SeoulPodcast #35: New Year’s Eve Bash LIVE!
Podcast January 1st, 2009
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Welcome to our first live show on the Internet! We taped this live with a chat room audience starting at around 11 p.m. Seoul time on December 31st, 2008. It was so fun that I think we’ll do these live shows more often.
This show, in order to get it out for folks who want to listen to it quickly, is coming out pretty much raw, like the Christmas episode. Next week we’ll have more of those wonderful squeaky clean polished produced SeoulPodcasts that you demand.
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2008…
PANELISTS
Regina Walton (Where the Hell Am I?)
Aaron Shearin
MAIN TOPIC
Nathan’s (Korea Beat) Top Fifteen 2008 Stories (Korea Herald)
Michael Hurt’s Top Five 2008 Stories
Brian’s Top Fifteen 2008 Stories (Korea Herald)
Marmot’s Top Fifteen 2008 Stories (Korea Herald)
(just a note to our listeners that we are safe from this disaster)
Podango Won’t Make It to 2009 and Neither Will Your Data
NEWS AND STUFF
Activists: Too Many Sex Criminals Avoiding Prison
Two Korean Internet Portal Giants Prosecuted for Aiding Copyright Infringement
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?
“Star King,” Kang Ho-dong, sued for having a tightrope-walking dog.
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So a Bundang hagwon is advertising itself as the State Univeresity of New York?
Korean English Teacher Writes Novel of the ESL Classroom
…complaining that she’s not allowed to hit her students
Torgodevil’s apt response to the “beat them all to hell” 6th grade teacher novel
Korean Holiday Custom: Never an empty wallet
The very definition of cognitive dissonance. . .
Great Engrish in a classy Spanish restaurant
EXPAT COMMUNITY
Cat and David from SeoulLife.net have officially left Korea.
Korea Opens Door to English Teachers from India, Philippines, Etc.
Requirements will be much stricter for the “non-native” speakers, however – they’ll need a degree in English and teaching licenses.
All Foreigners to Be Fingerprinted from 2010
TIME WASTERS OF THE WEEK
What all the kids are hoping to see in their stockings this Christmas
Korean Think-Tank Traces Every Single Thing Wrong With Korea to Japan
Particularly like the problem-solving flow chart
Dokdo Shoe
PLUGS
Buy Us a Beer
GoToMyPC
Ex-Pat Living (The Korea Herald)
ESL Planet Recruiting
SEOUL Magazine
ZenKimchi.com
KOTESOL
MUSIC
Main Theme — Ben McPherson – “2wksnyc”
JayB-Productions (Suriama)
Ben McPherson
Byron Scullin
hairclub fo men
Bit Rationale
January 1st, 2009 at 3:06 am
Awesome! I managed to get the chance to listen to it live. My fiance was quite curious, so I logged in, and we had some drinks while listening to y’all. It was a little difficult for her (korean), but thanks for giving us something to listen to!
January 1st, 2009 at 3:22 am
AWESOME!!! Happy New Year, Ian!
January 1st, 2009 at 4:49 am
Glad you liked it, HNY!
January 1st, 2009 at 5:51 pm
[...] UPDATE: It was a great show. You can download it here. [...]
January 13th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Re: cellphones. Only temporary/disposable cellphone option in the US is Metro PCS. You can supply your own cellphone (many US models will work so hit up your friend for their old ones) or buy one from them ($80 to $200, but if you buy the phone, first month is free) and you pay monthly with no contracts. It’ll cost you around $40 for a fairly decent plan. Unlimited talk time on all plans I think. They also sell a reloadable phone card. It’s 3 cents a minute for a call to Korea.