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	<title>Seoulscapade &#187; Cultural Spotlight</title>
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		<title>Eyes of the Tailless Animals</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/09/eyes-of-the-tailless-animals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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After having read The Aquariums of Pyongyang, I knew what to expect with this book, the tale of Soon Ok Lee&#8217;s 6 years in a North Korean labor camp.
First of all, it&#8217;s all the same to call it a labor camp, a concentration camp, a death camp, a prison, when speaking of prison camps in [...]
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		<title>North Korean Hell and South Korean Trivia</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/06/north-korean-hell-and-south-korean-trivia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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It has been said to me by a Korean that this generation of Koreans is not enthusiastic about reunification with North Korea or its collapse. They know it would me a huge aid and rebuilding debt they would have to pay. It&#8217;s pretty disheartening. Sometimes I think I have a deeper loathing for Kim Jong [...]
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		<title>Convert MP3 to KMP</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/03/convert-mp3-to-kmp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Related]]></category>

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A great deal was advertised on TV in Seoul recently where you could get a new LG Cyon mobile phone&#8212;the strangely named Viewty, model KH2100, for only 26,000 won. It included a charger in the deal and since we needed an extra one of those, we bought the phone.
It&#8217;s got all the stuff you&#8217;d expect [...]
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		<title>Healing Tao Thingy</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/12/healing-tao-thingy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Watch]]></category>

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It&#8217;s called a Healing Tao, or at least that&#8217;s what&#8217;s stamped on the back of it. It&#8217;s supposed to be good for internal health, and according to my wife, a lot of people swear by it. And so does she now, after trialing it, and so do I, after hearing about and witnessing some of [...]
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		<title>More Barbarity On The Streets of Seoul</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/07/dokdo-protest-barbarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Liberation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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Yet again, primitive and barbaric behavior has been directed against innocent animals at a protest demonstration in Korea. In the picture above, pheasants are being slaughtered at a rally against Japan&#8217;s reiterated claims to territorial rights of Dokdo, a small group of rocky islands between Korea and Japan. Japan had published the claims in some [...]
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		<title>North Korean Reality Through Poetry</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/05/north-korean-reality-through-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Ways]]></category>

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I just came across news about a former court poet for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who escaped North Korea and has become a best-selling author in South Korea. The poet goes by the name of Jang Jin-sung, and his poems portray the horrors of poverty and hunger in North Korea.
I felt I have to [...]
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		<title>Air France est Merde</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/02/air-france-est-merde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Watch]]></category>

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OK, here&#8217;s some explanation to the following. I&#8217;ve traveled a bit and have put up with what most have to while traveling without a fuss. But everyone has their limits and when you stand back and take a cold hard look at it, some things about traveling really suck.
Why I became so annoyed about what [...]
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		<title>Lowest of All White Trash</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/10/lowest-of-all-white-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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I told you we wouldn&#8217;t have to wait long for more white trash news.
It was only a week or two ago on 60 Minutes that I saw segment on Interpol. They interviewed the man in charge, who is certainly working to make some changes. What a dynamic guy! On that segment they mentioned the reverse [...]
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		<title>Chosuk &#8216;07 &#8211; Madness on the Roads</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/chosuk-07-madness-on-the-roads/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/chosuk-07-madness-on-the-roads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Ways]]></category>

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A quite moment at the graveside, complete with traffic jam up top.
It&#8217;s become the routine for Sunah and me, when celebrating Chosuk and the Chinese New Year, to begin the day at 4.30 am and to get home around 10 pm. This Chosuk was no different. We were out of the house by around 5.20 [...]
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		<title>Credit Card Denial of Service</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/credit-card-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/credit-card-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Ways]]></category>

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Not long after arriving in Korea, I was informed that it wasn&#8217;t easy for foreigners to get a credit card.  No reason was given. People just said, &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy.&#8221; As time went on, I didn&#8217;t need a reason, anyway, as I was becoming aware that, as a foreigner in Korea, having to overcome [...]
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		<title>Compassionate Killing: Korea&#8217;s Bulguksa on Counter Strike</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/compassionate-killing-koreas-bulguksa-on-counter-strike/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/compassionate-killing-koreas-bulguksa-on-counter-strike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>

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As soon as I saw on the list of servers that one of them was using a map called de_bulguksa, I knew it had to be some kind of Korean temple design. In Korean, &#8220;sa&#8221; means temple and bulguk would be the name of the temple, so in English it simply translates as Bulguk Temple. [...]
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		<title>White Trash Blues &#8211; Wrecked Again</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/white-trash-blues-wrecked-again/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/09/white-trash-blues-wrecked-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Moron Files]]></category>

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I had to laugh at the beginning of a post from seoulbuffoon, entitled &#8220;White trash among English teachers,&#8221; on the latest antics  of said trash in Korea. Here&#8217;s how he starts it off.
There they go again!
The white trash in Korea are hogging the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as usual.
Hilarious. He was responding [...]
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		<title>I Really Have No Idea</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/08/please-explain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Watch]]></category>

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First Woman         : Your hair looks really nice today.
Second Woman    : Oh, thanks, but all I did was use a cock on it.
First Woman         : Really? Mmm  . . . I might start doing that.
Second [...]
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		<title>Another Suicide &#8211; Less Closer to Home</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/08/another-suicide-less-closer-to-home/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/08/another-suicide-less-closer-to-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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Thursday, Aug. 2:
My wife&#8217;s best friend&#8217;s sister-in-law committed suicide this morning. She opted for the method I discussed in my earlier post, the ever-popular leaping from an apartment balcony.
The news was relayed to me by my wife over Google chat in the early afternoon. Initially it was only that she had mysteriously died.  And [...]
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		<title>Working on the Edge</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/07/working-on-the-edge/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/07/working-on-the-edge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Ways]]></category>

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A chill went up my spine and tingling down my legs when I watched these guys go to work. I used to be pretty fearless, when I was young, and even went parachuting a couple of times. But I could never do what these guys were doing.
They were here to inspect all the seals on [...]
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		<title>Protesting with Emotion</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/06/protesting-with-emotion/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/06/protesting-with-emotion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Liberation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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(My apologies for some of the pixelated photographs that follow. I would most certainly have shown the uncensored versions if I could have obtained them.)

A primitive mentality operates behind the idea of seeking out scapegoats as objects of sin. It is a delusional action that goes back to the days before science and rationality. Yet [...]
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		<title>The Quiet Suicide</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/06/suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in "Apts"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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The two favorite methods for committing suicide in Seoul, and probably throughout Korea, are hanging and tossing yourself out of an apartment building. The first method would appear to be the choice of celebrities. The second method probably scores highest as the one preferred by everyone else. This is partly because thousands upon thousands of [...]
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		<title>You Know You&#8217;ve Been In Korea Too Long If . . .</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/04/you-know-youve-been-in-korea-too-long-if/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/04/you-know-youve-been-in-korea-too-long-if/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Ways]]></category>

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1. You don&#8217;t mind paying more for coffee than dinner
→커피 값이 저녁 값보다 비싸도 이상하지 않을 때
2. You want to return to your country and open an IMF HOF HOUSE
→미국으로 돌아가?shy; IMF 호프집을 ?shy;고 싶을 때
3. A roll of toilet paper at the dinner table doesn&#8217;t bother you
→(?shy;장실에?shy; 쓰는) 두루마리 휴지가 식탁에 올려져 있어도 아무렇지 [...]
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		<title>Random Kindness in Korea</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/04/korean-kindness/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/04/korean-kindness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Ways]]></category>

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(All sculptures pictured in this post are at Olympic Park in Seoul)
As a foreigner in Korea, I think I am afforded certain privileges or exceptions the locals don&#8217;t as readily allow to each other. I&#8217;m looked on as a guest here, and that means that Koreans will often go out of their way to help [...]
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		<title>Throwaway Parents</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/04/throw-away-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2007/04/throw-away-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Darker Side]]></category>

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We found our pet rabbit, Panda, on the edge of a forested area of Seoul National University campus. How did it get there? Well, someone probably left her&#8212;I mean, dumped her in the area. For Koreans in Seoul, it&#8217;s a common practice, when animals have outlived their usefulness, to head for one of mountainous spots [...]
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