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mavsfan5
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:32 am Post subject: What are you doing for Chu Seok (Korean Thanksgiving)? |
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Just wondering what people are doing for our upcoming three-day weekend (October 2-4). I need ideas on how to spend my last holiday in Korea.
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coralreefer_1
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:42 am Post subject: |
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Typically I go to the Andong Maskdance festival every year at this time. It is especially good that it falls on the holiday this year(usually does), meaning I have the time and many Koreans will be busy with their families. |
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halfmanhalfbiscuit
Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:04 am Post subject: |
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Sitting in traffic, giving away money, food, makkoli...then it's Monday. |
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seonsengnimble
Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Location: taking a ride on the magic English bus
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:06 am Post subject: |
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praying to my ancestors for a year when holidays fall on weekdays |
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Cohiba

Joined: 01 Feb 2005
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:07 am Post subject: |
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What: Biannual Deokjeokdo Camping Trip (May and October)
Where: Seopori Beach, Deokjeok Island
When: October 2-4, 2009
Price: Free � This is a DIY affair
How: 60min. ferry from Domestic Ferry Terminal in Yeonam Budu(Incheon Port), bus to beach 10min
Ferry Info: (032)887-2891~5
Abodes: There is camping on the beach or motels, I recommend camping.
Food: There are restaurants and supermarkets, again I recommend
bring your own food in a cooler and cooking on the beach.
To Do: Swimming, disk golf, camp fires, camp songs, camp sex
Notes: The ferry is usually really full this time of year so I would
reserve tickets now.
This Year:
1/ Master of the Universe "Cups" tourney with a bottle of Jack Daniels
for the winning team. Maybe 1,000KRW per person to enter. As usual
you MUST be carrying a drink at ALL times during play.
2/ The never ending "last hole leader chooses next hole" disk golf
tourney.
3/ The Century Club. 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes.
4/ The usual campfire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deokjeokdo
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/554653393qAUsHT
http://www.dukjukdo.com/
Ferry Sites:
http://www.jindotr.co.kr/
http://www.urief.co.kr/
http://www.daebuhw.com/ |
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DrugstoreCowgirl
Joined: 08 May 2009 Location: Daegu-where the streets have no name
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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I wanted to go to Japan but it's pretty expensive right now to get there and nobody wanted to spend the money. I will probably go to Seoul or the Andong Mask Fest. |
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asmith
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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I have to hang out with my wife's relatives and bow to the ghosts.
I plan to drink many bottles of Toad Juice. |
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mavsfan5
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:31 am Post subject: |
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bump. |
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storysinger81

Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Meeting future husband's relatives. Watching them mock, scorn, and chide me for failing to know how to prepare 1000s of dishes of sidedishes, washing dishes in the wrong way, and not giving my future mother-in-law enough money. Pretending not to understand 'cause my listening skills are better than speaking in Korean and while I will know what they're saying, I'm sure I'll be too nerve-wracked and embarassed to respond coherently. (Can anyone tell I'm nervous? I'm sure it won't be this bad, but I have nightmares...).
Wish I could spend it with my friend's family, as usual, who adopted me when I first came to the country and have treated me as a weird, white daughter ever since. |
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azzwell
Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: where the girls from Super Junior cannot find me
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:59 am Post subject: |
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have fun at the mask festival, its been cancelled
www.maskdance.com |
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tzechuk

Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:44 am Post subject: |
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I will most likely be on my own.  |
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oskinny1

Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Location: Right behind you!
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:08 am Post subject: |
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That is so pathetic. Of course tens of thousands are going to baseball games everyday, millions are riding subways daily, but let's cancel the few cultural things that Korea actually has. |
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tenchu77491
Joined: 16 Mar 2009
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:28 am Post subject: |
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storysinger81 wrote: |
Meeting future husband's relatives. Watching them mock, scorn, and chide me for failing to know how to prepare 1000s of dishes of sidedishes, washing dishes in the wrong way, and not giving my future mother-in-law enough money. Pretending not to understand 'cause my listening skills are better than speaking in Korean and while I will know what they're saying, I'm sure I'll be too nerve-wracked and embarassed to respond coherently. (Can anyone tell I'm nervous? I'm sure it won't be this bad, but I have nightmares...).
Wish I could spend it with my friend's family, as usual, who adopted me when I first came to the country and have treated me as a weird, white daughter ever since. |
My girlfriend's mother and grandmother love me to death. Her father is another story tho. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:55 am Post subject: |
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The wife and I are in the States for this one, so she can make her phone calls home and I get to not worry about it until next year.
It's not like the ancestors are going anywhere. |
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cruisemonkey

Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:38 am Post subject: |
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seonsengnimble wrote: |
praying to my ancestors for a year when holidays fall on weekdays |
I'm going to consume massive quantities of maek-jju and drunkenly reminisce about spending Chuseok '06 in Mongolia (when I had nine days off). |
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