Korean Job Discussion Forums

[nev]

I'm interested in reading blogs by other English teachers in Korea, or that of any foreign worker in Korea actually. I'm aware that there are a number of members here that have them, but it's quite a hassle to trawl through posts just to look.

If anybody knows of Korean blogs (good or bad), could you post links here please?

Cheers

[Mashimaro]

http://korea.banoffeepie.com/
Knock yourself out

[animalbirdfish]

An excellent blog

http://blog.marmot.cc/

[Demophobe]

Yeah...read another silly blog (one of the millions) about all of their misperceptions here.....heck, you may even be like shawner88 and get it made into a book. Whoops!! Book was cancelled....

*rant on*

Good. Save a few trees. At least, save them for something meaningful, not some euro-centric take on Korea from a closet-view. The guy was a self-confessed lazy "teacher" who also admitted he didn't care about his classes...I wonder if he put that in his blog? I read his blog online and it was total trash...subjective conjecture...not worth the bytes it occupies. I will borrow his blah-g from some poor sap who actually paid money to read about nothing and read it in the can when I am doing more important paperwork. He even has a Korean girlfriend....I guess she digs guys who are lazy and don't care? About her country?!

*rant off*

Blogs are good online, if you like reading about that kind of day-to-day drivel. It's akin to reading someone's diary....kind of a voyeuristic hobby. Personally, I have to wonder about people who live out their little lives in public like that...people who blog. Guess we are all looking for our 15 minutes in one way or another. Derrick/Gollum's diary is such....writes about things that really, should just be in a closed paper diary, locked in the bedside cupboard.

[peppermint]

There are a few of the blogs that are really informative. Some of the bloggers work as translators for the Korean media, so they cover stories that we might not otherwise hear about, cause god knows the Times and the Herald suck.

[keithinkorea]

There are some pretty good blogs about living in Korea. I like me old mate jeff's one http://jeffinkorea.blogs.com/. Catharthdae and others are amusing and or interesting, the guys who do the translation stuff for some of the papers are pretty good and often send out the news before it hits the herald and others. If you click on the link above you'll see lots of Korea related blogs and 'stuff' on the right of the page.

Blogs can be good or bad. They can be self indulgence or a useful resource. You dont have to read them but they can be interesting to get others take on things.

Just skim through the self indulgent stuff and concentrate on the valid stuff. It is often useful -though not always interesting- to get other people's take on stuff.

If you don't like any blogs then why bother reading them. Some are good, some are bad, but I dont read most of them and why should I?

On another note, are the blogs 'unlocked' now in Korea or are you folks still using proxies to access them?

[Demophobe]

[just because]

[mithridates]

Riverbend's a girl! A very good blog though, it kept me from going to sleep the first night I found it.

[shawner88]

[matthews_world]

[poddubny]

totally off-topic but here's a blog i've been reading for a while now. this guy's writing is hilarious. a korean-canadian in toronto. even funnier for me since i'm a torontonian...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/lexxy_pie/

[bibimbap]

http://www.comingupforair.net/

[uberscheisse]

my blog was finished assessing culture shock in korea about a month after i got here.

now it's generally stories. diaries are for 13 year old girls, so i now just try to make people chuckle. sometimes i'm successful.

if something pertinent happens here in seoul or in korea, i'll comment on it. mostly i blog to update my family and friends on how i am. they get my sense of humor and in my experience, 75% of the eslcafe.com community doesn't. being able to shift from lowbrow to highbrow on a dime is generally lost on the intelligentsia i guess...

[agraham]