SeoulPodcast #21: The All Jen Show
Podcast September 22nd, 2008
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The Korean Physicians Assocation:
Western medicine — BAD!
Antibiotics — GOOD!
NEWS AND STUFF
War on Prostitution Goes National (Marmot)
Jangan-dong Pimps: “We Hate Renters’ Associations” (KB)
Ugh, that’s horrible. (B in J)
A man was found ELEVEN MONTHS after hanging himself.
Posting suicide aftermath photos?
Ouch: The Falling Won (American in Geoje)
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?
Thanks to technology, holiday highway traffic jams are gone! (TechnoKimchi)
Korean paper actually says kimchi can cause cancer
“In truth the phrase ‘Korean Wave’ must disappear. It has such a nationalist tint to it and it’s no different from sticking the Korean flag on your chest and fighting.” JYP warned. “In the Beijing Olympics even if there are catcalls, if the archers shoot well they win the gold medal, but with music and other cultural products if Chinese people start booing Korea and stop buying you fail.” He cited the Jews as a role model that we should follow. There are always Jews behind all the world’s industries, but they never state in the world market that the products they made are Israeli (이스라엘 것).”
We’ve been Googled!
Web 2.0 Asia blogger Chang-Won Kim – CEO of a company (TNC – Tatter and Company) that was just bought by Google
EXPAT COMMUNITY
Roboseyo: So, Roboseyo, what is a 제사?
Roboseyo performs a jeisa for his mother.
I get the best things in the mail (A Geek in Korea)
When English Teachers Feel Racial Discrimination
New press release from our friends at Seoul.com justifying Korean-style racism. Entertaining read. Read the comment section on Korea Beat. Particularly like Pohang’s comment.
TIME WASTERS OF THE WEEK
Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay
PLUGS
Contest
Survey
**Donations**
Ex-Pat Living (The Korea Herald)
SEOUL Magazine
ZenKimchi.com
KOTESOL
Bomb English
Fatman Seoul
NEXT WEEK
Topic: Derek’s Midnight Runner
Panelist: Derek (The Midnight Runner Korea Podcast)
MUSIC CREDITS
Main Theme — Ben McPherson - “2wksnyc”
News — satya - “Silk Route Album Mix”
Things That Make You Go Whaa? — cjacks - “Candyland”
ExPat Community — Deyo - “Retro90210fun”
Time Wasters of the Week — EV Boys - “Kickin’ It in Geumchon”
Job of the Week — Bit Rationale - “Orthodox Pleasure”
Blue Valentine
Circle in a Square
David Gielan
Scottish Guitar Quartet
V__R_4_3vA
STEVE RED BAND
Deyo
Frenz
Outside
Victor Stellar
Tripudio
Robin Stine
Jeremiah Fleming
Michael Slupczynski
Uma Floresta
Kathy Reynolds
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Oh that smell, that evil smell…..
Joe I’m surprised you haven’t smelt that smell before in Korea. I first came to Korea in 2000 and one of the first things I was told was how anti-drug Korea is. But in my first week in Korea I was walking to work and smelled that sweet smell on the street. My first thought was, “Wow, Korea is cool!” However, what we have smelled might not be what we think it is.
A traditional Korean remedy for driving mosquitoes out of a residence is to burn ginko leaves. It produces an odor that is very very similar to marijuana. Now when I smell that distinct odor in Korea my first thought is not that someone is smoking up but that someone is trying to drive the gnats and bugs out of their house.
Here’s an interesting urban legend that I have heard but have never had confirmed. Korean witch doctors/shamans are legally allowed to smoke marijuana. If this is true, then maybe that might be what we are smelling. Anyone else out there heard of this?
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
And if it is true, how do I get a license to be a Korean shaman?
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
You know what I’ve always wondered about? The two Jennifers live in Korea and have “Korean” last names, but aren’t Korean. Really makes you think.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
oh, my last name sure ain’t Korean!
But I hope at least having me appear on the same podcast with the other Jen has forever demolished the rumor that we are one and the same . . .although I suppose the one that I’m her doppelganger will live on.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I thought the Jens were Young and Lee.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
nope, Jen Young hosts with Joe, Jen Lee is another blogger entirely, and as for me
“Jennifer” is my surname, and “Evil” is my Christian name. Hope that clears things up.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Joe. Do you really call your girlfriend “jagii” and not just privately but on podcast for all to hear? That is just so… girly. But I suppose that goes well your reportedly womanly figure.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I’m man enough to call my girlfriend anything I feel like and not care what anyone thinks.
Do I really look womanly?