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Geekgurl
Joined: 03 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: Gyeonggi Province is Looking for English Bloggers |
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Hello!
I was contacted by Sooyoun Choi,who is in charge of Gyeonggi Province�s foreign language websites and blogs. She is looking for more English blogs in their providence to post to on their website (http://eng.gg.go.kr/). If you do have any, feel free to send her an e-mail ([email protected] / [email protected]). They will also provide your URL on the article and credit you.
Just wanted to pass along the information for them. They had contacted me through my blog, but I do not live in their province.
Thanks!  |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I assume this is for "positive" only blogs, and not realistic ones? |
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Italy37612
Joined: 25 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| DaHu wrote: |
| I assume this is for "positive" only blogs, and not realistic ones? |
Duh |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| DaHu wrote: |
| I assume this is for "positive" only blogs, and not realistic ones? |
only fictional fairy tale blogs may apply.  |
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fake_blood
Joined: 02 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| why are you all so jaded and i'm not? |
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Italy37612
Joined: 25 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm guessing you haven't been here that long. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Ramen wrote: |
| DaHu wrote: |
| I assume this is for "positive" only blogs, and not realistic ones? |
only fictional fairy tale blogs may apply. |
Which expat bloggers do you have in mind? The one who won the essay contest about Dokdo? The ones who love K-Pop or the ones who love every restaurant? |
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Oppa
Joined: 05 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| Ramen wrote: |
| DaHu wrote: |
| I assume this is for "positive" only blogs, and not realistic ones? |
only fictional fairy tale blogs may apply. |
Which expat bloggers do you have in mind? The one who won the essay contest about Dokdo? The ones who love K-Pop or the ones who love every restaurant? |
if you think about it, if someone had the tenacity and ability to consistently praise life in Korea at every turn and be so over the top about it, that any native speaker would know it was a running joke, it'd be amusing.
for a while at least. |
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fake_blood
Joined: 02 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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why don't those people leave if they are so unhappy then?
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| I'm guessing you haven't been here that long. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not exactly "positive"---that is, don't have endorsement deals with bars in Itaewon, don't specialize in Top Ten lists, don't specialize in self-promotion, and haven't become hackneyed with the same stuff over and over and over---and I got the email, too.
But, a few times a month I get emails from some Korean website or other asking me to use my posts (for free, of course), so I imagine whomever is in charge just finds a link list and emails every one. It's nice to be included with this Gyeonggi-do one, but a lot of these blog collections don't last more than a month. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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We have good days and bad days. I can post about the good ones and today wasn't that good but I took some photos that show my kids having a good time speaking english...sorta!
Thanks for the info. I hardly ever blog but I think that as I grow in confidence as a teacher, I may also grow into more blogging. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
I'm not exactly "positive"---that is, don't have endorsement deals with bars in Itaewon, don't specialize in Top Ten lists, don't specialize in self-promotion, and haven't become hackneyed with the same stuff over and over and over---and I got the email, too.
But, a few times a month I get emails from some Korean website or other asking me to use my posts (for free, of course), so I imagine whomever is in charge just finds a link list and emails every one. It's nice to be included with this Gyeonggi-do one, but a lot of these blog collections don't last more than a month. |
It's bars, restaurants, and pie shops in Itaewon and other locations that own bloggers. But somehow I always figured you would win that Dokdo essay contest.  |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
We have good days and bad days. I can post about the good ones and today wasn't that good but I took some photos that show my kids having a good time speaking english...sorta!
Thanks for the info. I hardly ever blog but I think that as I grow in confidence as a teacher, I may also grow into more blogging. |
Why don't you post about the bad ones? Seems like people would want to know real life. |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| What's Illysook's blog? |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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Look, there's good and bad in Korea. We all know that, by now. Just be realistic when you blog. Don't try to claim that everything is good, like K-Pop. The bloggers who try to sell K-Pop to us should be trying to sell western music, you know, like the Beatles, to Koreans. How tough would that be? Who ever said "The Beatles? No, I can't support them. I'd rather go with Big Bang. Big Bang is better than the Beatles."
You can blog about some good things in Korea. There are many good things. Just don't paint a skunk red and tell everyone it's a rose. Know what I mean? |
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