Taking you back like a rocking chair.

For the next week I'll be sequestered at Suncheon's English Town for my winter camp. Following that I'll be out of the country for most of January and a big part of February, so I'll likely have no new entries for a while. However, I know that going two months without posting is blogger suicide, so I've got some posts in the can, scheduled to come out later this month and next.

To hold you over for a while I've compiled a list of some posts I like but that either came out when nobody read my blog or were buried behind bigger stories or behind the wall-to-wall Mad Bull Shit coverage. Give them a read-through, and hell, since I won't have anything new for about a week, why not just start with September, 2007, and read through every entry? *cough*

* "이번역은 율촌, 율촌역 입니다 ~ Yulchon Station." - A small write-up on an old train station in Yeosu, a post that contains the best one-liner in Brian in Jeollanam-do history.

* "GEPIK offers culture tips." You know this isn't going to turn out well.

* "Nazi mural in Gyeongju." – A not-so-subtle display in downtown Gyeongju.

* "You look nervous." - Perhaps the most awesomely bad 71 seconds of consecutive English in a Korean drama.

* "Korea Times: Tips are no longer strange here." - The one where we debate the merits of tipping. It was a short discussion because there are no merits of tipping.

* "Okay, I know I really shouldn't be laughing at this." - A taste of home.

* "A Reaction to Kang Eun-hee's 'Korean English Teachers.'" - The first of what would be many rants on the topic of English education.

* "Cheonghak-dong and Samseong-gung: Excellent with a capital E through T." - One of the most beautiful areas of Korea I've ever seen.

*“’Sexy Mong’ battles drunk foreigners, interracial relationships.” It’s bad enough that a softcore porn episode was dealing with the “social issue” of sexual predator English teachers. What’s worse is that they actually recruited some piece of shit white people to play these date rapists. Way to go, you got to rub a Korean woman’s groin on television. Now eat shit and die.

*“No hummingbirds in Jeollanam-do :(“ – No hummingbirds in Korea for that matter, but we do have some beautiful moths.

*“Remembering.” – A visit to Gwangju on May 18th, and a look at how anti-American, anti-beef displays were the theme of the anniversary of the Gwangju Massacre.

*“Cultural Guidebook for Foreigners warns of killer fans.” – Actually, LMFAO, so does the Korean Consumer Agency.

*“Foreigners Expose Abusive Daycare.” – Some English teachers helped bring to justice a preschool that was punishing its children by leaving them outside naked in the middle of winter.

*“Korea Times: What do English Teachers Think?” – Another rant brought upon by a column in the Korea Times.

*“pyew pyew pyew, the sound of bad taste.” – A distasteful Hummer commercial from a few years ago.

* "Forbes ranks South Korea as hardest-working country." - What does that mean?

* “You’re not their friend, you’re their teacher.” – Sometimes it’s difficult to leave the house, knowing how ridiculous you’re made to look as a foreigner. If you haven’t figured it out yet, when they scream “HEllo, hellloooo, HELLOOOO” they’re not being friendly, or curious, or eager to speak to foreigners.

* "Some stuff about Korean love motels, so pay attention." - I'm a big fan of love motels. Less so when people commit suicide in them, but still. They're much better than ordinary tourist hotels in every conceivable---PUN!---way. That one room has a telescope.