Katelyn and Gregory Haskins find their way through—and around—the world
Having had our fill of the North, we set off next to see a few spots in Central and Southern Vietnam: the old coastal city Hoi An, the city-formerly-known-as-Saigon Ho Chi Minh, and the river town Chau Doc near the Cambodian border.
“…Buy me some dried squid and KFC, thundersticks do the trick for LG…For it’s root, root, root like your crazy…”
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.
