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Basketball, Korean styleFebruary 14, 2011 @ 11:37 am by Rod Benson � Filed under South Korea

You�re sitting in a particularly cold room, eating a plate of food that you don�t recognize. There is a faint smell of alcohol in the air, probably coming off of breath of one of the other 12 people in the room. Everybody is OK with this, though, because it is a celebration after all. You take off your headphones just in time to hear the end of a story:

�� And then he started throwing 50�s at random chicks, saying �B#!ch, I got money!��

Wow. Must have been a good story.

You wade through a few people with cameras and cords and find your way to the back, where your shoes are waiting for you. You take a seat and smile. Who are you?

You�re me at the Korean dunk contest.

Let�s back track a bit, shall we? I�ve been playing in Korea since August and haven�t really talked about it at length with anyone. I spoke to my mom on the phone today and gave her the same response as I give everyone else:

�I�m ok, mom. It�s cool. I�ll be back in about 6 weeks.�



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He might as well be a newbie English teacher; it is kind of funny.

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