Massive Roundup
MASSIVE KOREA BLOG ROUNDUP
The extent of the fallout from being offline for essentially a full week due to Blog-city’s incomprehensibly long site overhaul is now beginning to be recognized. My visits have dropped off by 50% from pre-overhaul numbers. I’m still alive. I’m undertaking this massive round up of other Korean blogs in the hopes that they will see it in their cold, flinty-black souls to send some reciprocal love back my way.
The Blogs:
Big Hominid (not for the weak of heart or humor deficient, but that’s why we love him): He stopped talking about various orifices and stopped drawing genetalia and senators corrupting the morals of sheep long enough to wax philosophic on relgion and the relationship between noumena and phenomena. Fortunately for me, I haven’t the energy to take issue with him. Once these musings were out of his system, Mr. Hyde resumed his position as dominant personality within the Big Ho and the world was put aright once more.
California Sojour: Our US-based Koreaphile recently pointed out that "The Passion" has made over USD 212 ,and there has yet to be a single incident of violence against Jews because of the film.
Cathartidea: Owner of a great boardgame cafe (that everyone should go to) located near Hongik University, admits in public that he may believe some of the same things that President Bush believes. How is it that someone so smart can be so politically wrong?
Drambuiman: Owner of a great bar and eatery (that everyone should go to) located near Hongik University, gives us his cynical view of a course of action to end all political corruption in Korea.
Flying Yangban: Takes a brave and nearly unprecedented step amongst Korean blogs by saying not one, but TWO good things about Korea.
Hunjangûi karûch’im: a Ph.D candidate writing an anthropology thesis on keepers of small shops, continues to give us some very interesting, insightful, and academic articles on Korea and things Korean.
Incestuous Amplification: Calling it quits after 6 years and returning home. He promises to unchain the dogs of war in future posts.
Kamelian Xrays: Usually very serious and politically oriented, sends us on a quest to find out which civil war general we are most like.
Kathreb: The queen mother of Korean blogging women suggests that Korea may benefit from a few executions.
Budaechigae (a.k.a. Kimchi GI) : Points us to some military babes that are party of this years Korean Military Academy graduating class. Not quite up to NK cheerleader status, but working on it locally.
Korea Life: Have camera, will travel. New pictures of drawings made by his potentially homicidal students.
It Makes a Difference to the Sheep: Talks about the recent death threat against a top-ranking NK defector and speculates on the people behind the threats.
The Marmot’s Hole: Widely regarded as the first name in Korea-related blogging, always has something worth reading.
Mingi’s Jibber Jabber: Seems to have lost his mojo as of late. However, he recently posted a shocking (or is it?) post about a news broadcast that referenced the "typical athletic tendencies of a black man."
My Resonating Life: Native Korean blogger babe Jae, is struck by several muses and goddesses as she contemplates the nature of love in lyric and prose.
Neil Barker’s Seoul: Seems to have run into the same trumpeting cowboy Christian crusaders that I bumped into a while back.
Northeast-Asian: Another native Korean bloggeress gives us some info on the new US Ambassador to Korea as well as some info on the North Korean defector trying to stay in Canada.
Partypooper: Fisks a Korean NGO site that claims, among other things that the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup led peace-loving people to reject the choice of war as policy and theory of pro-security and voice their concerns.
Rathbone Press: Points out that Roh’s 1/10′th pledge regarding illegal campaign funds and leaving office may not have been that serious after all….big shock.
Travelitch: Some people have different standards for determining if and when they "have arrived". For some, success and intergration into the upper echelons of society is determined by when they buy their first house. For some it is when the purchase their first German sport car. For me, it is painting. To me, nothing says "I have been to the mountain top. I have arrived" quite like commissioning your first painting from a serious artist. This last week, I sat down to dinner and conversation with Elizabeth from Travelitch and hammered out the details of my first commissioned painting that will hang on the wall behind my office desk. Visit her site to see her list of those questions that everyone one of us in Korea get asked every single day.
The Laughing Linden Branch: A heavily religion-oriented site has moved to a new address.
Oranckay:Digs deeper into the President Roh impeachment process and invites all to play "The Great Find the Election Law Violation Contest."