The Soundtrack of our Lives: Part 3
And then there is this…..
Posts from October, 2008
The Soundtrack of our Lives: Girl Band Edition
I think it’s about time for a follow-up to our previous entry on the Korean music scene. We just can’t get away from the K-pop, and we thought if it’s driving us crazy, it should drive you crazy too.
Seoraksan
Clearly, Greg and I have been playing catch-up on these blog posts so as promised, here is one on our recent trip to Seoraksan. Greg’s birthday was a few weekends ago and it happily coincided with another national holiday ( something like Memorial day, I think). We had been to Seoul and a few few places around Gyeonggi-do, but we decided to take our last few dollars and the opportunity of a long weekend and to venture a little further in to South Korea.
Stop motion fun
A couple weekends ago, we made a trip out to Seoraksan by bus. We’re going to post a more thorough account of that trip soon, but one side effect of traveling on a national holiday is the delays caused by the massive crowds of people everywhere. So, when we were ready to head home, the next available bus didn’t leave for 2 hours. Needless to say, we had a bit of time to kill.
P.S.
As as follow-up to my previous post, I’ve compiled a list of various media sources on South Korea which I think express the nature of our situation here in a more concise way. First is a video about the education system. It describes the environment here well– pretty much everything you see in the video we have seen here ( aside from the sections on tongue surgery). Unfortunately, the video has no English subtitles, but the English narration is interesting.
