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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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 Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject: Korea BUG! |
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Have you ever read any of the issues of Korea Bug? Most of them seem more like books than zines, especially the latest (it came out a couple months ago). This one is almost 400 pages long, all English and just 15,000 won. If you haven't picked it up, you should.
Why? Cause this guy is a splendid writer-- humorous and knowledgeable, sarcastic and thorough in his research. This most recent book has four sections:
1. Strange
2. Traditions
3. Arts
4. Outside Country People
Each section is well worth reading, though if you aren't interested in reading an interview with a gisaeng (Korean equivalent to a geisha, artistic entertainer), you might find a piece "The Most Famous Foreigner" about Jesus visiting Korea more your style. An excerpt:
Interviews in the arts section run from Yi Baksa to Yim Soon-rye. If you don't know who these people are, read the book, then impress the Koreans you know with your in depth knowledge Korea. Learn about how the Korean music scene has evolved, read about what Korea was like if you were a foreigner here in the mid 70s... Learn about the Muslim scene here... is there anything this book doesn't cover?
If you go out and buy this book today you will not regret it...
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Scott Burgeson's Korea Bug (2005) book is a compilation of his Bug magazine articles/interviews from past years.
Here is a review of it: http://koreabridge.com/writings/nonfiction/thor_koreabug.shtml
I thought his view refreshing. The book is well worth reading, though the interviews themselves were surprisingly the least interesting of it all. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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He's a cool guy.. met him a small handful of times..
Didn't realize he just published a 400 page book.. and its getting some rave reviews on here.. I'll definetely look out for that. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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As Vanislander already pointed out, it should be noted that the "new" book is a compilation of past articles.
He's a good writer -- he just doesn't write much that I'm interested in. And the e-mail communique at the end of the compilation is totally pseudo-intellectual and n00bish.
Sparkles*_* |
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Zenpickle
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Location: Anyang -- Bisan
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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I particularly like his take on dog meat. He points out that in English, we separate the names of meat from the animals they come from. Cow meat is beef. Pig meat is pork.
So he suggests that dog meat should be called dork.
Oh, man, now I'm craving a steaming bowl of dork soup. |
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Kenny Kimchee
Joined: 12 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| Zenpickle wrote: |
I particularly like his take on dog meat. He points out that in English, we separate the names of meat from the animals they come from. Cow meat is beef. Pig meat is pork.
So he suggests that dog meat should be called dork.
Oh, man, now I'm craving a steaming bowl of dork soup. |
Err, did he forget about chicken? |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:44 am Post subject: Re: Korea BUG! |
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| Cedar wrote: |
During his travels in Korea, Jesus went down to Cheju Island to spread peace and love among the local fishermen. He soon chanced upon three hearty old salts near the shore and called out, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men!" The three fishermen were puzzled by such curious advice, and answered back, "Hey, you strange-looking foreign barbarian, can we used your big nose for a hook?" Unpreturbed, Jesus replied benevolently, "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for one day; teach him how to fish, and he will eat for the rest of his life." Outraged by the suggestion that they didn't know their own job, the three fishermen threw down their nets in a huff, dove into the water and chased Jesus into the forest, where he barely managed to escape with his life, Cheju has always been that kind of place.
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This silly story insulting Christianity is ofensive to my religion. please remove it, or insert a different excerpt.
I don't see why christianity is regarded as open to all ridicule, yet Islam or any other faith is regarded as beyond criticism. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Rapier,
If you are really offended, I'll go back and remove it... but I think the story shows Jesus being all dreamy and philosophical and the Koreans being sort of irritable and closed towards foreigners... so I didn't think it was such a big deal.
Anyway, if you are serious, let me know... but I don't think you are... |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Cedar,
I'm serious. Not meaning to treat you harshly or anything...just, I dislike the lords name taken invain, or Christianity in any way held up to faint ridicule.
Bothers me that westerners so freely joke about the religion that is the founding or our freedoms and ideals in the west, as I see it.
With thanks:) |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Kenny Kimchee wrote: |
| Err, did he forget about chicken? |
Chork???  |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
| Bothers me that westerners so freely joke about the religion that is the founding or our freedoms and ideals in the west, as I see it. |
Religion as the founding freedoms.  Now that's a new one.
I see it more as people seeking the freedom to persecute as they would be persecuted.
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Kenny Kimchee wrote: |
| Zenpickle wrote: |
I particularly like his take on dog meat. He points out that in English, we separate the names of meat from the animals they come from. Cow meat is beef. Pig meat is pork.
So he suggests that dog meat should be called dork.
Oh, man, now I'm craving a steaming bowl of dork soup. |
Err, did he forget about chicken? |
We should call it choad. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| By the way, the beginning, which is this whole huge long essay (and very amusing) is original... it's more than 60 pages long... I don't know how much of the rest is the best excerpts of former issues... but it's a good read and most people would find it almost impossible to buy one of the old issues of Bug anyway. |
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papa_geno
Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Location: Gangneung
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| There's an interview of the man at this site. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| It��s Saturday night, and I��m standing in front of the Crown Bakery near Anguk station in Northern Seoul... |
...and we're all about to die.
Sparkles*_* |
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