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[MollyBloom]

No, not reverse shock. I've been back and forth for a few years now. Actually, never had culture shock either.

I think I just really miss my sweetheart. Autumn is my favorite season and it's the most "romantic" in my opinion. I'm just sort of lonely, I guess. But I really do miss Korea. 대한민국 파이팅~


Or maybe I just miss you, Choco <3

[Julius]

[ThePoet]

Here is an easy recipe you can cook that will bring back the taste of Korea for you and is rather inexpensive. If you cannot get Kimchi and gim locally, go to where it is, buy it in bulk, fill sandwich bag sized ziplocks with it and then freeze it until you are ready to make the recipe (freezing it does not hurt it for the context of how you will use it in this recipe, although I don't think it is as good if you just want to eat it straight:

Kimchi Bokumbap!

Ingredients:
1 pound ham (don't get sliced ham, as you need to dice it)
1/2 pound of mushrooms (regular fresh mushrooms are ok for this although the big stemmed Korean ones are best)
1 can corn
1 bunch green onions
sesame oil
2 cups kimchi
1 cup rice (uncooked)
2 sheets gim

Pre-Preparation (15 mins)
First: boil the rice and cook thoroughly; put it aside for later
Second: take scissors and cut the kimchi into little tiny pieces, don't drain it; put aside for later
Dice ham and mushrooms to the size of your index finger
clean and chop green onion into 1/2 inch peices (smaller as you get to the root)

Cooking (30 mins)
1. Put ham and mushrooms into fry pan on medium high heat (stirring once a minute or so) and cook until the juices all cook away and you are dealing with browned ham and generally cooked mushrooms
2. add 2 tsp sesame oil
3. Add corn and cook until corn gets a little brown
4. add onions and fry up another 2 minutes
5. add kimchi and gim, stir occasionally while the kimchi juices boils down more (this is to personal preference. I've had moments where I want it really fried well...very little moisture so the rice browns up, and other times when I've made it as a type of stew...it is good either way)
6. Add rice and cook it up with everything else (I usually cook another 5 mins) stirring continually.
7. Take off the heat and enjoy.
8. (optional) Koreans always add a fried egg on top, but I don't like eggs.

the nice thing about this dish is it has protein, veggies, and carbs so with one pot you've made your whole meal. Trust me -- after eating this you will feel like you have just had a genuine Korean meal, and if you invite others over, they will get a sense of what some Korean dishes taste like. I hope that helps chase away the blues Molly. I consider this dish every bit as much comfort food to me now as I did macaroni with hamburger and tomatoes when I was in Korea.

Poet

[princey]

find a nice Ktown and move there ^^

[Jenrose]

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

Rent some decent Asian movies

Go to Chinatown and buy some Korean ingrediants and cook your own stuff, even if it's modified. It can be MollyKorean 'piusion.' It;s amazing the stuff you can add to jin ramyun.... If there's no chinatown just order it online. Ask the Korean Librarian where he buys his stuff.

No skype - buy calling cards, much much cheaper.

Yeah wallow in your sadness as see the beauty / bittersweet in it to a point and then when you're done do stuff to cheer yourself up. Sadness can be character building and give perspective but too much is too much...

And yeah, if you have the time, not only SMOE but lots of recruiting companies do winter camps. You'll have to pay your own flight but usually a 4 week camp will pay between 3 - 4 mil..... So you could go online and search for camps / mass email every recruiter on dave's job board with prospective letters for camps etc...

I've been there. Missing a loved one and a place or the atmosphere fo a place. I spent the first few motnhs dealing with it by watching tons of cool HK, Japanese, Chinese and K movies and going to Chinatown on sundays to shop, catch the lights and that Asian hustle and bustle and noise you get and then treat myself to some really good Asian food...

Chin up, you'll be fine! Feb will be here before you know it...

[MollyBloom]

For cheap flights, from the US, is it better to see a travel agent or do online booking? I haven't bought a ticket for myself since I have been back and forth, so I'm outta the loop. I'd be going east coast-Seoul.

[nero]

dbl post

[nero]

[MollyBloom]

I was in Boston/Cambridge last weekend and had the worst kimchi ever in my life. The soju was $12

I took my friend to a Korean market in Cambridge, and she pointed to a pack of kimbap, and said, "Oh, they have sushi here." The adjumma behind the counter glared at us and I just laughed nervously and sighed.

[AmericanExile]

[MollyBloom]

[AmericanExile]

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

I was going to try and write something cheery that rhymed with Dedalus, but there's nowt.

[MollyBloom]

edit: heheheh...