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The Significance of the Number 108 in Korea (opens the original)
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The last movie I saw in a theater was Project Hail Mary a few months ago. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="764" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jpbI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-med
Korean Political System, History & Evolution, 1948 to 1972 (opens the original)
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Confession to make. For me, the toughest part of keeping up this blog isn’t finding the topics to write about but finding the right angle and providing the context for those topics. Without those, it’d be a boring textbook writing. It’s not fun for me, and it sure as hell isn’t fun for you.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7bqk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa
Korea, a Country of Hypochondriacs (opens the original)
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Random Story #1When I was in Seoul back in February of this year, I noticed something I hadn’t in my previous visits to Seoul. I happened to be holed up in my apartment by myself during the Lunar New Year’s holiday and watching TV for a few hours. Oh my gosh… there were health supplements ads on TV virtually nonstop. The worst thing about it? They all made it sound like you already lack (so and so) in your system and that you’d be in trouble if you didn’t ingest their product.<a class="image-lin
Things You Can Torment Koreans with (in Jest) (opens the original)
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A few months ago, I came across this rather funny (or is it?) list of things that, as a foreigner in Korea, you can torture Koreans with. These are so part of any Korean life that I didn’t even realize they could be seen as peculiarities by outsiders. Clearly compiled all in good fun, these are indispensable part of being a Korean and not some medieval torturing practice. Ramyeon without kimchi<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_F9W!,f_auto
Korean National Museum vs. European Museums (opens the original)
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Here is an interesting statistic.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="399.3961904761905" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8QLT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages
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