#Soth Korea

[alexbkrieger13]

Do you have a favourite player from every team in the world cup? (current sqaud)

Most of them yeah (at least the countries I can remember right now off the top of my head)

Denmark: I think we all know the answer to that one

Norway: Maren (Guro and frida are close seconds)

Australia: Steph

Canada: Jessie

US: Rapinoe

Brazil: Marta

Spain: Ona (I can say that now that she's not at United)

England: Naomi (jess close 2nd)

France: Eve

Italy: Boattin

Switzerland: Lia

Soth Korea: Ji

New Zealand: Ali Riley

Japan: Maika Hamano

Germany: Lohmann

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Martial Law in Soth Korea

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President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol meets Ukrainian president in Kyiv

President of Soth Korea Yoon Suk Yeol visits Ukraine on July 15, 2023. During the meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he discussed the Peace Formula, and food and energy security, as reported by the Ukrainian president on Telegram.

“Today, President of the Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee are in Ukraine. During this visit — the first in the history of our relations — we discuss everything important for the normal and safe life of people. The return of deported adults and children, the implementation of the PeaceFormula and the preparation of the Global Peace Summit, food and energy security and economic cooperation… I am sure together we will give more strength to our nations and the global positions of Ukraine and the Republic of Korea,” Zelenskyy wrote.

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June 26, 2018: Libertas, Justitia, Veritas

안녕하세요,

It's orientation day, which meant that I was finally going to meet my group members and my buddies! The event was scheduled to start at 10:00 AM, so I was up and ready by 9:00 AM. I was in the shower when Sophie texted me to meet with her at the front of Frontier building, so I had just missed her. Nonetheless, I planned to make new friends that day - both during the orientation and at the after party when all of Group 3 meet at the barbeque place we ate at yesterday. It was a beautiful day to make friends!

Well, it was raining - heavily. The shuttle bus stopped at both CJ International and the top of the hill that leads to Frontier House, Anam Dormitory, and Anam Global, so we all had to walk up that steep road in the pouring rain - luckily, nobody slipped.

The shuttle bus dropped us off at the entrance from the dorm to the campus, just behind Inchon Memorial Hall, the location of the orientation. Oddly, the fountains in front of the building were on, even in the pouring rain.

I entered Inchon Memorial Hall and headed to the tables set up in the main hallway of the hall. In the prior years, the students had to line up based on their last names to check in, but this year was different - we just walked in and grabbed the brochures and the envelope with all the papers needed for the orientation. I suppose it's because this orientation was optional, so no check-in was needed.

I sat in the front and center of the big auditorium - seat G22. A crimson banner hung above the stage welcoming the 2018 International Summer Campus students to Korea University. The president updated the students in the auditorium that we would be starting late due to the weather to accommodate those who were running late.

The orientation started with a welcoming greeting from the president himself, introducing the school and the program to an auditorium filled with excited international students.

Then, he continued the welcoming ceremony to show a video of the invited guests who were not able to make it.

Nobody expected to see who was about to give us welcome greetings.

N.Flying, Yubin from Wonder Girls, BtoB, SHINee, iKON, and other K-Pop idols welcomed us.

Oh, my God.

Gasps echoed throughout the auditorium as everybody tried to hold in their excitement.

Choi Minho from SHINee told us to take care of our health in the scorching weather while making good memories in KU ISC while Kim Donghyuk from iKON told us to study hard and to listen to iKON when we're getting tired from our studies.

The videos are linked on the previous paragraph, but wow! I was and still am very impressed with Korea University.

A sexual assault presentation followed the welcoming greetings and then a security presentation. Group 3 still talked about the welcoming greetings even after all the presentations.

We were given a two-hour lunch break with the news that the campus tour with our buddies was cancelled due to the bad weather.

I met with the people from last night, together with their roommates and other Group 3 members. There was a total of about 16 people walking into one of the restaurants within the campus called Mom's Kitchen, just nearby Woodang Hall, drenched from the rain, looking for a table to sit. We managed to combine two tables and gather enough chairs to accommodate all of us, and we spent the whole lunch break getting to know each other. This was when all of us realized that about half of the students in the ISC program was from Singapore, since everybody we met was from Singapore. Even the Singaporeans themselves were wondering why there were so many of them in the campus. After Singaporeans, there seemed to be a huge population of Americans and Australians, followed by the Chinese and Koreans.

After the lunch break, the cheer squad entertained us for the next hour and a half with seven songs and cheers they perform during the Korea-Yonsei games, held every year in October.

Think of the UCLA-USC game, but bigger. Korea and Yonsei are the biggest rival universities in the country, and everybody tunes in every year to watch one school beat the other in five sports.

Side note: you know if someone is from Korea University because they refer to the rivalry as Korea-Yonsei, while Yonsei students refer to it as the other way.

Well, the KU cheer squad showed us songs that included the school spirit songs and "Yonsei Chicken", a song they perform to make fun of the Yonsei students. The cheer is a great example of how huge the school spirit is for the crimson, KU's official color. They even had a song chanting Korea University's motto: Libertas, Justitia, Veritas.

The orientation ended at 3:30 PM and Group 3 would not be meeting for a meal until 5 PM, so we had time to shower and get ready for another night of barbeque and soju.

We met in front of Inchon Memorial Hall and walked to the same barbeque place where the ahjumma (아줌마) was surprised to see me walk in to her restaurant again. The whole group had her restaurant booked - every single tables and chairs were taken.

I sat on the corner on a four-person table with Sophie and two other people I met during lunch - Thao and Thai.

Thai told me before the dinner that he rarely drinks, and being the enabler that I am, I wanted to get him drunk. Minki-hyung (민기형) and Carolina, from the first night's dinner, joined us where we finished five sojus and a bottle of beer (maekju/맥주), playing different Korean drinking games, such as Titanic and the soju cap game.

Titanic is played where a shot glass is placed in a beer mug. Each person takes turns pouring as much soju into the shot glass as possible without sinking the shot glass down the beer mug. The person who eventually sinks the shot glass gets to chug the entire mug.

The soju cap game is very simple and it's done with every soju bottle that's opened. The soju bottle cap has an extra piece of metal, which is twisted and flicked off. Everybody takes a turn trying to flick off the extra piece of metal from the cap and the person who successfully does can choose two people to take a shot of soju.

Needless to say, all the asians in the table went home flushing that night - basically everybody but Carolina (Brazilian) and Sophie (Austrian).

Carolina went to the restroom when we drunkenly took this picture.

I skipped out on the karaoke (noraebang/노래방) with everybody else because of how much I was flushing; so that was the end of my night.

Wednesday, June 27, 2018: I woke up and got a haircut from a nearby hair salon called I'Hair that provided me with free drinks included with the price and headed to Woodang Hall to pick up my Korea University shirt and student ID.

That afternoon was the placement exam for the Korean language classes. Those enrolled in a Korean language course were to meet in the lecture hall in the sixth floor of Woodang Hall and had to write an essay about themselves. Those who did not know hangeul, the Korean writing system, walked out and headed to their assigned rooms for the oral part of the exam. I managed to write two paragraphs and filled the exam paper halfway with my basic Korean skills. Other people wrote the Korean alphabet and lyrics from their favorite BTS songs just so they turn in a paper that was not empty.

I headed to the room assigned for my oral exam, and those who have taken it told me they were asked to read off of a paper. Easy. If they were only testing me with my reading skills, then I would do just fine.

While in line for the oral exam, I met with other Korean language students - Marcela from Mexico and Peter from New York.

It was my turn for the oral exam and I was prepared to read the sentences she had on the table out loud. I handed her my written exam, and started speaking to me in Korean.

It was then I realized that she did not know how to speak English.

"아 좋아해요! 괜찮아요!/Ah! Johahaeyo! Gwaenchanayo!” (Ah! I like it! It's good!) She skimmed through my written exam and decided that I did not need to do the reading test since I already knew hangeul.

She went through the basics in a Korean 101 textbook.

"Where are you from? How is LA? What did you do before coming to Korea? How did you get to Korea? How do you compare LA to Korea? You like the weather in LA more? Why is that? Did your family go with you? Why did they stay? How did your family react when you told them you were studying in Korea? Why did you choose Korea? Did you study the Korean language just for this summer program or something else? How long did you study it for? Did you do it by yourself or through the school?"

It was a long conversation - basically, it was just me spitting out random Korean words with bad grammar hoping she would pick up what I was trying to say.

All I needed to say was "(Unknown Korean word here) 몰라요/mollayo” (I don’t know) to end that part of the conversation. She did not mind when I didn't know the word - she looked through her list and continued to interview me using the vocabulary of the next chapter.

"미안해요/mianhaeyo” (I’m sorry), I constantly apologized every time I told her I did not know what she was asking me.

"아니요! 괜찮아요!/Aniyo! Gwaenchanayo!" (No! It’s alright!) She reassured me that I was not being punished for not knowing the proper grammar structure to answer her questions.

I left the oral exam room feeling dumb. It was not until 2 PM the next day when we find out where we're placed. I applied for Korean Beginner 1-C, so I was hoping I'd be assigned to a class not any lower than that.

In celebration, Sophie and I went to Myeongdong that night where we tried street foods and ran in and out of K-Pop stores. That night was also the South Korea World Cup game against Germany, which South Korea won 2-0, allowing Mexico to advance to compete against Brazil. Unfortunately, South Korea was already eliminated by the time they were playing the game (yeah, I don't understand either). Seoul was loud throughout the entire game and I didn't need to watch it to know when the South Korean team scored.

But the memes of South Korea and Mexico took over online by storm, which was the best thing to come out of the World Cup, in my opinion.

Thursday, June 28, 2018: It was 2 PM and my Blackboard app finally updated. I was assigned to Korean Beginner 1-I with Manuel Lim. Whatever that meant. I guess I was smarter than Beginner 1-C. That night, I met with Valentino, Florence, and Wendelyn to Hongdae and visited a raccoon cafe called Maengkun (맹쿤). Minki-hyung (민기형) took the subway with us and dropped us off at Sindang Station (신당역) where we transferred from Line 6 to Line 2, which took us to Hongdae through Hongik University Station (홍익입구역).

Maengkun (맹쿤) required us to leave all our belongings in a locker and use the slippers provided. There were three options: option A was good for only one drink for ₩8,000; option B included a drink and the entrance fee to pet the raccoons and the dogs for ₩9,000 cash; and option C is the same as option B but with credit for ₩10,000. So, bring cash to save yourself from spending the unnecessary ₩1,000!

We got our teas and watched the raccoons behind a glass, since we could not bring our drinks in. I left my drink on the table and entered - the guys taking care of the animals on the other side of the glass door double checked that we didn't have anything in our pockets and let us in to play with the dogs and raccoons. There were about five raccoons and three dogs - a corgi, a husky, and a bulldog. The raccoons were getting vicious with each other, so one of them had to be dragged out into the cage outside the play area. Some raccoons would attack the dogs sharing the same food as them and they had to be separated.

Lesson of the day: go in the day since the raccoons get tired towards the end of the night.

We left Hongdae and went to a chimaek (치맥) place, where they serve chicken (chikin/치킨) and beer (maekju/맥주) called 썬더치킨 (Sseondeo Chikin) in Anam-dong, just next to the stairs by Frontier House. We started the night with the 3 beers (maekju/맥주) and one soju special, which they mixed in a long beer container - I'm sure there's a name for it, but as I've said before, I'm not much of a beer drinker so I don't know the culture surrounding beers. Valentino even showed me how to properly pour beer into our mugs to prevent excess bubbles.

Minki-hyung (민기형) joined us later in the night and we asked him to invite one of the buddies to join us, Hyunjic (현직). Hyunjic and I were born in the same year, so we established that night that I didn't need to call him hyung (형) and use honorifics with him; although I call him Hyunjic-oppa (현직오빠) instead.

To those who don't know Korean honorifics, a guy refers to another guy older than him as hyung (형), while a girl refers to a guy older than her as oppa (오빠); but in modern Korean culture, oppa (오빠) carries the same sexualized meaning as "daddy" in English; so Valentino and I liberally use oppa (오빠) to any Korean guys we're friends with.

We spent the rest of the night teaching Minki-hyung 민기형) and Hyunjic-oppa (현직오빠) California slangs like "hella" and the differences between "bro" and "bruh".

We took this picture before Hyunjic-oppa (현직오빠) stopped by.

I'm having a great time here in South Korea, although I still haven't found the time (and the weather honestly) to tour around Seoul. Maybe, this week I'd get the chance to. It's been raining all week so I find it useless to visit the temples and palaces when I could not even take pictures in front of them. Until then!

고마워요, Chris 「크리스」

[caitlinyardley]

Seoul, South Korea

October 2016

[mmmm12sstuff]

“From  the well bottom of Quinta da Regaleira Sintra, Portugal”

“The golden hour, Seoul soth Korea”

“Parthénon, Grèce”

[ardor-mohr]

I mean the coronavirus is very serious, we can't underestimate it, but we have to remember that it's a fraction, small fraction of major crisis, that are coming along. They may not disrupt life to the extent, that the coronavirus does today, but they will disrupt life to the point of making the species unsurvivable and not in the very distant future. So we have many problems to deal with, well, immediate ones, coronavirus is serious, has to be dealt with and much larger ones, vastly larger ones, they're looming. Now, there is the civilizational crisis, we have to time possibly good side of the coronavirus, as it may, might bring people to think about what kind of a world do we want? Do we want the kind of world that leads to this? We should think about the origins of this crisis, why is there a coronavirus crisis?

It's a colossal market failure, it goes right back to the essence of markets, exacerbated by the neoliberal, savage, neoliberal intensification of deep social economic problems. It was known for a long time, that pandemics are very likely and it was understood, very well understood, that there likely to be coronavirus pandemic slight modifications of the SARS epidemic, 15 years ago it was overcome, the viruses were identified, sequenced, vaccines were available, labs around the world, could be working right then on developing protection for potential coronavirus pandemics. Why didn't they do it? The market signals were wrong. The drug companies, we have handed over our fate to private tyrannies, hold corporations, which are unaccountable to the public, in this case, big Pharma and for them they make new body creams, it's more profitable, than that of finding a vaccine that will protect people from total destruction. 

. . . [T]his coronavirus epidemic could have been prevented, the information was there to be read, in fact it was well known in October 2019, just before the outbreak. There was a large scale simulation, by level simulation, in the United States, in the world of the possible pandemic of this kind. Nothing was done, now the crisis was then made worse by the treachery of the political systems. We did't pay attention to the information that they were aware of, on December 31st, China informed the World Health Organisation of pneumonia, like symptoms with unknown etiology. A week later, they identified, some Chinese scientists, identified it as a coronavirus, furthermore they sequenced it and gave the information to the world, by then virologists, others who were bothering to read World Health Organization report knew, that they were coronavirus and they knew how to deal with it. Did they do anything, well yes, some did. The countries in the area, China, Soth Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, began to do something and they have sort of pretty much it seems contained, at least the first surge of crisis. 

. . . [B]ut the point is that it started with it, again, a colossal market failure by pointing to fundamental problems the social economic order, made much worse by the neoliberal plague and it continues, because of the collapse of the kinds of institutional structures, that could deal with it, if they were functioning.

These are topics that we ought to be thinking about seriously and thinking in more depth about, as I said, what kind of world do we want to live in? If we overcome somehow, there will be options. The options range from the installation of highly authoritarian brutal States all the way over to radical reconstruction to society and more humane terms, concerned with human needs or private profit.

[jstevh]

Realized watching Korean pop stars online in South Korea versus here, there is a BIG difference with radio interviews.

So like here in US, they interview and--chat is it. The promotion is JUST talking really.

But in Soth Korea they also sing! And dawns on me--Korean artists get a LOT more practice at their craft in public.

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People with travel history to Italy, South Korea need ‘negative’ COVID-19 certificate to enter India

In addition to visa restrictions, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stated that people travelling from or having visited Italy and South Korea will now have to submit certificate of having tested negative for COVID-19 by the health authorities from laboratories at designated labs in their countries.

This measure came into effect from March 10 and is a temporary measure until…

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South Korea's Cardinal will go with Pope to North Korea

South Korea’s Cardinal will go with Pope to North Korea

South Korea’s Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung says he would greatly welcome a visit from Pope Francis to North Korea and would be willing to accompany him during his trip.

Yeom, who is the archbishop of Seoul, also serves as the acting chief of North Korea’s Pyongyang Diocese.

According to Lee Hae-chan, the chief of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), Yeom made the comment during a meeting where they…

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Place: Seoul, South Korea

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Let's Get Some Seoul | South Korea Part 1 |

Let’s Get Some Seoul | South Korea Part 1 |

Seoul to me feels so alive in its own existence. It is a city alive within itself, creating its own magic, celebrating its own heritage. It is a place truly unlike any other. The first day we went to see the opening of the palace gates ceremony at Gyeongbokgung Palace. This was by far my favorite part of the trip, seeing such a historical ceremony right before my eyes.  Created in 1395, the…