Kimbop

Kimbop is my new favorite food. It is always made with two things. Kim. And bop. Kim is dried and seasoned seaweed. Bop is the Korean word for rice.

This here is from my favorite kimbop joint. It's chamchi kimbop. Or tuna kimbop. If you take a look you can see all kinds of stuff. Tuna, carrots, egg, ham, mayo. All this stuff, for 2 bucks.

Great Videos

If you're one of my friends back home,and you're wondering what it's like in Korea, you should watch this. If you're one of my Korean friends, you should watch this to see what Korea is like from the point of view of a foreigner.

What Did You Do This Weekend

So I asked my students what they did over the weekend, and I got an answer from a student that you will never hear back in Farwell.

The student, one of my favorites was telling me that she saw her grandmother over the weekend and had some very yummy food. So I asked her what it was and she said something in Korean that I didn't understand. Then about half the class gasped and said, "DOG!!!" One of the better English speakers let me know that the food this girl had that was so delicious was, in fact, dog.

So to answer your question, yes some Koreans do eat dog. But when they want to eat dog, they eat dog. You don't get an unsuspecting chunk of dog meat with your rice. You get dog if you want it.

Cultural differences are weird aren't they? IF you're interested you can read more about this on wikipedia.

From Chai to Anguk

Some photos I just took on my walk from Chai to Anguk Subway Station.




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Museum Time!

I went to the National Museum of Korea this past Sunday with my new friend, Richard. It was the " Egypt-Oriental Collection" from Kunsthistorisches Museum of Austria. According to a website, "it covers 300 years of Egyptian civilization. Mummies and objects related to pharaohs, images of deities, amulets, makeup tools, hieroglyphic papyri, diverse tools and receptacles, as well as burial goods, will be on display."

So yeah, I saw a mummy. And the wrapping was off of it's nose, so I saw the shriveled up nose of a mummy. That's pretty cool in my book.

Well no pictures were allowed inside the exhibition, but Richard took some out side of the museum and exhibition area.

Laugh if you will at my "murse" or "man purse" but that's they way a modern sophisticated gentleman like myself or Richard rolls. Where else will you keep the following items: a map of Seoul, gum, a book for pleasure reading, a book for studying Korean, something to drink, an umbrella (acid rain over here, ya know), a cell phone, your iPod, some Tylenol (just in case), and a candy bar (also, just in case)? Your murse is where you'll carry these things.

Here are some pictures that either Richard or the lady from the museum took.