The BBC Fast Track program did a good segment on the popularity of Korean Dramas and Pop Music overseas, which helps to explain things a bit better than I might havehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/f ast_track/9633298.stmI also found out about this film set with a fake north korean border you can visit which I want to gotohttp://blog.korea.net/?p=5738

Sunday was the muslim religious holiday of Eid. I was glad it was a sunday as dates are based on moon sightings and not fixed, so they change every year. My last three eids in korea (there are two per year) fell on weekdays so I wasnt able to take time off to pray. With so many cancelled classes it doesnt look good if I ask for time off the day we do have classes. Also I dont live anywhere near the mosque so it would be a half day trip.I heard prayers in the Seou...

This weekend was the closing weekend of the Haeinsa Millennial Tripitaka celebrating 1000 years of the ancient Haeinsa printing tablets. I asked some friends to come but everyone bailed, same as my trip to Haeinsa last year, hence, the curse of Haeinsa!When I got to the Seobu bus terminal the ticket was 6600w ($6) as I seem to remember it being cheaper. The bus was leaving at 10.40 and it was already time so I jumped on board. The bus was already full to standing...

Another friday class was so rowdy and out of control. I basically couldnt teach the lesson. I had to tell one boy to go outside the classroom. I named him 'jumbo' as he is double the size of all the grade 1 students. This class has progressively got worser each week and the co-teacher wasnt present in class as they were supposed to be.With 15 mins left of class and unable to conduct the lesson I had to think of what can I do to bring them under order. I dismissed...

Wednesday nobody told me all classes were cancelled. My lesson 1 didnt show up. Lesson 2 the wrong class showed up and the teacher said I didnt have to teach a lesson. After lunch everybody went to the movie theatre to watch a korean movie. Luckily I had my camera with me as I was going to take pictures of the bad kids cleaning.Everyone got free bags of popcorns. Many of the students who already had bags went to the counter and took handfuls from the other bags r...