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My Skull, I Am Bored Out Of It
Finals are next week, so this is review week. Which is really quite boring for me as we aren’t doing anything new, just going over the gory details of the exam. As I said during week one, if you stayed...
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Snow Day
Daegu, South Korea. Easily the most snow I’ve ever seen in Daegu. About four inches as of now. Time to hunker down with tea and watch movies, when I should be doing my Korean homework!
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Get With The Program
Flyer for “Daegu Queer Culture Festival,” 2012 I picked this up a few weekends ago downtown. I was pretty stunned to see a Queer Pride festival in Daegu, actually. It remains the most socially and...
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Nomz
Downtown Daegu continues to surprise me. I’ve given up on ever finding quality Mexican or Indian here, but there are actually lots of good Italian places. (I know, I know, a fried egg kind of ruins...
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Vacation, Finally
A. R. Rahman, “Jai Ho” This morning I taught my last class of the semester. The college courses have been over since early December but I’ve been teaching a class for my college’s professors and...
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Nomz
Daegu, South Korea. This is my friend jim-dak, a stewed chicken dish with glass noodles, potatoes, and rice cake that comes from the nearby city of Andong. It’s one of those “social” Korean dishes...
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LOL Racism
Daegu, South Korea (taken at a prominent expat bar). In one bit of graffiti all the racism, homophobia, and nationalistic zeal that make life so interesting in Asia! But poor Russia, up there minding...
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Nomz For Dayz
A new restaurant just opened near my apartment. ZOMG FREE RAMYEON BAR HOW WILL THIS PLACE EVER MAKE MONEY OFF OF ME?
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Terrorism In Daegu! (No Not Really Edition)
OK, let me say something nice about a Korean newspaper for once — I think The JoongAng Ilbo is decent, and their English-language news coverage is pretty good. That said, two jagoffs apparently tried...
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Post No Bills
Daegu, South Korea. This guy’s poster is everywhere in lurvely downtown Daegu. Never heard of ‘em.
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Party Like It’s Your Birthday
My college is having a free, foreigner-friendly cultural event on Thursday night at 6 p.m. in honor of Buddha’s Birthdday. If you’re in or around north Daegu let me know.
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Daegu Rock City
Caught Wye Oak in downtown Daegu last night. About 30 people turned out on a Monday night which by the standards of lurvely Daegu isn’t half-bad. They’re playing in Seoul tonight so hopefully they’ll...
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Fakery
Daegu, South Korea. This is funny — a brick-and-mortar restaurant decorated to look like one of South Korea’s ubiquitous pojang macha, or portable food tents.
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Rollin’
Grabbed a taxi home this afternoon and it was an honest-to-god full-sized SUV (Hyundai, of course). According to my cabbie Daegu is switching over to these big boys. I heartily approve because a) my...
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Sports Day
A few weeks back we had our annual sports day. Always a good time, and a reminder of just how competitive some Koreans can be. In addition to the usual suspects (soccer, running, tug-of-war) above is...
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Goon Squad
Daegu, South Korea. Branding in South Korea can be interesting, to say the least.
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