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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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 Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: Article on Chuseok in Sydney |
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/good-living/korea-chuseok-festival/2007/09/20/1189881657848.html
Korea Chuseok Festival
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Yuko Narushima
September 21, 2007
The way to a tourist's heart is through the stomach, says the marketing manager of the Korea Tourism Organisation, Jennifer Doherty.
So the large amount of food at the Korea Chuseok Festival at Darling Harbour is a deliberate strategy.
"A lot of Australians don't know much about Korea but they are becoming more interested through, number one, food," says Doherty, whose organisation is hosting the event with the Korean Society of Sydney.
"So many Korean restaurants have opened in major cities like Sydney, so the cuisine being promoted has made a dramatic difference."
In South Korea, Chuseok is the country's biggest festival, celebrating the harvest moon and thanksgiving. In Sydney, visitors can sample hand-made rice noodles called japchae, rice sticks in spicy sauce, dumplings, seaweed rolls and kimchi, the pickled fermented cabbage.
Even the live entertainment will have a food theme. Nanta, a Korean performance group that had a successful silent comedy on Broadway, will perform snippets from its hit show three times a day. Cabbage will fly as four Nanta cooks become sidetracked while preparing a wedding banquet and turn pots, chopping boards, knives and each other into percussion instruments.
Other entertainment includes drumming, taekwondo demonstrations and breakdancing by members of Sydney's Korean community.
"Breakdancing has become very popular in Korea," Doherty says.
Children can get their hands dirty with pottery and make paper lanterns that are used to celebrate special occasions such as Buddha's birthday. They can also try a folk game, jegichagi.
"Jegichagi is a game played with the foot," Doherty says. "It's kicking this ball of ribbons into the air and the person who can keep the ribbon in the air the longest wins."
A court dance performed with fans by women in colourful hanboks, the traditional dress for women, may inspire some visitors to try the garments on themselves.
"The hanbok is a very graceful A-line, full-length costume for women," Doherty says. "It's very flattering to any figure." And perhaps useful for disguising a stomach bloated from all the day's food. |
Nice article and a great example of how Korean culture can be spread without the resort to noxious flag waving and proclamations of cultural superiority and grandeur. However, the last quote in bold sounds like it was spewed straight out of the arse of a VANKer. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, its kinda nice to know that there will be Korean food around my next destination because I might actually get a hankering for it sometimes..
It does say the hanbok looks good on "any figure". So, when a woman wears it, it makes her body look like that of a man, and visa versa... it makes all people look good in the same way, just like walking designer curtains. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Campsie and Eastwood, suburbs of Sydney, would be the places to go to get your Korean fix. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Campsie and Eastwood, suburbs of Sydney, would be the places to go to get your Korean fix. |
cool, thanks. actually, headed to melbourne... |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| pest2 wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Campsie and Eastwood, suburbs of Sydney, would be the places to go to get your Korean fix. |
cool, thanks. actually, headed to melbourne... |
I'm from Brisbane, but have noticed a sizable increase in the number of Koreans there due to the popularity of language schools there in my two visits since I have been over here. Melbourne, I would imagine, will have seen a similar increase. Look around universities and language institutes for your Korean food fix. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| pest2 wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Campsie and Eastwood, suburbs of Sydney, would be the places to go to get your Korean fix. |
cool, thanks. actually, headed to melbourne... |
I'm from Brisbane, but have noticed a sizable increase in the number of Koreans there due to the popularity of language schools there in my two visits since I have been over here. Melbourne, I would imagine, will have seen a similar increase. Look around universities and language institutes for your Korean food fix. |
I heard Melbourne is quite international with food from all over the place... im really looking forward to going/living there. |
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Kimchi Cha Cha
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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Should be a fair bit of Korean food in Melbourne. Haven't been there for a few years but I imagine around the city centre and university campuses (RMIT and Uni. of Melb.) just to the north of the city, there should be Korean food as I'd imagine there's quite a few Korean students studying there.
Each time I go back to Sydney, I'm amazed at the noticable increase in Korean people and establishments there and I'd imagine it'd be the same in all the major cities.
Sydney followed by Brisbane seem to the top choices for Koreans moving/traveling/studying in Australia. Though, if you're after international food it's in abundance in every major city particularly Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth which have housed the vast majority of migrants to Australia in the last 50 years. Adelaide should still have plenty of international food though not as much as the other big 5 cities. Even smaller cities such as the Gold Coast, Darwin, Newcastle, Wollongong, Geelong, Townsville and Cairns should have a decent variety of international food. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: Article on Chuseok in Sydney |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| However, the last quote in bold sounds like it was spewed straight out of the arse of a VANKer. |
I don't think so. It seems like a standard complimentary way to describe an outfit. How would you describe the hanbok in a non VANKerish way? |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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It's good to see lot's of Korean businesses in Australia, Canada, and the USA.
With so many foreigners in Korea, where are the foreign owned businesses?
Lots of Vietnamese restaurants, how many run by Vietnamese?
Lot's of Italian restaurants (bad ones), how many run by Italians? |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| GoldMember wrote: |
It's good to see lot's of Korean businesses in Australia, Canada, and the USA.
With so many foreigners in Korea, where are the foreign owned businesses?
Lots of Vietnamese restaurants, how many run by Vietnamese?
Lot's of Italian restaurants (bad ones), how many run by Italians? |
exactly...
the last time I was in Australia - everything was foreign owned....
most people who were not driving Fords or Holdens were driving Hyundais and Kias...
most taxi drivers were from Nigeria...
almost every street corner had a "sushi shop" run by Japanese and Koreans...
there were sooooooo many Indian, Italian, Korea, Japanese and Chinese restaurants on every other street corner....
mostly ALL the "tourist souvenir" shops were owned and managed by either Chinese or Korean people....
and YEAH... Nexon is also there - running large company office-security systems etc....
the ONLY Australians I really met were the bus drivers... and their slang was so bad... I could hardly understand them...... "Ware ya going mate?" "Oh, she'll be right" etc etc
But I think that is what Australia is - its a country made up of people from ALL over the world.... isn't Canada, USA and England the same?
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Article on Chuseok in Sydney |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| However, the last quote in bold sounds like it was spewed straight out of the arse of a VANKer. |
I don't think so. It seems like a standard complimentary way to describe an outfit. How would you describe the hanbok in a non VANKerish way? |
Not by calling it flattering to any figure. That is just an outrageous lie. |
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in_seoul_2003
Joined: 24 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:57 am Post subject: Re: Article on Chuseok in Sydney |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| However, the last quote in bold sounds like it was spewed straight out of the arse of a VANKer. |
I don't think so. It seems like a standard complimentary way to describe an outfit. How would you describe the hanbok in a non VANKerish way? |
Not by calling it flattering to any figure. That is just an outrageous lie. |
How about:
"The Hanbok is an egalitarian concept: in a society where ones image can be at such variance with idealized body types, the Hanbok steps in as a somewhat feminist socio-cultural critique by making us all look maternal and fat." |
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winterwawa
Joined: 06 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| On its best day, Sydney, is nothing but a den if iniqity. most of the korean women who go there work as whores in the numerous sex shops, which are owned by koreans. I wish the whole island would sink to the bottom of the ocean. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Article on Chuseok in Sydney |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| However, the last quote in bold sounds like it was spewed straight out of the arse of a VANKer. |
I don't think so. It seems like a standard complimentary way to describe an outfit. How would you describe the hanbok in a non VANKerish way? |
Not by calling it flattering to any figure. That is just an outrageous lie. |
That's code for 'even fat people look okay in it'. As opposed to a kimono, which would look terrible on anyone who isn't slender.
You still didn't answer my question. You can't say what you wouldn't say. We already know what you wouldn't say from reading the OP. I asked what you would say. How can you describe traditional garb in a general complimentary style--as typically seen in newspapers--without being VANKerish? |
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