Katelyn and Gregory Haskins find their way through—and around—the world
It seems almost like a dream now, but nearly a month ago my parents and Nick traversed the Pacific and met us for a whirlwind tour of Beijing (and Shanghai) and Seoul. Having not seen them for 8 months, you can imagine my mom was looking forward to this trip even more than we were—and her Hilton points provided us with awkwardly luxurious accommodation throughout.
Since our last post in this series (see parts one, two, and three), there has been an almost complete turnover in radio hits here in Korea. It seems success is just as fleeting here as anywhere else. Never fear, though, K-Pop lives on with newer, ungrammatical-er, techno-y-er, and annoying-er songs than ever before!
I’ll admit that things are much more liberal here below the 38th parallel, but it looks like South Korea may be taking a few cues from its northern neighbor when it comes to free speech. We wrote previously about the blogger who was arrested for speaking his mind on the financial crisis, but now it looks like Korean Internet regulations are forcing even the mighty Google to bend it’s “Don’t be Evil” motto.
Our friend Geraldine is applying for an internship at STA Travel and she needs everybody to see her application video to get the most views and a chance at an interview. Watch it, it’s really great!
We had a good laugh the other day over an article in Wednesday’s Korea Herald (“Welcome to the 22nd century!”, mirrored here because their site is dangerous, and yes, that’s really the headline). It’s an op-ed where they author lays out the case that Korean society has advanced beyond other developed nations.
