My homepage at school is Yahoo Korea, which links to the English-language Inside Korea page and thus displays cringe-worthy headlines like that all the time. Inside Korea, in turn, posts news from The Korea Times, the official website of South Korea Korea.net, and the official tourism website "Korea Sparkling." It all gets to be a bit much, but sometimes I just can't help myself. If you can direct me to a tourism homepage that operates on understatement, I'll eat my hat.
Inside Korea also carries job ads from Worknplay, one of the big recruiters here. I pooped my pants a little at this one:
Voice recording and translation- Turkey person
Conditions
- Native Turkey person
Projects
1. Translation
- translate English(Korean) into Terkey language.
2. Voice recording
- Native Turkey female
Location
- Yeoido
Kim Hyuck
017 237 8107
010 6211 1269
dgkkim@empal.com
ps) Hurry up please.
If you act quickly you can secure one of the many positions on "Korea's Hawaii." There's also an article about Seoul bus tours that aim to "present better picture of Korea." You know, by encouraging Koreans to go on the tours to practice their English on the unsuspecting foreigners.
But the page is strong in other areas, and does present some interesting tourism information. For example, there's an informative article on some drama sets. And, take some time to browse the "Learning Korean" section. The intermediate level has 30 lessons on tourist sites in Korea, each lesson with a reading, listening, and vocabulary portion. It's probably more a high-beginner level, but it's right up my alley. The units even have "activities." Ac-ti . . . vi-ties? Wow, thus far I haven't had much experience in a language course that didn't center around some blow-hard talking 85% of the time.
The monthly journal Korea is also worth a quick look-through. This month there's a little write-up about Suncheon. There's another free journal, Korea Policy Review, with more of the same. In the latest issue, from July, there's stuff about Korean-language education in Central Asia, the Korean Wave in Iran, Seoul flea markets, even more about the Korean Wave, and other stuff probably ghost-written by Roboseyo.
6 comments:
To apply for Turkey person job:
Please include Passport size personal photo with application.
http://www.comixconnection.com/uploaded_images/mr-bean-cooking-turkey-782988.jpg
In the Korea.net article (like pretty much every reference to "seaweed" in Korea) they use the term "dried laver" which remains totally outside the vocabulary of every English-speaking person who is not trying to market seaweed to westerners.
I'm crying looking at that picture!! I just want to apply with three pages of "gobble, gobble."
Someone needs to send them a turkey.
In Namsan tower there is some dick selling "Turkey icecream". I wrote on a card that he should change it to "Turkish icecream." A month later and no change--I guess he just didn't give a fuck. I am going to start wearing Korean shirts with terrible misspellings.
The reference to Jeju as "Korea's Hawaii" is a joke. How about "Korea's Shetland island"
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