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Attention all male F-4 visa holders (Korean-heritage, other-nationality males)
In the past two weeks, I’ve been contacted on separate occasions by two Korean-American males, one who has been serving in the Korean Army since last October and one who is being pressured to join right now. Both of them … Continue reading
Another victim of the system
My reporter friend Fred contacted me the other week to let me know that the memoir was referenced in a Stars and Stripes article. The story is about Don Yi, a 1.5-generation* Korean-American from Ohio who served in the US … Continue reading
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Tagged i don't read the news, i should have blogged about this a while ago, my friends have to tell me about what is happening in the world, sometimes i depend on conan's monologue when it's on, the government is always going to be a bureaucratic shithole that doesn't care about individuals
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My Korean Language Journey
For a unit on language acquisition this past week, I asked my students to share their English language learning journeys. Because the class was for our near-fluent students, there was a greater variety of answers in comparison to answers given … Continue reading
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Tagged i still suck at korean, i was called a banana and twinkie when i was young for good reason, i'm not a real korean because my sat math score was not as good as my english score, korean is not an easy language to learn, silver linings are bullshit, what are they thinking, who would say such a thing
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Banned Books
During my second stint at the Battle Simulation Center in the August of 2005, I was threatened to be reported to the DSC (Defense Security Command) for reading a translation of an autobiography of Che Guevara. It was an idle … Continue reading
Bboguri
* Since my last post was not related with either the book/writing or the Army, I thought I’d post something Army-related, something I haven’t done in a long while. I was mindlessly surfing 9gag the other day when I saw … Continue reading
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Tagged bboguri, blowing my paycheck on ramen and snacks, but ramen is definitely preferable to korean army chow, i don't even really like ramen that much but i had it all the time in the army, korean army, korean army chow is the worst, ramen in the korean army, the spaghetti ramen is really sweet but i found it strangely appetizing
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A Farewell to Arms
I’ve just finished reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms again but this time as an e-book. I used to have a copy, but I must’ve lent it to someone and forgotten who it was. I wouldn’t have thrown it away … Continue reading
The First Minor Error in the Book
Last week, I got a call from a reporter who is working on an article for a website that features “untold human stories.” We had the initial interview on the 1st of May in Hongdae, and it seems that the … Continue reading
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Tagged error in a memoir, goldfish probably have a shitty memory because all they see is their shitty little fishbowls, i don't like fish, it's not that bad but also not the only one i'm sure, maybe that's why my memory is so bad because being in the army was like being a goldfish in a shitty little fishbowl, what they say about goldfish having a three-second memory isn't true, whatever
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Suha
One of the most stressful days of boot camp was when we were being tested on guard procedures. The problem was that it required me to speak in Korean. At the time, even saying my trainee number and name was … Continue reading
Other News
I’m working on some longer posts that may never get posted so in the interim, I thought I’d share a couple of links to articles I’ve read recently that I thought were interesting. Each article is about a young Korean … Continue reading
Time
“Was the Korean Army really that bad?” I was asked one day while drinking. The insinuation was that I was just a big crybaby. It was a dick question all the more because I had never complained about it once … Continue reading
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