Ah, yes. Street food! I simply love wandering through foreign lands checking out the strange street foods available. This particular shot is taken at Konkuk University, Seoul by Gadling reader cfarivar. I love the way the steam is coming off the food and how the hard-working proprietor is just smiling away. Mmm… I can almost smell those shish-ka-bob…
Photo of the Day (4/18/07)
Recently Jaime mentioned April being National Poetry Month so when I saw this photo tucked into the Gadling Flickr pool I felt obligated to select it, but why? Well the photographer, cfarivar, has titled the shot as “Y-Men Poem” and when as I read through I am not sure how it came about, but a few other questions came to mind. Like would it be an educated guess to say that ‘Yes’ is a lingerie store of sorts? Or does this written dialogue about panties make women really want to shop there? I love the exclamation marks after it all though!!! The excitement to be found in South Korea!!!! Let’s go – Yes?
Blind Date to North Korea
Want to go on a blind date to North Korea?
Well, you’re in luck if you happen to be a single woman working for Hana Bank in South Korea. The bank offers its employees a rather attractive benefits package that includes subsidized matchmaking services.
As part of their campaign to promote a happier work place, the bank is sending 20 of its employees on a weekend getaway to romantic North Korea where they will be paired with dates from a South Korean matchmaking service.
Ahh… springtime in North Korea, when love is in the air and romance kindles the spirit. It almost brings tears to your eyes, doesn’t it?
Word for the Travel Wise (01/27/07)
It looks as though I went delving into the Korea.net site a little too late for this Ice Festival event which ultimately is a celebration for the people of Hwacheon for the abundance of mountain trout in the waters. The last day of the event is tomorrow, which makes it close to impossible for any of us to make it there, but if you’re interested in reading about the cultural festival head on over to the site anyway.
Today’s word is a Korean word used in Korea:
pakke – outside
For more vocab words found on the menu check out Korea infogate. Several more words in the Korean alphabet with excellent pronunciation guides can be found at Mr. Oh’s Learn Korean website. It’s a fun place to start to learn the basics. KBS World Radio has a three part, 30 chapter online learning guide all for free. I can’t get the Hangul text to show up, but they’ve got sound clips of all the sample conversations available. Learn Korean dot net has most of the aforementioned along with a forum to meet other speakers both fluent natives and beginners. For a list of Korean language programs in the country click here.
Past Korean words: shik-sah, sollongtang, yuh heng, mollah yo, hullyunghan, chuhwangsaege, shigan
Word for the Travel Wise (12/25/06)
Wishing all who are celebrating this Christmas holiday a very merry day. May Santa bring you everything you wish for and more!
Today we say Merry Christmas in various languages:
- Hawaiian – Mele Kalikimaka !
- Catalan – Bon Nada!
- Lithuanian – Linksmu Kaledu!
- Dutch – Gelukkig Kerstfeest!
- Persian – Krismas-e shoma mubarak!
- Spanish – Feliz Navidad!
- Swedish – God Jul!
- Korean – Sungtanul chukaheyo!
- Turkish – Neseli Noel!