuna fish out of a can with either rice, noodles or ramyeun. This is fucked.
What? Belgian surrealist art on a blog about Korean sociology? Yes indeed; but never fear, for I’ll be criticizing something Korea-related soon enough!^^
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