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In Korea, today is Children’s Day. In other parts of the world, it’s Cinco de Mayo. Oh, how I would love a bowl of guacamole and a margarita right now. After my jaunt to Seoul on Saturday for pre-Buddha’s birthday celebrations, I debated going again on Sunday because the weather looked like crap. I’m a [...]

Joe has compiled a list of the posted working conditions from various Korean universities.  Most of my friends also work at universities, so it’s interesting to see what other places are offering. How to read the listing: Chinju National University of Education 16 hrs/wk, 2.3 MA/2.0 BA, housing: provided—furnished, vacation: paid summer/winter It means:  16 [...]

I’ve been reading the Metropolitician for about a month now, having been turned onto the blog through his SeoulGlow video podcasts.  The other night, I was browsing through the archives and came upon a really interesting post from January.  He thoroughly discussed the rights of photographers in Korea.  Specifically: Can you take a picture of [...]

I’m getting around to reading some of the other articles in this month’s Time magazine. There are some short articles about how people are using the web, in conjunction with the Person of the Year article. Ali Khurshid from Pakistan is profiled about his use of Flickr. Check out his photos – they’re really some [...]

The Lao Cook recently starting posting cooking videos. The videos are short, informative, and makes cooking look easy. Still, I doubt I’ll be making Sushi Maki anytime soon. Check them out. Plus, see what they plan on doing with this shark! Yikes!  By the way, if you’re curious, you can hear what the Lao language [...]

There’s a great discussion going on at Javajive about how much one should manipulate a photo in Photoshop. Check it out. Brandon’s observation to a comment I made: Lao-Ocean – An interesting fact about dSLR photography is that quite often an image taken with a point and shoot will actually come out to be more [...]

This is Kim Joo-won, a world renowned ballerina. These are her feet.  [Links via The Marmot's Hole]

Ever wonder what Lao food looks like?  Or how to make it?  Check out laocuisine.net (picture of green papaya salad is from that site).  Another place is Thai and Lao Food Blog.  Both have lots of pictures and recipes, while the latter also provides videos to help you cook your dish. If you’re still hungry, [...]

Three friends spend three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing disposable cameras to two types of groups, migrants trying to cross into the States, and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them.  [http://www.borderfilmproject.com] On this site, they say that most migrants had never seen or used disposable cameras before, so there were instructions [...]