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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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Sorry you got really sick.
But -- I walked into an emergency room with a lacertion.
The cashier was shocked at the size of the bill and very concerned that I didn't have insurance. It was W20,000!
I love that. In the US, I'd still be paying off the bill! |
thanks. 5 days in hospital.. no operations, no food, serveral x-rays & ultrasounds and just a few liters of morphine and the bill was nearly 700,000 with insurance.
in australia... it would be free |
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Thomas
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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Peppermint,
Obviously if you eat bibimbap EVERYDAY its not going to be healthy or appealing..... 
Also, if you eat "meat and potatoes" everyday it is not going be healthy or appealing.
The Korean diet is made up of much more than bibimbap. It can be as varied as you want it to be if you make the effort to look.
In our case, we eat mostly Korean but once a or twice a week we cook western food or other types of food at home. |
Hey, that's a perfect segway into plugging my old Job Information Post:
When I first came here, I was taken out for many, many meals. Of course, every Korean wanted me to "try" the bibimbap and bulgogi. Granted, these are quite good, but after having bibimbap for lunch 38 times in a row and bulgogi for dinner 38 times in a row, (I am exaggerating), I decided to start trying new stuff on my own and from teachers' recommendations. I kept a little notebook with the Korean names and an English description. I hope you find this helpful. (In my humble opinion, Korean food is awesome.. I love it!)
1. ���� (Sam Gyeop Sal) - Roasted side pork, usually wrapped in lettuce with seasoned soy bean paste.
2. ������ (Kam Ja Tang) - A hearty stew made with potatoes and pork bones.
3. �κα�ġ (Too Boo Kimchee) - A plate of warm tofu and kimchee, often served with soju.
4. ����� (Bee Gee Chee Gay) - A thick stew made from the skins of the soybeans.
5. ������ (In Jeol Mee) - Round or rectangular rice cakes brushed with bean powder.
6. ��ä (Jhap Chay) - A dish of clear noodles mixed with various vegetables.
7. ����� (Tien Jang Chee Gay) - A hearty stew of soy bean paste, tofu and vegetables.
8. Į���� (Kal Gook Soo) - Broad white flour noodles in a rich broth.
9. ��ġ������ (Cham Chee Boke Um) - Stir-fried tuna and kimchee with rice.
10. �ø� (Naeng Myeon) - Cold buckwheat noodles, served in an icy broth with various vegetables, a boiled egg and mustard paste.
11. ��� (Kimbap) - Vegetables and ham rolled in rice and seaweed.
12. ��ġ��� (Cham Chee Kimbap)- Tuna and vegetables rolled in rice and seaweed.
13. ������ (Noo Duh Kimbap) - Vegetables and other ingredients rolled in seaweed and rice with the rice facing out.
14. �Ұ��� (Bool Gogi)- Marinated beef with mushrooms and other vegetables cooked in a pot.
15. �ޱ�ſ��� (Maegi Mae Oon Tang) - Spicy stew made with whole catfish.
16. ������ (Tokk Boke Ee) - Cylindrical rice cakes boiled in hot sauce.
17. ���� (Tokk Gook) - Flat round rice cakes in a thin broth, commonly served on Lunar New Year's Day.
18. ������ (Nae Jang Tang) - Spicy soup made from fish intestines and vegetables.
19. ���ܹ� (Tole Sut Bap) - Rice and vegetables served in a hot stone bowl.
20. ȣ�ΰ��� (Hoe Doo Gwa Ja) - Sweet walnut cakes made in the shape of a walnut, famous in Chonan.
21. ������ (Say Ooh Cheot) - Salted shrimp, used as a seasoning for pork or for making kimchee.
22. ������ (So Long Tang) - A soup made from beef broth, spring onions, rice, salt, and red pepper paste.
23. �߰��� (Tak Kal Bi) - Boneless chicken seasoned with spring onions, red pepper paste, sweet potatoes, rice cakes and garlic; usually wrapped in lettuce with seasoned soy bean paste.
24. ���� (Tak Jook) - Thick porridge made from chicken broth, sticky rice, ginseng, garlic and salt.
25. ���� (All Tang) - Spicy soup made from fish eggs, red pepper, spring onions and other seasonings.
26. ���� (Jang Oh Goo Ee) - Marinated and barbecued eel filets wrapped in lettuce.
27. ����� (Sam Gye Tang) - A whole chicken stuffed with rice, jujubes, garlic and ginseng and boiled whole.
(http://www.eslcafe.com/jobinfo/asia/sefer.cgi?display:994208288-22530.txt)
My advice: print it out and try the ones you haven't so far... and maybe post up a more current one with some new stuff on it. |
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Sojuman99
Joined: 30 Nov 2003
Location: Leaning Right
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:03 am Post subject: Re: Things I like about living in Korea |
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I heard similar talk during the IMF crisis in Korea, and one guy who said he was in some master's econ program started to feel all big and bad in thinking he'd predict the next big crisis (maybe he was doing that and making fries at the same time during his shift). Guess what, it NEVER happened. Korea did recover and won plenty of accolades in recovering rapidly from the Asian crisis. As of February 2004, Standard and Poor's gives Korea an A- sovereign rating despite the North Korean threat and the like.
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Hey,
I remember that clown, Chuck or something like that, out of Kwangju. Quite the whiner he was, whined about the US one day, Korea the next.
What ever happened to him ? |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:26 am Post subject: Re: Things I like about living in Korea |
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| Sojuman99 wrote: |
| Yaya wrote: |
I heard similar talk during the IMF crisis in Korea, and one guy who said he was in some master's econ program started to feel all big and bad in thinking he'd predict the next big crisis (maybe he was doing that and making fries at the same time during his shift). Guess what, it NEVER happened. Korea did recover and won plenty of accolades in recovering rapidly from the Asian crisis. As of February 2004, Standard and Poor's gives Korea an A- sovereign rating despite the North Korean threat and the like.
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Hey,
I remember that clown, Chuck or something like that, out of Kwangju. Quite the whiner he was, whined about the US one day, Korea the next.
What ever happened to him ? |
Yeah, Chuck the Schmuck. Last I heard, he was finishing some graduate program in economics and he later said, "Oh, wow, Korea is recovering. Duhhh, I never thought about that." |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
Peppermint,
Obviously if you eat bibimbap EVERYDAY its not going to be healthy or appealing.....
Also, if you eat "meat and potatoes" everyday it is not going be healthy or appealing.
The Korean diet is made up of much more than bibimbap. It can be as varied as you want it to be if you make the effort to look.
In our case, we eat mostly Korean but once a or twice a week we cook western food or other types of food at home. |
You missed my point-
I don't eat "meat and potatoes" everyday, cause I haven't eaten meat(willingly) in seven years.
I don't know what you mean by "western food". Is it anything that's not Korean?  I wouldn't consider Thai or Indian food western, but I eat that fairly often. Sounds like a Korea vs the outside world kinda viewpoint. For the record, I very rarely eat "Canadian" food either. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:54 am Post subject: |
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| wylde wrote: |
| OiGirl wrote: |
Sorry you got really sick.
But -- I walked into an emergency room with a lacertion.
The cashier was shocked at the size of the bill and very concerned that I didn't have insurance. It was W20,000!
I love that. In the US, I'd still be paying off the bill! |
thanks. 5 days in hospital.. no operations, no food, serveral x-rays & ultrasounds and just a few liters of morphine and the bill was nearly 700,000 with insurance.
in australia... it would be free |
Wow! I guess it's all a matter of perspective...in the US it would be ten times that much!
How about this: Korean medical insurance is awful if you are accustomed to socialized health care, but pretty good if you are from the US! |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
Peppermint,
I don't eat "meat and potatoes" everyday, cause I haven't eaten meat(willingly) in seven years.
I don't know what you mean by "western food". Is it anything that's not Korean? I wouldn't consider Thai or Indian food western, but I eat that fairly often. Sounds like a Korea vs the outside world kinda viewpoint. For the record, I very rarely eat "Canadian" food either. |
Homer's Korean apologetics is going into dietary matters.
Who knew?
peppermint, I am making this post only to point out I am having sloppy joe's for dinner, with the added befit of grilled onions and some thai peppers thrown in for good measure |
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Saxiif
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: Seongnam
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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What really takes some getting used to is that the basics of the impoverished college student cuisine, beans and potatoes, (make a lot of chilis and potato-heavy curries and whatnot) are not insanely expensive over here 
Oh well at least my pork psuedo-biryani in which ketchup and flavored yogurt had to be used due to the crappyness of my local LG Mart turned out surprisingly good (I'm chalking that up to the glory of gochujang). |
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Homer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Peppermint,
This is what you said:
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| I tried, but bibimbap everyday is not healthy, nor is it enjoyable after the hundreth time straight. |
I must have missunderstood your post....you have my apologies.
My point was not to say Korean food was all good....it was to say that it can be varied if you make the effort.
Now if you are a vegetarian, it might be limiting, but thats from being a vegetarian...not from the Korean diet.
You would of course have less choices when it comes to veggies then back home...thats for sure.
Finally my point was just to say that the Korean diet is not limited to bibimpap and that one does not have to eat it everyday.
There are many culinary options here.
As for western food, I meant food that is usually eaten in western countries.
Thai, vietnamese or japanese food would fall into the "asian food" category.....obviously... 
Anyway, I missunderstood you, that was my mistake.
TMKATM....geeez man...take a rest...I was making a comment not claiming that Korean food is all good.
In fact, when have I said that Korea was all good and that the rest was all bad?
Never man.....
I try and see things from different angles thats all.
Perhaps you should look up what apologist means (again) and then read my posts....hopefully you would see the difference.
Finally, you can a very varied diet here...it all depends on you and the efforts you put into it.
Some things migth be harder to obtain or not available. This just means you replace them with something else. |
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