Korean Rappers

On Saturday night, we were passing through Sadang Station in Seoul on our way back to Suwon when we saw a crowd gathered and heard some singing. You can often find performers in the subway stations especially on weekends. I happened to have my video camera and was able to catch this group.




We only caught half of this song. We unfortunately wtinessed a drunk ajoshhi causing a scene. When we exited the Sadang subway, we encountered the longest line for the 7770 bus in our entire time here in South Korea. Other bus lines were also unusually long. We found the end of the line and began our wait. There were four to five lines waiting for different buses and the buses were few and far between.

All of the sudden, a drunken ajoshhi starts yelling and another ajosshi (who was in line for a bus) complaining about the wait. His hands were flying and he directed his anger at the ajosshi waiting patiently in line. The arguing went back and forth until the drunken ajosshi pulled out his knife case and showed a knife with about a five inch blade. This stopped the argument immediately.

This is when Curt (hubby) and I started to get real nervous. Luckily, he put the knife back into his bag and then cut into the front of line. Flashing an exposed knife does give one the ability to cut in line. Their bus finally came and as the drunk ajosshi entered the bus, he stopped and started screaming at the bus driver. Passengers were unable to enter the bus and everyone just stood around trying to ignore what was going on. Finally, a Korean man took the guy and shoved him to the back of the bus. The bus driver was smiling and shaking his head the whole time.

I thought about videotaping this whole thing since we had our camera but Curt was against it since the guy had a knife and he could direct it on us. I'm really hoping not to see any more of this type of behavior because it is really disturbing especially when you are witness to it. Traffic turned out to be horrible to Suwon and that is why the buses were so sparse.

Making Korean Kimbap

My Korean girlfriend came over and taught me how to make Korean kimbap. It is pretty easy to make and your local Korean grocery store sells the ingredients ready made.


Here is Hannah, ready to roll!


The ingredients we used from bottom of the picture to the top: SPAM (already precut for kimbap), fish cakes, eggs (Hannah fried these ahead of time), some kind of brown vegetable and yellow radish. The rice is the regular Korean sticky rice which she added vinegar to and the seaweed sheets.



My virus protection would not let me upload videos to YouTube but luckily, Curt (hubby) finally had time to fix the problem. I have lots of videos to share and I'm slowly uploading them so stay tuned. Enjoy watching Hannah make kimbap. It was delicious.

Korean Show "We Got Married"

As if I don't watch enough Korean dramas, I've found this show called "We Got Married." In the show, ten famous Koreans are paired up and pretend to be married. Each week the pair has an activity to do as a couple like cooking a traditional Korean meal including grocery shopping to babysitting.

It is one of the hottest shows on Korean television and I find myself enjoying it even if I can't understand what they are saying. I'm learning even more about Korean culture. You can find episodes on YouTube. The episode above is when one of the couples has to babysit quadruplets and I found found myself laughing out loud through much of it.

Bus Ride from Seoul to Suwon

Luckily, last week we got the first seats in the bus so I was able to shoot some video of these crazy Korean bus drivers. They love to drive on the shoulder during heavy traffic. Enjoy!

Hero Ha - A Korean Pint Size Crooner Belts Out The Beatles

I was flipping channels the other night on Korean television and found Hero Ha giving a concert of Beatles songs. He had a microphone strapped to his cheek and he was strumming a toy guitar. He was born in September 2003 in Seoul, South Korea. He is amazing!

Hold On, Change is Coming

This song is by Sounds of Blackness. They are from my home state of Minnesota. The Asian markets tanked today and it seems like the news is all doom and gloom. How can you not feel better after listening to this. Enjoy everyone! Keep the faith!