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  • PLUG FOR THIS WEEKEND'S COMEDY SHOWS

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    For those of you in the area, let me plug the two comedy shows I'm taking part in this weekend:

    Friday, July 3rd, at VINYL UNDERGROUND in Busan.
    Saturday, July 4th, at TANDOORI BAR out in Gimhae.

    Real live standup comedians.

    Featuring

    BRIAN AYLWARD (Newfoundland, Canada)
     
    *Winner of the 2008 Hong Kong International Comedy Festival

    ROSS GARDINER (Glasgow, Scotland)

    *Appearing at this year's Edinburgh Festival

  • Seoul Food

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    46,300 websites may have used the above semi-pun in some shape or form before me, but given the subject matter and my own penchant for corny tricks of the English language, I really couldn’t title this post anything else.

    As you may have guessed, I just spent the weekend in Seoul, where despite eating two zinger burgers in one day, I also managed to get a taste of some of the street food.

  • 6 Months in Seoul

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    Six months have passed since I left the familiar surrounds of Busan. The Korean university system is fairly good, but lags noticeably behind the west in a number of ways. As a summary, those ways would be social conservatism, class quality and student freedom. But to make up for these shortcomings, Korean students work incredibly hard. This puts them on par with the quality of research churned out by their western counterparts.

  • Japchae

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    Down a side street not far from Gukje market, the bustling pace of Saturday Nampodong suddenly slows a little as you hunker down amidst a clutter of metal buckets and plastic stools and let one of the resident ajummas take care of your eating needs for ten minutes or so.

  • Beomeosa in black and white

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    Took a Sunday stroll up Guemjeong and witnessed evening rites; visiting bhikkus from Thailand were led around in their orange robes and the abbot of Beomeosa passed everyone a gift of his calligraphy (us too). The temple was muffled in dribbly evening haze. Five people quietly watched the monks exit the hall single file and chant the heart sutra into the mountains like a hoarse fight song; an ode to awakening. Metaphysical mercenaries. Many were quite young. I was surprised.

  • South Korea Trip - Daegu 대구

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    Alright you can check out the video of my trip from Busan to Daegu in South Korea. The trip in total was 420 kms. I rode the #14 highway out of Busan to the #25 all the way to Daegu and went back the same way to Busan. On the trip I checked out the Daegu National Museum, rode a cable car and went to Woobang Land.

  • Tempura alert!

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    A while back I wrote about Korean Tempura, the lightly battered and deep fried bits and pieces that seems to be one of the most popular street foods here in Busan. At the time, I was in the middle of open class hell (just finished!) and found my stall of choice to be fresh, satisfying and cheap.

  • Mike vs the Mozzies

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    Busan, 18/6/09. I write this blog as I'm holed up in my bunker, fighting against an army the likes of which Kim Jong-Il can only dream about. This army is small, well co-ordinated, can strike at any time of day, and can drive any potential opponent to screaming suicidal distraction. I'M TALKING, OF COURSE, ABOUT THE HUMBLE MOSQUITO. Dinner time has become a well co-ordinated effort, whic...

  • Mike vs the Mozzies...

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    Busan, 18/6/09. I write this blog as I'm holed up in my bunker, fighting against an army the likes of which Kim Jong-Il can only dream about. This army is small, well co-ordinated, can strike at any time of day, and can drive any potential opponent to screaming suicidal distraction. I'M TALKING, OF COURSE, ABOUT THE HUMBLE MOSQUITO. Dinner time has become a well co-ordinated effort, whic...

  • Mike vs the Mozzies...

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    Busan, 18/6/09. I write this blog as I'm holed up in my bunker, fighting against an army the likes of which Kim Jong-Il can only dream about. This army is small, well co-ordinated, can strike at any time of day, and can drive any potential opponent to screaming suicidal distraction. I'M TALKING, OF COURSE, ABOUT THE HUMBLE MOSQUITO. Dinner time has become a well co-ordinated effort, whic...

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