Impressive photo of South Korean Army

Saw this from Time Magazine. I guess this is the South Korean Special Army soldiers demonstrating their martial arts skills during a rehearsal for the 61st anniversary of Armed Forces Day at Gyeryong military headquarters.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1927323_1957148,00.html#ixzz0WChsDQVb

Busan lights up the air over Gwangali in the 2009 Fireworks Festival

A beautiful gallery of photos of the 2009 Busan (Gwangali) Fireworks festival is here on Naver.com

Sometimes the city is spelled “Pusan” with a “P” and so if you want to look up more photos, video and other details about the Busan (aka Pusan) Fireworks Festival, you may need to type in “Pusan” with a “p,” just fyi.  Nevertheless, this show was one of the most AMAZING shows you’ll ever get to witness.  They did it up quite well here in Busan and it seems to get better each year.

Following are some great photos taken by John Bernardi and also a link to the actual show on Youtube.  It was impressive…

Mantis shrimp – this is kewl…

Just saw this on Yahoo News images. Just thought it was too cool (or what kids these days sometimes say is “kewl”) to not post.

Enjoy!

My blog’s feeling like a slumdog, but milk does a blog good

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Raw Milk

Just a week ago, I was blogging about how the Slumdog Millionaire was literally driving crazy traffic to my blog.  However, the traffic dropped heavily due to Google’s randomizing of their positioning of the Images used in their Google Images division/product.  For a good week+, I was number 2 for phrases like “slumdog millionaire”, but as soon as google decided to rip it out of my search traffic clutches, I shot down a thousand views down to close to what I was averaging before all the crazy traffic.

Despite the drop, I did still manage to break a weekly record due to some of residual effects of the traffic. 

1.11 Kgs and the HP Mini 1001 is a cheap laptop dream

While I haven’t bought it yet, I’m definitely a click away from so…

Just saw the HP Mini 1001 yesterday when our “computer guy” brought one in.  The notebook is literally almost as light as a thick ringed notebook and easily tuck’able under your arm.  You can throw it in your backpack with ease and probably do a bit of work on the subway to work or pop it out almost anywhere.

Janet Jackson’s going to have some competition soon possibly Han Sungjoo

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Do you remember the exposed breast incident in 2004 during the Super Bowl XXXVIII where Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson were singing together and WHAM, Jackson’s right breast was exposed to 140 million viewers?
Well, I couldn’t help think about the incident when I again get lured into the middle of one of Korea’s main search sites by a somewhat revealing photo of Han Sungjoo.  I honestly don’t know the gal that well.  The post was definitely something about how she was chosen as one of the best dressers and potentially got some accolades at a recent Korean broadcasting awards show, but it was clear this guy was pointing out how the Korean entertainment star seems to like to expose most of her breasts in the photos.  Rather, she wears very revealing dresses where they expose a majority of her breasts — well at least a majority of her left breast (maybe she wants to complement Jackson’s right breast?).  I wouldn’t be surprised if one day she decides to basically expose herself like Jackson. 

Porcupine vs. Dog: There’s only one loser – crazy porcupine quills in a dog images

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One of the most popular posts on this blog is one about a dog with a large number of porcupine quills in it’s face.  In honor of the post, I thought I would follow up with this post which shows a gallery full of the pictures of what will happen to a dog if it messes with a porcupine:

Porcupine revenge

Don’t bark at a porcupine

Quills in the mouth

Quills in tongue

Porcupine attack

Huge Quills

Not the focus of the blog, but Korean women and Korean girls continue to dominate the traffic

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Lee Hyori

More than 50% of the time when looking at the top Korean websites like Naver.com and Daum.net, you will see some image of a top Korean female model.  As stated before in previous posts, Korean women dress in a tantalizing manner.  So, unless I’m totally devoid of my natural desires of a man, I can’t help but notice.  Today, it happened again and my theory of Korean women being the sexiest dressers just continues to be buttressed.

My main coworker is freezing these days just like me.  However, she is even colder because on most days, she’ll wear skirts to work regularly.  Across the Korean peninsula, you see this constantly: Korean women still wear skirts in the most freezing temperatures.  It never made sense to me from a comfort standpoint, but at the same time, the simple fact they wear high heels despite all the discomfort falls helps me understand a bit more, I guess… 

Watching the 2009 first sunrise from a warm & cozy place

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It’s a tradition for many to stay up late on the last day of 2008 to watch the first sunrise of the New Year on the beaches in Busan.  On top of the exhaustion it would of created, it was colder than normal this time of year and many stayed home due to the weather.  However, thanks to the power of the Internet and some person who decided to record the video of it, here you go…now we can all see it (and again, and again…)

Massive numbers of Korean Women making Korea’s famous dish: Kimchi

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Volunteers make kimchi, traditional pungent vegetable, to donate to needy neighbors for winter preparation in front of the Seoul City Hall Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. About 2,200 housewives made 130 tons (117 metric tons) of kimchi. Made with cabbage, other vegetables and chili sauce, kimchi is the most popular traditional food in Korea.

Found this off the interesting images feature of Yahoo!  This is very germane to people living and working here in Korea — thus, the post.

A little more about Kimchi from our friends at Wikipedia: “Kimchi, also spelled gimchi or kimchee, is a traditional Korean fermented dish made of vegetables with varied seasonings, most commonly referring to the spicy baechu variety. Kimchi is the most common banchan, or side dish eaten at every Korean meal with rice. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and combined with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew (kimchi jjigae) and kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap).”

kimchi

There’s been a bit of debate on it’s health impacts: “Kimchi has a reputation of being a healthy food. The magazine Health named kimchi in its list of top five “World’s Healthiest Foods” for being rich in vitamins, aiding digestion, and even possibly retarding cancer growth. However, some research focused on high-sodium dietary dependence has found overconsumption of kimchi and doenjang ( hangul: 된장) to be a risk factor in gastric cancer (most likely due to nitrates and salt) while unfermented alliums and unfermented seafood were found to be protective factors. One oncological study found one type of kimchi to be a protective factor against gastric cancer while two other types of such high-sodium kimchi as dongchimi (hangul: 동치미) were risk factors.”

A Korea Movie you’ll DEFINITELY remember

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I have an eraser in my head

Get ready to gush out a cloud full of tears…this 2004 Korean Romance Film titled “Nae meorisokui jiwoogae” or directly translated into English “I have an eraser in my head” is one of the better sad love stories you’ll see.  The International title though is “A Moment to Remember.”  I’ve seen some tear jerkers from Korea, but this one definitely didn’t help my tear ducts stay full.  The first of  26 segments follows.

If you’d like to watch the rest, click on more.

Incredibly vivid and amazing photos from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

…was searching for video footage of the Beijing Summer Olympics that took place this past Friday.  However, my search has been somewhat fruitless.  It looks like there was little recorded off of t.v. or the videos haven’t floated to the top yet of search engines.  One very interesting discovery though were these images collected on Boston.comfrom the ceremonies.  These images are spectacular.  I’ve only provided 6 of them here.  For more, go to the site here.

fireworks explode over the national stadium during the opening ceremony of the beijing olympics

Artists perform around an illuminated Globe during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

olympic rings for the 2008 summer olympics in beijing

beijing opening ceremony images woman dancing

Percussionists take part in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing

Drummers perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

Just short of 600 views…

Like I said “porcupines,” “Korean women” and many others like “how to say hello (or thank you) in Korean” are dominating the traffic on the blog these days.  For a snippet of the rest of the popular posts, check out the following WordPress stats for The Real “South” Korea:

So, it seems…people on the ‘net are addicted to “Korean women”

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My recent experiment called “SEM Experiment: Are people online mostly interested about sexy Korean girls?” seems to prove that my previous post titled “Koreans are the sexiest dressers” was no fluke.  Like the obscenity case in Flordia where Google data is being proven to show that people are quite addicted online to adult material, it’s being proved here on a micro-scale.

SEM Experiment: Are people online mostly interested about sexy Korean girls?

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One of the most popular posts on my blog is one about how I rant (real briefly) about Korean women being the sexiest dressers.  For a period of time, I noticed how every younger Korean woman I saw was able to make their outfit look much sexier than needed.  At work, the computer I was using at our previous offices defaulted to Daum.net as the home page & I couldn’t help notice on the site that they tried to ring in surfers with a random sexy Korean girl pic here or there.