Comments on: SeoulPodcast #58: Jet Set

By: Mike Yates

Mike Yates — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:37:54 +0000

Thanks for the mention Stafford.. I’m not that bad am I

The only thing that makes me mad are those other people. I’m usually quite nice!

By: Have You Slapped a Foreigner Today? | ZenKimchi

Have You Slapped a Foreigner Today? | ZenKimchi — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:18:19 +0000

[...] you may have missed on chance. The guys from Jet Set Zero, fresh from their appearance on the SeoulPodcast, headed to Myeong-dong with a sign in Korean and English saying, “Foreigner. Slap [...]

By: karl

karl — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:44:14 +0000

The thing about the construction company. A North American corporation would have taken lemons and made lemonade. The corporation could have stood behind her memory, made a name for itself in the world of corporate good will, maybe set up a scholarship in honor of her for other abused women. You know? I think a western company would have wrapped itself in the flag of being a good corporate citizen and championing a cause. It could have played off a “Behind beauty is strength” theme. You know, they make good buildings but underneath they’re strong and they’ll do the right thing blah blah.

By: Baltimoron

Baltimoron — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:50:32 +0000

The “toy men” sequence reminded me of “Runaway” on Quantum Leap (http://www.finifter.com/quantum-leap/information/episode-guide/season-3.html#runaway), where Sam has to stop a woman of two from divorcing her rock of a husband. These girly men are only an improvement if one remembers that yangban culture had a serious mother-slut problem: men left the wife with Mom and often didn’t even return home. Showing any concern for one’s wife is still considered sentimental and weak. If a woman doesn’t walk paces behind the man or wait on him hand and foot, it makes him look bad. Mothers are more likely to give up bus seats to their sons than have them sit on laps, as do wives often with their husbands. Perhaps it’s better to do this gradually with movies than by the shock of the Pill, as happened in the US.

Still, I’m surprised it’s not more common, because of the mandatory military service. I still get in my moods to shine my shoes. I cook on weekends, too! I taught my wife how to make western food. Even my grandfather, a former Marine, insisted on making his own lunch, to honor the times he had to stand in a picket line for soup and bread. Of course, he hunted and spent most of his free time in the woods. My mother also taught my sister and I both to cook and wash our clothing early, because she appreciated the help. Gawd, Korean men are just Mommy-suckling pansies!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:04:35 +0000

Search for “SeoulPodcast” in Facebook. That should work.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:01:19 +0000

love you guys out of chicago. makes me wish i was back out there. tried to find you on facebook but didn’t see you. how do i add you?

By: karl

karl — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:54:57 +0000

The “we are vampires”. Jesus. Transport that article to Canada and change the professors to African lecturers and watch the out cry. Really. Hell, write it about all the Korean grad students in Canadian universities and link it to the Cho shooting. The publication that would let such yellow trash pass its filter would lose every advertiser it had. In Korea, it’s just part of the Der Sturmer level of journalism Korea aspires to when it comes to foreigners in their midst.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_St%C3%BCrmer

“In his propaganda work, Streicher furthered old myths from the middle ages, e.g. that Jews killed children, sacrificed them and drank their blood.”

And it would now seem our ESL teachers are blood drinkers too. Well done Korean journalism, finally advancing to the late 1930s in terms of style.

Korean journalism can get away with this straight up, bald faced race baiting simply because it can do it in Korean and generally won’t trigger any filters.

Your official Junior Miss Thug Life ware can be had at:

http://www.cafepress.com/ssgokorea

Thank you Jennifer for saying the price was reasonable. Full disclosure I make $5 per product (cafe press charges $14.99 and then you add in your profit margin … and I’m sure cafe press also takes a fee from your profit margin).

And I’m back in town but for those who think I’m back here for teaching, I just want to clarify I’m just on holiday. Well, that will be apparent in the In the Seoul Survivors Bag.