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JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Came here for two years.

Now, three have gone by and I'm still here.

I'll leave after I fulfill my goals of learning Korean, Korean culture, and saving up enough for a Master's; or after 5 years, which ever comes first.

Cedar · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

HOMER

you are using one of my photos without contacting me, without asking me, without noticing that it's copyrighted... etc. etc. etc. and you are using it on a site you know I frequent. WHAT THE FFFFF8%@??????????????(Cedar's head flies up into the air emitting sparks).

If you were going to do this, at the least you could throw a credit and a link onto your signature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget, I try to make a living off these photos...

Ody · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here

desultude · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject:

Wow! You are a great photographer, Cedar. I wondered when I saw it as his avatar who took it. Where is it?

Yep, the internet makes it all too easy to forget attribution.

Homer · Guest

First,

I did not know this was one of your pictures Cedar.

I got this picture (along with others) by email from a friend.
You have my apologies for using your picture. I have removed it and will no longer use it as my avatar.

Really, I had no idea.

It is a gorgeous picture by the way.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Uh-oh... I just snagged Homer's erstwhile avatar, fired it off to our T-shirt mill in China, and by this time next week 200,000 tourists will have those monks emblazoned across their midriff. Cedar, will you accept 500 XL Beefy-Tees in lieu of royalties? Embarassed

The Guru swears he never set foot in Korea.... and he's leaving the premises right now.

Thanks heaps, Homer. Mad

Seriously though, when I first clicked on this thread, Homer's avatar was gagaga-gigantic... like half the page. Hard to navigate... Click! again -- It's half it's original size. Click! once more -- It's pointlessly miniscule. A final Click! --- It's gone.

I can only vaguely remember it now. It was a photo of monks(?) walking down a stone path beside a wall, wasn't it? Anyone remember? Neutral

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Is the original thread idea still viable?

I put my friends through a regrettably long goodbye -- one week I was hellbent to come here, the next week I'd changed my mind (after reading stories here!) & back & forth. I dont like ditherers & there I was being one.

Finally my daughter all but pushed me onto the plane saying "Its only a year dad, if you hate it you can come home sooner, but if you dont try you'll always regret what might have been."

Lesson learned. I'll take a bit of credit for raising kids with an ounce of wisdom too. Korea turned out to be the perfect challenge for me. 6 years now.

teachingld2004 · Joined: 29 Mar 2004

Going on year #5. Planned to be here one year. Then planned to be here one more year, etc etc.

Korea grows on some of us. I like the life here. It sure isnt't Brooklyn where I was afraid to walk down the street. (but then again, never had a robbery here, had one in Gangneung.....)

I am living a comfortable life here. I helped my son buy a business back home, and now I have to be here this year, and next year to save money for me.

I never had saved any money at home. Just worked to pay rent and monthly bills. Here things are quite differnt.

When I go home in less then 2 more years, I will have enough money to buy a car, put down a deposit on a place to live, and furnish it while looking for a job. I never could have done that at home.