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	<title>Seoulscapade &#187; GENERAL</title>
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		<title>Goodbye Seoul. Hello Ansan!</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/10/goodbye-seoul-hello-ansan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in "Apts"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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Sigh, goodbye Bongchun-Dong.
We moved out of our apartment above mid-October into a cheap place we bought in Ansan, south of Seoul. We needed somewhere cheaper and buying a place seem a much better move than renting again. I hate renting: you slave away at work for a landlord you&#8217;ve never met. It&#8217;s just throwing cash [...]
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		<title>Hyundai AMCO and Sangdo Committee Fight Back</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/10/hyundai-amco-and-sangdo-committee-fight-back/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/10/hyundai-amco-and-sangdo-committee-fight-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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At this night meeting on site we heard the latest news in the fight against the deep corruption and stupidity that has been holding up the Sangdo construction project.  After the news there was a Q &#38; A session that became rather heated and emotional.
The battle lines were drawn like this: the young generation&#8211;progressive, forward [...]
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		<title>Institute of the Clueless</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/09/institute-of-the-clueless/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/09/institute-of-the-clueless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Seoul Natl. University]]></category>

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It&#8217;s been a couple of months since I resigned from the Language Education Institute at SNU after 6 years on the job. I left with an overwhelming feeling of contempt for the place and how it is run.  My patience just ran out, and the most important thing to do then was to quit.
I&#8217;ve had [...]
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		<title>Sangdo Housing Corruption Uncovered</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/09/sangdo-housing-corruption-uncovered/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/09/sangdo-housing-corruption-uncovered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in "Apts"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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Yesterday evening, under overcast skies, a meeting was held at the Sangdo construction site to discuss the state of things. It had been hastily called the day before. We got there around 5 pm and it went on until it after dark, with people arriving steadily.
I told my wife before heading down there, not knowing [...]
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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>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/09/eyes-of-the-tailless-animals/#comments</comments>
		<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>AMCO Triumphs in Court!</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/08/amco-triumphs-in-court/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/08/amco-triumphs-in-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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Some great news today that is keeping me chuckling. AMCO has begun construction! The gates down at the construction site where our apartment will be built are finally open again, signs are up and trucks will be rolling.
This comes after the court ruled in our favor of AMCO, and by extension us, on all counts [...]
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		<title>Trouble Makers Walk Out at AMCO Vote</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/07/trouble-makers-walk-out-at-amco-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/07/trouble-makers-walk-out-at-amco-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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One small flower and big stupidity created all of the problems and delays we&#8217;ve had for the past 3 years.
Imagine the scene in 2003. A community vote is being held to nominate the builder of the Songdo redevelopment. All the people there are residents, whose homes will be demolished and who will gain an new [...]
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		<title>Korean Gangster, Hanjin, Continues Bullying Tactics</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/06/korean-gangster-hanjin-continues-bullying-tactics/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/06/korean-gangster-hanjin-continues-bullying-tactics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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Hanjin, the builder that behaves like a Korean gangster organization, accepted that if members of the development community voted them out, they would leave. Everyone did vote Hanjin out, opting for Amco instead, unanimously. However, Hanjin does not want to go now, not without blackmailing us for as much money as possible.
The case has gone [...]
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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>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/06/north-korean-hell-and-south-korean-trivia/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/03/convert-mp3-to-kmp/#comments</comments>
		<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>We Choose AMCO. Good Riddance Hanjin.</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/03/we-choose-amco-good-riddance-hanjin/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/03/we-choose-amco-good-riddance-hanjin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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Here is the vote taking place for the AMCO Constructions Company to take over the construction of the Sangdo Haemoro apartment complex from Hanjin and Daemyung. This is where our community got to tell those gangsters to go to hell.
Hanjin representatives had tried to call my wife several times during the week, no doubt to [...]
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		<title>Rabbit Wars</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/02/rabbit-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/02/rabbit-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Panda, Monty & Ricco]]></category>

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Well, here are they are, facing each other off over the front line, which was established between them as the threshold between the living room and the balcony.
We tried introducing Ricco, a younger and weaker male to Monty, the older and much more muscly male, whose territory was being imposed upon. Advise we&#8217;d read suggested [...]
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		<title>Introducing Ricco!!!</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/01/introducing-ricco/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/01/introducing-ricco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Panda, Monty & Ricco]]></category>

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Oh, not another one! Yes, we&#8217;ve got another orphan rabbit to add to our collection. It&#8217;s Ricco!
How did we end up with him? Well, a member of KARA (the animal rights group I made a website for) belongs to a church that has a kindergarten out the back with a kind of romper room and [...]
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		<title>Korean Gangster &amp; Builder Hanjin Gets Wacked!</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/01/korean-gangster-builder-hanjin-gets-wacked/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2009/01/korean-gangster-builder-hanjin-gets-wacked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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Part of the crowd at the resident&#8217;s meeting.
A community meeting was held last week to discuss the matter of the gangster building company, Hanjin, and its continuing attempts to rob future residents like us involved in the Haemoro apartment complex. The manoeuvrings involve Hanjin&#8217;s trademark dirty tactics and coercion techniques.
A decision was made at that [...]
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		<title>Healing Tao Thingy</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/12/healing-tao-thingy/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/12/healing-tao-thingy/#comments</comments>
		<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>Builders Hanjin &amp; Daemyung: Korean Gangsters</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/11/hanjin-daemyung-korean-gangsters/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/11/hanjin-daemyung-korean-gangsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Real-Estate Game]]></category>

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Sharks on all sides in a feeding frenzy. Hardly high class at the moment.
Everything seemed to be going along fine. Trucks were constantly going in and out of the main entrance of the Haemoro construction site in Sangdo. Then last weekend, when going past on the bus, I noticed the main gates closed. That&#8217;s unusual, [...]
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		<title>Loos With A View</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/10/loos-with-a-view/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/10/loos-with-a-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curious Sights]]></category>

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One of the first places I visited when I arrived in Seoul years ago was Jongno Tower. The building is intriguing with its three pillared design, standing like some giant metallic invader out of a sci-fi movie.
I found out there was a restaurant up in its top section, so I immediately booked a table. The [...]
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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>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/07/dokdo-protest-barbarity/#comments</comments>
		<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>Getting Married for Real in Korea</title>
		<link>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/07/getting-married-for-real-in-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/07/getting-married-for-real-in-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wedding]]></category>

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Mission: Get officially registered as married and obtain a spousal F-2 visa in one day.
Forecast: Not a hope in hell.

Totally Useless Information from the Seoul Immigration website.
This is a basic rundown of how to go about getting officially married in Korea. Perhaps it will help someone.
Part I
I&#8217;ve had little to do with the Australian embassy [...]
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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>
		<comments>http://ansan.homelinux.com:8081/blog/2008/05/north-korean-reality-through-poetry/#comments</comments>
		<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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