Public Hearing on South Korean Adoption Law Part 1
Over two hours of video in the pipeline … Watch now and stay posted.
July 11, 2009
July 7, 2009
Nice review of Fugitive Visions
I’ve graded 22 English essays and have 22 to go. Time for a little distraction.
A nice review came out of Fugitive Visions in L Magazine in New York. (THANK YOU THANK YOU!!) I’m glad it was nice because as far as I can see, it’s the ONLY review!
Fugitive Visions has been a very very quiet little thing, and for me that’s OK. I’m completely engulfed by TRACK so my plan is to just wait and come to the U.S. to do a little bookity book touring in February next year. I have 15 days of yearly vacation at my company, so that probably means it will be just a quick trip to California and Minnesota before heading back to Seoul. I keep having fantasies of quitting my job and driving around the U.S. for a month, but how realistic is that!? Truth is, I really like my job and it would be hard to lose it.
These days I’m busy putting the English subtitles on the video of the public hearing for the adoption law. I can subtitle 8 minutes in one hour. There are 2 hours of footage (it was cut short before the question and answer — sorry folks! I didn’t bring enough tape). It is really time-consuming work, but I enjoy it a lot. And no, I can’t understand Korean that well. I am working from the simultaneous translation that we taped at the hearing, but that they wouldn’t agree to let us use for “broadcast.”
So, after 4-5 years of living in Korea I think my stomach is now a fully Korean stomach, meaning it’s not in good condition. All that barbequed meat, soju, salt, and hot pepper has finally caught up to me. I’ve been living basically on Gatorade and crackers, juk, and dwenjang (and tonight, a magical Coca-Cola!) for a week. Weirdly I haven’t really lost a lot of weight. (Why is that?) I resolve to eat less Korean food if I ever stop the unintended Master Cleanse. Why do people do this on purpose!? Been to the hospital twice now, and the second time I got three mystery injections plus an IV, so now I have a big TRACK mark up my arm. Ha ha … ^^ one more bad pun …
June 25, 2009
Korean Adoption Law Revisions
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June 18, 2009
June 9, 2009
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June 2, 2009
Something that made me smile
So as you probably heard already, former President Roh Moo-hyun committed suicide, President Lee deployed over 20,000 police on the streets of Seoul to prevent riots during the mourning, North Korea launched a missile and conducted a nuclear test, Kim Jong-il named his successor, and it is expected that North Korea will fire an intercontinental ballistic missile during the summit of Lee and Obama soon. So it’s been busy and stressful in the newsroom over the past week and a half. I have been thinking about how nice it would be to flee somewhere into the countryside and spent a month by myself in a small shack. I should be writing an article tonight, but instead I am just surfing around aimlessly. Here is something I found that made me smile, from a Web site called Eat Your Kimchi.




