Katelyn and Gregory Haskins find their way through—and around—the world
It looks like our time in Korea is done (“Teacher, finish!” as our kids would say). We’ve spent nearly 365 days here and now it’s time for something new. We could be responsible and head home to start job hunting, grad school, and/or real life, but instead we are going to take our money and run. We are young and stupid and to be honest, we have never been under the delusion that we are going to live forever. So here’s what’s next:
“…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.
