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Korean Maemi

by on May 23, 2013 in My Life That Was Korea: 1990 - ?, Random Crap, South Korea

Starting to feel like summer in Daejeon which means summer is just around the corner and the return of the Korean maemi (cicada). They are noisy little critters.

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War Remains Cracks Amazon’s Top Ten

by on May 22, 2013 in Korean War, South Korea, War Remains

And I am in some great company. I know it’s only for a while (by now the book has probably slipped out of the Top Ten) but it was a good feeling while it lasted. I hope this exposure at the top of the charts will make more people interested in downloading a copy and [...]

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International Market Research competition at SolBridge — Round One

by on May 17, 2013 in My Life That Was Korea: 1990 - ?, South Korea

On the evening of May 16th, 19 teams of 4-5 students participated in round one of the first International Market Research competition. Students had to choose an APEC country and by looking at various aspects of the country, including, but not limited to, infrastructure, economy, and industry, and then make recommendations during a ten-minute presentation [...]

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Worst Photoshop Photo Ever

by on May 9, 2013 in My Life That Was Korea: 1990 - ?, South Korea, Waking up in the Land of the Morning Calm

South Korean President Park Geun-hye (L) shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama at a White House meeting on May 7. (Yonhap)   If there was a contest for the worst photoshopped photo, the Yonhap News Agency in South Korea would would hands down with this photo. The person President Park is really shaking hands with [...]

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Dennis Rodman: Our Man in Pyongyang

by on April 16, 2013 in Asia, South Korea

Guess who’s thinking about going back to Pyongyang to hang with his bud, Kim Jong Un? The Worm. At least that’s what the digital Chosun Ilbo is reporting today: Rodman told the Miami Herald at a charity gala last Friday that he and Kim “have no plans really, as far as what we’re going to [...]

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How well do you know the two Koreas?

by on March 30, 2013 in Books, My Life That Was Korea: 1990 - ?, South Korea

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North Korea threatens nuclear strike on US

by on March 8, 2013 in My Life That Was Korea: 1990 - ?, News, South Korea

So much for Dennis Rodman’s basketball diplomacy. North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test. An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said the North will [...]

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North Korea Threatens the US

by on February 24, 2013 in My Life That Was Korea: 1990 - ?, South Korea

Again. News out of North Korea this past weekend is that the North has threatened the US with “miserable destruction” if the US and ROK military proceeds with an annual military exercise. The Norks have been all out of whack about these military exercises before (especially years ago with the annual Team Spirit exercises), but [...]

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Jin Air — Seoul to Vientiane: Thanks, but No Thanks

by on February 16, 2013 in South Korea, Travel

For travelers flying to Laos from South Korea flight options have been limited: there was the Incheon-Hanoi-Vientiane route which left Incheon in the morning and got into Vientiane early in the evening or the Incheon-Bangkok-Vientiane route, which arrived at 2:00 in the afternoon of 9:00 in the evening depending on whether one wanted a three, [...]

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Students from Technologico de Monterrey in Mexico Visit SolBridge

by on January 24, 2013 in South Korea

Thirteen bachelor students from SolBridge International School of Business’s  partner university Technologico de Monterrey in Mexico are at SolBridge for a special two-week program, “Doing Business in East Asia”. The purpose of their visit is to learn Asian economics and culture. During the program they will attend high quality lectures and take part in cultural [...]

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