Oh, this and that.

All this could have been avoided if I had just remembered my camera. Fortunately I left my camera on my desk, and didn't drop it somewhere between Suncheon and Gwangju as I originally thought. But that meant I had to rely on my cameraphone for pictures of the various events in Gwangju this weekend, and I'm having a hell of a time trying to transfer the photos from my phone to my computer. I've visited nearly a half-dozen LG stores, purchased a UB cable, downloaded two different programs, but no luck. The most recent program, "Mobile Sync II" from Club Cyon is now asking me for my phone's 비밀번호, which as far as I know doesn't exist. I didn't make one, anyway, but I bought my phone secondhand from a local LG store, and I'm going there tomorrow to see if they can help me out. I'm not leaving until they figure out the number, download and run that program, show me exactly how to get my photos, and actually take a few from the camera and put it on their computer. I figured it'd be as simple as plugging the phone into the computer, but no. Even a middle school girl can do it, right?

Anyway, I took a ton of photos with my phone at some of the memorial services commemorating the Gwangju Massacre. I was hoping to bang that lengthy write-up out tonight, but it wouldn't be very effective without pictures. It will be an interesting write-up, if I do say so myself, but without photos it would just be conjecture without proof or illustrations. Like the Korea Herald. I'm shooting for tomorrow night, then. All this could have been avoided had I just remembered my camera. It was in my hand yesterday morning when I put in the battery, but I guess my dumb ass was distracted by something else.

Speaking of distractions, I found out where you can go in Gwangju to see women in bikini-tops posing in windows in front of "singing rooms," and it's not where you'd really expect to find them. Even though I'm only 5'7" 140 *ding*, I still cut a nice figure and the women were calling me a "hero" as I walked by. At least I think that's what they said. I don't really think I should say where to find these singing rooms, because I don't want to turn that neighborhood into a tourist attraction. Even if I did want to do a little more research, it'd be impossible because Navering 유흥주점 will lead me to an age-restricted area. Actually, while running a google search on that neighborhood I didn't find any references to the sex industry---but then again my Korean sucks---but I did find a blog with a ton of neat old photos of Korea, culled from various sources (here, here, and here, with more if you browse through the page numbers at the bottom). Photos of some Jeollanam-do islands at the bottom of this page.

And on the topic of women who I find more attractive than I should probably admit, I spent a little time at the 2008 Gwangju F1 & Super Car Show on Saturday. I count it among the most surreal Korean experiences I've had. Like I said I didn't have my camera---I think I would have felt too creepy to even take pictures if I had brought it---but you can find a ton of photos via a Naver search, especially on the blogs. Both at the show and at the various 5/18 stuff I ended up in the background of a lot of photos. Sometimes I'd even turn to find somebody with a lens pointed at me. If I get some free time this week or next I'm going to have to play "Where's Waldo." But, doesn't look like there's too much online from yesterday. Anyway, the visit begged the question why hasn't Korea discovered strapless bras? why can't I get my wife and kids to come with me while I look at hot women?


Hahaha, there was a lot of that going on.


Okay, I took a couple of pictures, this one for example.

And because I'll probably never have an opportunity to use this again, you're getting this link now. Boryeong's Ajou Motor College, where you can go to school to learn how to be a racing girl. Actually, I found that link about a year ago, and from what I can tell that program is no longer offered. :( At the car show there was a section of stuff done by students at Chunnam Techno College, and though the school brochures had racing girls, it doesn't look like the school offers such a course. But they do offer programs in fields like E-Sports, Modelling, Car Audio, and Taekwondo, making these students about 89% more interesting than most college-age people I've endured.