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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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Korean culture - 7.
Korean women - 10!  |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I voted 10 of course. Heck, I'm doing my MA in Korean Studies. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Cedar wrote: |
| I voted 10 of course. Heck, I'm doing my MA in Korean Studies. |
Are you studying that in Korea? How is it? |
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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Someone mentioned Dolmens. I think they are fascinating. I visited the site in Kochang a while back, and Dolmen village a little further south. This country used to have many of these sites, but they were bulldozed over for the sake of industrial develppement and high rise buildings. It's a shame , but many old and traditional things are a bit of an embarrasment to a lot of Koreans
Korea has more megalithic stuff than any other country in the world, but do you think they'd play it up to the countries benefit. Not a prayer. It doesn't boost the countries productivity so it get's relegated to the unimportant.
There is a lot of megalithic stuff in North Korea too apparently. Some of it much bigger than the what's at Kangwha Island or Kochang.[img][/img][img][/img]
A good reference for Korean Dolmens
http://myhome.shinbiro.com/~kbyon/dolmen/asia.htm
Last edited by Len8 on Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:26 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| The longer I stay here the more it decreases. |
So what number are you down to now....?
I just got back after time away, so I'm a little more open to the place again now, and in a different living and work situation that is all letting me experience some new stuff. Right now it's cool, but in a few months I'll just add it to the list of things I have no interest in whatsoever up until this point. |
Probably a 2. Well maybe a 1 since they shut down Yongsan.  |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| Many Koreans are so nationalistic about how earth shatteringly important their history is, how perfect their language is, how "very delicious" their food is etc. that most foreigners who've been other places, and seen how things work in "Planet Not Korea" have no desire to play along with something they decide is crap. . |
Poignant. |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| i would have answed about -2 if it were an option. i gained nothing from my experience here. i just hope living here hasn't made me a worse person. |
I would have rated my interest in Korea, Koreans, and their Kulture a -10.
I know that living here has made me a worse person. It'll take time to erase the traits I've adopted in this festering *beep* hole of a country.
Today I told some guy on the subway to "*beep* off" because he wouldn't stop talking to me. I regularly knock people out of my way when they walk into me, flip off groups of children who yell "HELLOHOWAREYOUNICETOMEETYOU!!!!!", and the smell of human feces wafting from every rotten corner of this cesspit nation doesn't even bother me anymore.
One more week. |
Since I came to Korea I have become less patient, more belligerent, more bitter and more cynical. Yes, it's time to go. I'll finish my contract but unless something changes dramatically for me I think it would be a mistake to stay another year. Things do change though, so who knows? |
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maxxx_power
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
Location: BWAHAHAHAHA! I'M FREE!!!!!!!
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| Good luck Zed. |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:42 am Post subject: |
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Since I came to Korea I have become less patient, more belligerent, more bitter and more cynical. Yes, it's time to go. I'll finish my contract but unless something changes dramatically for me I think it would be a mistake to stay another year. Things do change though, so who knows?
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Yeah... I've been to a lot of countries. 50 and counting. This place does my head in for some reason. It's turned me into a real bastard. It's been really the only place that I have to step back from myself sometimes and have a really good look. |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| Zed wrote: |
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| Many Koreans are so nationalistic about how earth shatteringly important their history is, how perfect their language is, how "very delicious" their food is etc. that most foreigners who've been other places, and seen how things work in "Planet Not Korea" have no desire to play along with something they decide is crap. . |
Poignant. |
Ah....thanks......unless you're being sarcastic. |
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lief
Joined: 13 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:04 am Post subject: learning |
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I learn more from my students then they do from me. They even taught me how to fix my laundry machine. 
I get a better idea of my own home when I get away from it.
I shake my head when Koreans tell me they want "western style!"
I'm more interested in seeing the temples and museums than many of the younger Koreans in Seoul.
It's the same back home in Canada - WHAT!? A class trip to Pinoneer Village?! Kill me now. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Are you a dolm-aniac, too? 
The coolest photo of one was a dolmen in snow. The snow took the light and made a cool, quiet mood, but bright. And let the colour of the stone and its texture stand out nobly.
With a lot of them no archaelogists have unearthed the tomb's underneath. Which adds some mystery.
In Kochang there was one on the corner of the village street right beside a gas station. Another was on a hillside within view of the sea with the farmer's field tilled around it, left in place. I went to a famous one following arrow signs. Going thru narrow lanes and finding it beside a house on a slight hill, bamboo around. It was a 'tall-legged one'. Two upright stone panels with a much heavier, huge slab resting on top. |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| Cedar wrote: |
| I voted 10 of course. Heck, I'm doing my MA in Korean Studies. |
Wow. I hope that's something more interesting than learning 50 different regional styles of playing the Kayageum. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
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| I voted 10 of course. Heck, I'm doing my MA in Korean Studies. |
Are you studying that in Korea? How is it? |
It's good. I think that most of or all of the GSIS programs in Korea have their good and bad points, but I feel like I am learning a lot, the connections are very good, and even when the class isn't the best, I can still push myself to learn more or take it farther. I think that for studying Korean studies it only makes sense to do it here. Last weekend I was sort of complaining to a source/friend/teacher person I know that I felt none of my professors at my school knew that much about my field of interest, and he said "no one anywhere can learn from just one teacher, no matter what university, you'd still have to go find people outside to learn everything you want to." Well, in Korea it's a lot easier to go out on the street and find someone who knows than it would be if I was at Columbia, UW or any of the other big Korean Studies programs. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| matthewwoodford wrote: |
| Cedar wrote: |
| I voted 10 of course. Heck, I'm doing my MA in Korean Studies. |
Wow. I hope that's something more interesting than learning 50 different regional styles of playing the Kayageum. |
No, I'm not a Kayageum person... but there is a lot of work that can still be done in Korean ethnomusicology by someone with the right musical background (that wouldn't be me!).
One of the downsides to the Korean Studies programs in my opinion EVERYWHERE is that they are either 1. focused on one aspect of Korea too closely or 2. not focused at all.
What I mean is, if you look at the programs, in most the poor students have basically NO class choices, and they take everything- NK, economics, history from way back when... all mish-mashed and end up with no focus, just a general "Koreanologist" or whatever the word would be. Other programs (and not many) are so tightly focused I feel the students can't get the big picture. I have yet to find a Korean studies program that offers more class choices than the one I am in-- but there is still a real emphasis on MODERN Korea.
The program I am in has no classes on literature, arts, music, etc. at all. Korean history classes focus on the 1880s to the present. But you'd be amazed how much there is still to learn, even if you don't delve too deeply into the far distant past.
My classes this term:
Korean Studies: Korean Language and Culture
Korean Studies: Law and Politics in Korean Society
Other Major: The UN and Global Issues
Other Major: International Trade Policy and Korea (economics)
It's humbling to learn how much I still have to learn after all the time I've spent here! |
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