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		<title>korea &#8211; day 11 &#8211; final day in korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[over a year after the last post. this concludes the korea trip recount.  it has been nearly 2 years since we&#8217;ve gone to korea.  if we ever make it back to korea, i wonder how long those posts will take me. our last day in korea was bittersweet. i was looking forward to going home [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>over a year after the last post. this concludes the korea trip recount.  it has been nearly 2 years since we&#8217;ve gone to korea.  if we ever make it back to korea, i wonder how long those posts will take me.</p>
<p>our last day in korea was bittersweet. i was looking forward to going home and relaxing a little before having to go back to work. though i love korea and of course my family (as noted in previous posts) maintaining the level of respect, etc that is required by cultural laws always prohibit me from feeling 100% at ease. i never want to offend family especially when they spent so much time showing us love.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Leaving Korea" src="http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=49782&amp;g2_serialNumber=2" alt="Leaving Korea" width="440" height="330" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">note the large box i have in the picture on the right. my uncle bought us seaweed. LOTS of it. i thought i was going to have to declare or even get taxed on some of it. thankfully not. some friends in nyc got to share in the bounty and the bulk of it went to my mom to help dispense to other aunts.</p>
<p>before leaving, joseph took the time to take pictures of the more communal areas at my aunt&#8217;s home in Bundang (a suburb of seoul about 45 minutes via bus). there are two half baths. one with a toilet, and sink, another with a shower head and sink.</p>
<p align="center"><img title="Toilet" src="http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=49739&amp;g2_serialNumber=5" alt="Toilet" width="149" height="150" /> <img title="Toilet Buttons" src="http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=49742&amp;g2_serialNumber=2" alt="Toilet Buttons" width="150" height="149" /> <img class="aligncenter" title="Dining room" src="http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=49721&amp;g2_serialNumber=2" alt="" width="150" height="149" /> <img class="aligncenter" title="Washing Room" src="http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=49751&amp;g2_serialNumber=5" alt="" width="149" height="150" /> <img class="aligncenter" title="Entrance foyer" src="http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=49760&amp;g2_serialNumber=5" alt="" width="149" height="150" /><img class="aligncenter" title="Garage" src="http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=49778&amp;g2_serialNumber=2" alt="" width="150" height="149" /></p>
<p>my aunt&#8217;s family live in a good area and are basically surrounded by a local park, so that means no more development in their specific neighborhood. one day joseph and i actually decided to walk up the park, but too bad we forgot to take pictures. maybe next time <img src='http://blog.agapeshack.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>this concludes the korea posts. definitely going out with a massive fizzle instead of a bang. if you want to see more pictures of our trip they&#8217;re here:</p>
<p>http://gallery.agapeshack.com/main.php/v/Backup/Vacations/2008_Korea/</p>
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		<title>korea &#8211; day 10 &#8211; Gumi, Kimcheon, and NamDaeMoon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in the previous korea post, I MUST FINISH THIS. After the trip to GyeongJu, we spent the night at my uncle&#8217;s home in Gumi. image removed It&#8217;s a small and modest house in what most of us would consider a very rural area. this is where my dad&#8217;s family&#8217;s land is. most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I mentioned in the previous korea post, I MUST FINISH THIS.</p>
<p>After the trip to GyeongJu, we spent the night at my uncle&#8217;s home in Gumi.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s a small and modest house in what most of us would consider a very rural area. this is where my dad&#8217;s family&#8217;s land is. most of it belongs to this particular uncle, since he was the only son to stay in korea, while the other two sons went off to the states. he built this home from &#8220;scratch&#8221;. he and his wife saved their entire lives in preparation for retirement.</p>
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<p>americans typically think of retirement as moving to florida, hanging out with other old people and going to denny&#8217;s for the senior grand slam special. koreans have a different view. my uncle and aunt spend their time farming the family land. the grow their own soybeans, and other vegetables. they do everything organically so everything is cooked simply and the flavor is amazing! they make their own soy sauce, tofu, soybean paste (dwenjang), red pepper paste (ggotchujang), and a number of other things.</p>
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<p>On basically what was our last full day in korea, my uncle gave us a tour of his home. extremely proud of what he&#8217;s been able to provide for his family, and also to show us that he&#8217;s taken care of our family land. he pointed to some of the dried greens that were hanging from the garage and said that it was my dad&#8217;s favorite vegetable. so he dries plenty of it each year hoping my dad comes for a visit. he showed us the mill he uses to grind the beans.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">before getting ready to take us to kimcheon, he wanted to show us one more thing. my dad&#8217;s best friend&#8217;s burial/memorial site and the buddhist temple the man had built and worshipped at. though my dad&#8217;s family is catholic, they were good friends with this man and also proud of his acheivements.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">i don&#8217;t know his name, but my dad showed me pictures. he was the provincial wrestling champion. but also a devout buddhist. he would go to a local cave and meditate for days without food or water. later he became a famous buddhist monk and raised money to build this temple. along with the temple he had a deep desire to serve the disabled and mentally handicapped. there is an adjacent home to the temple. we didn&#8217;t get to visit the facility so no pictures. unfortunately, my dad&#8217;s friend was murdered by one of the mentally ill. he was buried next to the temple.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">we then decided to take a quick trip to kimcheon. there&#8217;s a park there that features different types of art. including some very interesting statues like these:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">the first is joseph pretending to play a children&#8217;s game where you attempt to hop on someone&#8217;s back and play a game of rock, paper, scissors. next joseph was told to rub the buddha&#8217;s belly so we would have good luck in trying to have a baby. i proceeded to touch the belly button instead. the last two were all in good fun of course <img src='http://blog.agapeshack.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">there should be no vacation/travel posts without the gluttonous amount food consumed! we went to a pork bbq place. instead of the usual vents that are fixed on the ceiling, you could pull these vents down towards the table and then push them back up and out of the way to eat. this basically concluded our trip to the kumi area. before we left my uncle proceeded to say &#8220;i&#8217;m sorry if they did anything wrong&#8221;. after this lengthy post of the hospitality and the family love they showed, suffice to say there was NOTHING wrong that they did. in fact, joseph and i probably should&#8217;ve said what they had said instead. we intruded on their quiet lives and they welcomed us with open arms.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">my aunt and uncle put us on a high speed train back to seoul. this by itself is a treat. it&#8217;s like taking the acela instead of the regional train. time difference between the two is a few hours because there are also far fewer stops in between.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">it actually dropped us off not too far from namdaemoon. so guess were we went next?</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">this outdoor street market is HUGE. it&#8217;s a maze. i tried to be as diligent as possible to make sure we either knew where we were going, or at least know how to get back to where we came from. it&#8217;s a sea of wholesalers of all different types of stuff, of everything from clothes, socks, bras, pots, knives, computers&#8230;.you name it, they probably have it. apparently there are alot of tourist from china and japan looking for korean ginseng. all the sales people kept yelling at me and joseph in cantonese, mandarin, taiwanese, japanese and korean &#8211; unsure whether we were one or another.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">lastly, the last nite of being in korea meant that we finally got to spend some time with my cousin. usually he&#8217;s the one i spend most of my time with when i&#8217;m in korea. but this trip was obviously different. he&#8217;s also far busier now, running the furniture company that my uncle built. it used to be living room, bedroom and dining room furniture company. my cousin decided to change the direction of the company based on his research and noticing the fair share of furniture companies in asia. it was a smart investment and business strategy for him. the new direction was to build wardrobes for apartments. much like in the US, the real estate market BOOMED all over asia, with new buildings and renovations happening all over. guess who was building new wardrobes through many of korea&#8217;s new/remodeled homes?</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">we ended up starting at a chicken place. like i said before, joseph was so smitten with kyochon, we looked for every opportunity to eat more of that kind of chicken. my cousin ended up taking us to this place where one of the owners looked like my aunt #6. we had some beer and chicken and caught up. instead of staying after we finished eating though, we headed off to a second place. some japanese place to eat more food and drink some more. by this time we get to this second place, i&#8217;m already a little tipsy, on the verge of drunk.  i don&#8217;t think joseph was, though he did get quiet and looked very happy with a huge grin on his face. this is probably why there aren&#8217;t many pictures of our time spent with my cousin. man koreans can drink.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some people have asked how my pregnancy has been going. Well, it&#8217;s been going. It&#8217;s been both great and very bad at times. Here I&#8217;ll share mainly about my first trimester.</p>
<p>Joseph and I figured out around the annual Vision retreat that I might be pregnant. I&#8217;m fairly regular, but my period hadn&#8217;t come when it was supposed to. So once we got back home, we went to the pharmacy and got some tests. <a title="Duane Reade" href="http://hosive.agapeshack.com/2008/11/28/the-magical-fall-trip-to-duane-reade/" target="_blank">joseph</a> shared about the experience <a title="Duane Reade" href="http://hosive.agapeshack.com/2008/11/28/the-magical-fall-trip-to-duane-reade/" target="_blank">here</a> via some pictures. let me just tell you, trying to read and understand those lines was confusing!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="http://hosive.agapeshack.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/img_3837.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="299" /></p>
<p>Once I was sure, I started doing the research on hospitals and doctors. In NY, it&#8217;s a bit mind boggling. You&#8217;re basically choosing between the best Children&#8217;s hospital, best NICU, best pregnancy/birthing hospital, best high risk doctors, etc.  It turned out, whatever hospital I chose would be either the best or at least ranked top 10 in the country in something or another.</p>
<p>Next was down-selecting the doctor. My criteria was:</p>
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<li>Recommended by a friend or more</li>
<li>Takes my insurance</li>
<li>Delivers at one of the better hospitals, per my previous paragraph</li>
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<p>I made appointments with about 4 doctors after getting a list of about 20+ doctors from various friends and doctors. Only a few actually fit my 3 criteria. But then I canceled the rest of my appointments after having seen the first doctor. She was great. Joseph and I didn&#8217;t feel the need to see a bunch of other doctors after her.</p>
<p>Beyond the research and administrative stuff, my body was freaking out on me. Lack of appetite basically caused me to lose about 10lbs. Weird. Most people gain weight, instead I lose weight. I didn&#8217;t want to eat anything really. Meat was a definite turn off and actually still is, but I forced myself to eat it for protiens sake. However, almost anything spicy would be eaten no problem, just not a whole lot of it.</p>
<p>Morning sickness was more like ALL-DAY sickness. At one point I had both diarrehea and vomit coming from my body at the same time! (sat on the toilet with a trashcan in front of me)</p>
<p>The good is that I&#8217;m definitely eating better. I eat far more vegetables and my want for korean food is stronger than ever <img src='http://blog.agapeshack.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  (perhaps to joseph&#8217;s chagrin =P)</p>
<p>And the GREAT is how loving and supportive joseph has been through all the ugliness, grossness, and pickiness.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[this seems to be a facebook thing, but i dont&#8217; like things that are only permanent in facebook. facebook will one day fade away like myspace and xanga. i hope agapeshack never fades. 1. joseph and i were married on july 26, 2003. i was 23. the next day i turned 24. there were about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this seems to be a facebook thing, but i dont&#8217; like things that are only permanent in facebook. facebook will one day fade away like myspace and xanga. i hope agapeshack never fades.</p>
<p>1. joseph and i were married on july 26, 2003. i was 23. the next day i turned 24. there were about 1000 people at the wedding, with 4 receptions. but no limos. just friends..lots of friends</p>
<p>2. i like cooking for friends and family. i took amateur classes at FCI to make sure i wouldn&#8217;t feed them crap. but i have no aspirations in becoming a professional chef.</p>
<p>3. i like stupid movies. joseph calls it the &#8220;theresa network&#8221;. i&#8217;ll watch 13 going on 30, notting hill, and love actually whenever it shows up on tv and i&#8217;ve got free time. but some stupid movies will make me gag &#8211; most recently &#8220;enchanted&#8221;. but i also have a love for smart movies.</p>
<p>4. i used to go karaoke alot back in college. i like to scream into the mic, so i usually sing korean rock ballads. my favorites are lee seung hwan, and kim kyung ho</p>
<p>5. at church, i like to sing at the same octave as the guys when singing worship songs. sometimes it scares the people around me.</p>
<p>6. i love to drive. i miss having a car. my first car was an electric blue nissan altima, after college i bought an acura tl. i now own no car, but part owner or many buses and subway cars.</p>
<p>7. i like to play golf, but i&#8217;m not very good anymore. i&#8217;m a better coach/caddie.  in middle/high school school i used to play alot and actually had a decent handicap.</p>
<p>8. i grew up in inner city baltimore. alot of the stuff that happens in the Wire seems familiar to me.</p>
<p>9. i dislike curry, but will make it for friends and will eat it.</p>
<p>10. i LOVE rice. my comfort foods are rice with kimchi and seaweed soup on the side. it&#8217;s actually the first meal i ever remember eating. i hope this will be an early food for our daughter too.</p>
<p>11. i like to do crafts. i like papercrafting and knitting. i&#8217;m currently in the middle of doing a papercraft of pee-wee herman for a coworker, and i&#8217;m trying to knit a baby blanket.</p>
<p>12.  i ran into a coffee table when i was a kid. i now have a scar immediately underneath my left eye. most people can&#8217;t see it because my glasses usually help hide it</p>
<p>13. i&#8217;ve lived in 11 different homes in maryland alone (does NOT include dorms). 2 in nyc. for a grandtotal of 13. (how fitting&#8230;)</p>
<p>14. i&#8217;ve had the same cell phone number since 1998.</p>
<p>15. i don&#8217;t like chocolate. i had a traumatic incident in elementary school where i had some chocolate milk and shortly thereafter threw up all over my and my friends lunches. i&#8217;ll eat white chocolate sometimes tho.</p>
<p>16. i have a large family. 26+ &#8220;cousins&#8221; just on my mothers side. 26+ &#8220;cousins&#8221; on my dad&#8217;s side as well. i haven&#8217;t met everyone yet, so i&#8217;ve stopped counting. the ones i&#8217;m closest with are those i grew up with, and helped take care of as i was growing up myself.</p>
<p>17. i&#8217;ve always dreamed of owning my own business. i&#8217;ve already thought through my business plan, financing and 5 years worth of goals with high level milestones every 6months. my parents have owned at least 8 businesses that I am aware of/can remember.  most of my aunts and uncles own(ed) their own businesses as well; ranging from a furniture company to a cafe.</p>
<p>18. i scare most people the first time i meet them. it&#8217;s usually me being friendly, they just don&#8217;t realize it.</p>
<p>19. i hate the heat. when i vacation, i like places that are usually cooler and no beaches please.</p>
<p>20. i&#8217;m skeptical about alot of things.</p>
<p>21. i don&#8217;t like people who have a problem with or complain about something but don&#8217;t have suggestions on how to fix it.</p>
<p>22. i can drink heavily, but choose not to. my tolerance is hereditary.</p>
<p>23. i like offal meats. hearts, gizzards, feet, tongue, ears, marrow, intenstine, tripe, sweetbreads, livers, etc. i don&#8217;t eat them often tho. they are not good for you in excess.</p>
<p>24. i&#8217;m strangely good at dealing with customer service and getting what i want either over the phone or in person</p>
<p>25. joseph is my favorite person in the world. right behind my halmuhnee =P</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am embarassed, but i MUST complete this series. day9 of our korea trip was a trip to GyeongJu.  Joseph had read in the travel books about this place as the place to go to see Cherry Blossoms in korea. I briefly mentioned it to my uncle and next thing you know, that&#8217;s where we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i am embarassed, but i MUST complete this series.</p>
<p>day9 of our korea trip was a trip to GyeongJu.  Joseph had read in the travel books about this place as the place to go to see Cherry Blossoms in korea. I briefly mentioned it to my uncle and next thing you know, that&#8217;s where we were headed.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, the day we decided to go it rained. Most of the days we were in Korea it didn&#8217;t rain. Just bad timing I guess <img src='http://blog.agapeshack.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  but the views and the drive was still great. just look at some of the pictures above. plenty of trees to look at and just a beautiful place to be.</p>
<p>since most of korea was about food, for me at least, i must also share about the food we had there. for lunch my aunt had planned to take us to a very popular and good restaurant, but once we got there it was ridiculously packed. the way was far too long, and since we had planned to see a bunch of things that day we went to another place next door.</p>
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<p>needless to say, they thought the food wasn&#8217;t that good. i didn&#8217;t really mind it. i think i&#8217;m too used to korean food that is just mediocre. My mediocre is the equivalent to bad in korea &gt;_&lt;.  i&#8217;ll skip on describing the mediocre food. not worth my time or effort</p>
<p>next up was a trip to one of the oldest buddhist shrines in korea. by now it was pouring. my uncle bought us each a plastic poncho and thankfully they had some umbrellas in their car. one of the nice things about doing touristy things while it&#8217;s raining is that there are so few tourists it almost doesn&#8217;t matter <img src='http://blog.agapeshack.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p>Joseph was able to sneak this blurry picture in before we got into any trouble when told we weren&#8217;t allowed to take pictures of the shrine. you can sort of make out the gold buddha behind the pillar.</p>
<p>the rain made us all a little miserable. walking around the dirt paths, in the rain was not ideal. our pants were soaking, we were cold, and the risk of falling while walking up the hills and stuff was much greater than we would&#8217;ve liked. so we left shortly thereafter. maybe one day joseph and i will go back when the weather is more manageable.</p>
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<p>like the korean fried chicken, these gyeongju-bbang pastries were a trendy food for a while. it&#8217;s basically a thin flour pastry filled with redbean paste. it&#8217;s a not too sweet, small dessert. i&#8217;m not a big fan of these types of desserts. mainly because i don&#8217;t really like my redbean to be on the drier side. still tasty tho. i think joseph had a few.</p>
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<p>next up was a museum. it&#8217;s now been way too long for me to remember the name of the museum, but it&#8217;s the main one in gyeong ju. here we saw more statues, and old relics. it was also a nice break from the pouring rain.</p>
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<p>the highlight of the day for me was dinner. look at this spread! all these little dishes took up the entire table. fish, meats, pickled veggies, stir fried this and that. plethora to choose from. a great meal to end the day.</p>
<p>here&#8217;s a nice little aside:</p>
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<p>all of us in the states complaining about gas prices, can now stop. in korea this WAS the price of gas back in july (only a little into the rising gas crisis we&#8217;re going through now). it&#8217;s about $1.60 per LITER. that equates to about $4.50/gallon for the cheapest gas. i&#8217;m curious as to what the gas prices in korea are now. i&#8217;m imagining my aunt&#8217;s family in korea taking the bus or subway instead of their 2 huge audi sedans or the gas guzzling volvo. ok.. yeah..probably not likely.</p>
<p>hopefully my next korea post won&#8217;t take 2 months to write =P</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[so in my attempt to show joseph around seoul finally, i wanted to take him to the street market. that morning at breakfast i was thoroughly reprimanded by my aunt, uncle and cousin who demanded that i take him to see more things. so instead of just showing him things most koreans think is normal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so in my attempt to show joseph around seoul finally, i wanted to take him to the street market. that morning at breakfast i was thoroughly reprimanded by my aunt, uncle and cousin who demanded that i take him to see more things. so instead of just showing him things most koreans think is normal and average, my aunt tagged along and took us to a few places (more on that later). this is what we ate as i was getting &#8220;yelled&#8221; at:</p>
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<p align="left">every morning, we&#8217;re required to eat breakfast as a family. something that joseph and i normally don&#8217;t do everyday is eat breakfast, and if we do, it&#8217;s rarely together. this is something i hope we&#8217;ll do in the future together, but not likely to happen everyday. and honestly, probably not going to happen once a week either.</p>
<p align="left">after breakfast my aunt decided we&#8217;re going to changdeokgung, so off we went on a bus that was less than $2 per person for a 40min ride into the city. darn cheap if you ask me! joseph&#8217;s first real taste of seoul and one of the first things he sees is burger king&#8217;s bulgogi burger. *sigh* we&#8217;ve yet to see the kimchi pizza i used to adore, but there&#8217;s still a few days left on the trip.</p>
<p align="left">not sure if everyone knows, but there&#8217;s rhyme and reason to my fighting for the check. korean culture dictates that in various situations an older &#8220;sibling&#8221; or married person pick up the tab. there&#8217;s other incidents where you are supposed to at least ATTEMPT to pay. one example of this is if you&#8217;re out of town, and being a &#8220;burden&#8221; to a friend or family or if you have guests in town and want to treat them. here my aunt and i are fighting for who pays to get into the palace (this concept is often lost on most westerners, and it&#8217;s hard to fully explain all the intricacies so i&#8217;ll bypass the remaining details):</p>
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<p> the palace requires that you go on a tour through the palace and &#8220;secret garden&#8221; based on a schedule. if you want to take the english tour you MUST go during a specific time. same with korean, japanese, or chinese. (people wonder where i get my analness from. here&#8217;s your answer):</p>
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<p align="left">after we left the palace grounds, we ran into street vendor cart that sells gookhwabbang (traditional cake with red bean). some other tourists were curious as to what we were eating, and so my aunt nonchalantly passes one  of the tastey treats to a tall white lady and says &#8220;TRY!&#8221;</p>
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<p align="left">she then quickly went and bought her own bag to share with her friends, and offered my aunt one as a replacement for the one offered to her. my aunt laughed and brushed her off.</p>
<p align="left">next was lunch. and when i say lunch, i mean a very traditional korean meal! we had samgaetang (chicken soup). but this is not a chicken soup like the kinda stuff that campbell&#8217;s makes in a can, it&#8217;s the kind that feels homemade, in the deep farm lands of korea, with the healthy stuff that kids absolutely hate, like ginseng, chestnuts, jujube, and gingko nuts.</p>
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<p align="left">i guess i&#8217;m now old, since i love the samgaetang. both joseph and i pretty much ate each of our entire chickens that were stuffed with rice and all the healthy &#8220;junk&#8221;. after finishing this meal i think i wanted to take a nap, but my aunt is a vary active woman and demanded we go to the next place.</p>
<p align="left">namsan tower &#8211; now known as N Seoul tower. Not really sure why they changed the name, but whatever. it&#8217;s still the same cheese that you get at empire state, or top of the rock in nyc. view is great since you can see most of seoul, but on a super clear day you can see pretty far, as far as incheon which is about an hour drive away from seoul. unfortunately, our day was not as clear, but we still got to see pretty far.</p>
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<p align="left">afterwards we went to namdaemoon shijang (north gate market). this market is at the foot of what was one of korea&#8217;s OLDEST and most beloved landmarks. the gate had survived many wars, japanese invasion, and the modernization/bastardization of korea&#8217;s epicenter. recently a crazy old man,  decided to light the gate up in flames, destroying a piece of history and national treasure that sat amidst throngs of cars, and flashing lights as a reminder to all koreans of &#8220;where we came from&#8221;. korea quickly put together the funds to rebuild the gate and what you see today is a large wall that encircles the entire area. when i saw this from the bus, i felt a tug in my heart that was deep. i guess it would be like the statue of liberty being taken down by a mad man. you&#8217;d feel pain but it&#8217;d be rather surprising to know how much you were unknowingly attached to it.</p>
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<p>we didn&#8217;t take any pictures of the market, but it&#8217;s definitely a site to see. apparently it&#8217;s best to go at nite when all the business owners are buying stuff to sell at their stores, but i hate the shopping and haggling, so why bother? but we did see this box on our way out:</p>
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<p align="left">i didn&#8217;t realize an operating system was synonymous to &#8220;home ceramic irons&#8221;.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[day 2 was really our first day in korea, and it was really about orientation. relearning where things were like bus stops and the exchange rate. thankfully we bank with an international bank and my aunt also uses the same bank we do. my aunt drives us to this building that looks sort of lame [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left">day 2 was really our first day in korea, and it was really about orientation. relearning where things were like bus stops and the exchange rate.</p>
<p>thankfully we bank with an international bank and my aunt also uses the same bank we do. my aunt drives us to this building that looks sort of lame from the outside but when you get inside there&#8217;s a bunch of floors with random things including a bank. inside the bank we don&#8217;t just enter the regular common folk area, there&#8217;s a &#8220;vip&#8221; area for the high rollers/veterans. we go straight there and it seems like everyone knows my aunt. they exchange some money for us at a little bit better of rate than the avg person since it&#8217;s the &#8220;vip&#8221; area. not really sure how much better of a rate I got, but i was assured that it would be better than those common folk &#8220;over there&#8221;.</p>
<p>in this same unusual looking building were 2 hair salons right next to the bank on the same floor. weird. we were told that one salon is for the older folks, and the other was for the younger set. so we got our haircuts as we normally would on our post-easter vacation. <a href="http://hosive.agapeshack.com">joseph </a>always gets some weird contraption on his head, and this time was no different, he got saran wrapped =P</p>
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<p>we both got trims and some haircolor. i decided this time i didn&#8217;t want to do anything crazy and just stuck with a little bit of color, and joseph got a reddish brown color.</p>
<p>then we went to buy some groceries. knowing that joseph doesn&#8217;t like alot of korean foods, my aunt decided to wait to get groceries after we arrived. while at the costco like warehouse joseph saw these fun things (wendy, pay attn):</p>
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<p>we also saw some other stuff too, like frosted flakes and fruitloops, which they called &#8220;corn frost&#8221; and &#8220;fruit ring&#8221; respectively. and i guess they try to promote milk by calling it &#8220;einstein milk&#8221;<br />
the most beautiful thing in the market was the fresh seafood. it looked amazing! i feel like we rarely ever get to see fish that fresh in a market in nyc and so well laid out that it really makes you want to buy it</p>
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<p>then to a late lunch of jjajjangmyun. the last two or three times i&#8217;ve come to korea, my aunt takes me to this place in another building, in the basement that has some great jjajjangmyun.</p>
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<p>thus ended our day out. the rest of the day was spent at home with family and catching up on some much needed sleep!</p>
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		<title>more chopsticks!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ok i must have an obsession with silverware because this is the third entry about it (choplery, pen cap silverware) . &#62;_&#60; as most asian folks do, i use chopsticks pretty often. not just for eating food, but also to grab things from very tight spaces, and stir my drinks for example. chopsticks are versatile. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok i must have an obsession with silverware because this is the third entry about it (<a href="http://blog.agapeshack.com/2008/02/28/chopstick-cutlery/">choplery</a>,<br />
<a href="http://blog.agapeshack.com/2008/01/23/pen-cap-silverware/">pen cap silverware</a>) . &gt;_&lt;</p>
<p>as most asian folks do, i use chopsticks pretty often. not just for eating food, but also to grab things<br />
from very tight spaces, and stir my drinks for example. chopsticks are versatile. when you&#8217;re eating with<br />
chopsticks, rarely do you need knives or forks if you know how to use them properly.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://www.uigarden.net/english/images/116.jpg" height="255" width="452" /></p>
<p align="center">[picture:  <a href="http://www.uigarden.net/english/meaning-of-chopsticks-in-asia" target="_blank">uigarden</a>]</p>
<p>i&#8217;m also a bit picky about the types of chopsticks i like to use. if necessary, i will use the chopsticks that<br />
are really long and clunky/thick like the red ones in the picture above but i prefer not too. they&#8217;re too<br />
cumbersome and never accurate enough. these types of chopsticks can be found at most chinese<br />
restaurants. now some folks would tell you they&#8217;re long for a reason. to turn your chopsticks around to<br />
serve others or take from a communal plate. ok honestly&#8230; i find them annoyingly large, and if you&#8217;re<br />
going to turn them around to avoid &#8220;germs&#8221; then i hope you and everyone else washed their hands. i<br />
personally have way too many pairs of these in my own home (we inherited them from <a href="http://hosive.agapeshack.com" target="_blank">joseph</a>&#8216;s old<br />
living space when we got married) and wish they would go into the trashbin or given to some needy<br />
asian folks who need chopsticks. but some would ask&#8230;why throw out /give away perfectly good<br />
chopsticks? *sigh*</p>
<p>i do like the top two types. they&#8217;re both extremely accurate and the best part is that you can cut things<br />
in half with them neatly. however i think metal chopsticks are better. they just last longer and you can<br />
put them in the dishwasher (*gasp* no korean woman would do this. sorry but THIS one does)</p>
<p>check out these chopsticks! they would only be better if they were completely metal. they also look<br />
freakishly like weapons.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m275/jogi21/random/flip_sticks.jpg" alt="flipsticks" height="419" width="460" /></p>
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		<title>chopstick cutlery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hehmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i seem to have an interest in alternative-use silverware (re: pen cap silverware). otherwise known as &#8220;choperly&#8221;: These function as both chopsticks and spoon, knife, or fork! korean restaurants should place these at the tables, so people who aren&#8217;t skilled with the chopsticks don&#8217;t have to ask for forks =P i wonder how easy they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i seem to have an interest in alternative-use silverware (re: <a href="http://blog.agapeshack.com/2008/01/23/pen-cap-silverware/" title="pen cap silverware" target="_blank">pen cap silverware</a>).<br />
otherwise known as &#8220;choperly&#8221;:</p>
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<p>These function as both chopsticks and spoon, knife, or fork! korean restaurants should place these<br />
at the tables, so people who aren&#8217;t skilled with the chopsticks don&#8217;t have to ask for forks =P</p>
<p>i wonder how easy they are to use, as non-chopsticks?</p>
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		<title>kimchi for spacemen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[one of my favorite things in life is kimchi. that&#8217;s not surprising since i&#8217;m korean. most koreans are i guess a bit obsessive about their kimchi. in my case, my favorite kimchis are usually variations of mool-kimchi (water kimchi). Why of all kimchis mool kimchi? because it doesn&#8217;t smell as much so you can take [...]]]></description>
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<p>one of my favorite things in life is kimchi. that&#8217;s not surprising since i&#8217;m korean. most koreans are i<br />
guess a bit obsessive about their kimchi. in my case, my favorite kimchis are usually variations of<br />
mool-kimchi (water kimchi). Why of all kimchis mool kimchi? because it doesn&#8217;t smell as much so you<br />
can take it to work, it&#8217;s refreshing when it&#8217;s ice cold, and is still got that kick from vinegar and spices!</p>
<p>i know it&#8217;s not the traditional cabbage kimchi but for those reasons it&#8217;s my favorite. however, i do enjoy<br />
the traditional as often as i can, as do most koreans; especially korean astronauts according to the<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/world/asia/24kimchi.html?ex=1361595600&amp;en=51d341e009c69e30&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink" title="nytimes" target="_blank">NY Times</a>. the korean gov&#8217;t spent millions&#8230; MILLIONS.. on trying to figure out how to ship kimchi to<br />
space.</p>
<p>i wonder if they&#8217;ll sell this in korean supermarkets like they sold tang in the US. we&#8217;ll find out in april,<br />
and if they do i&#8217;ll bring some back <img src='http://blog.agapeshack.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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