It is easy to jump to the conclusion that what someone is saying in another language is something very serious. And often it’s not at all! I can understand enough Korean to sometimes guess what is being said, but I had no clue what this girl was saying so dramatically as we walked past. It ended up being not at all what I expected.
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I always draw comics of things that have actually happened to us but this time it’s something different. I’ve decided that occasionally I may put our cartoon characters into a fictional situation/parody.
So in celebration of Twilight…………ending…… here is a Twilight themed comic.
(I am in no way insinuating that GD creepily watches people sleep either!)
You know that scene in the drama Iris where TOP snaps the girl’s neck? Okay actually I never properly watched Iris. I just watched the parts that TOP was in….
Speaking of Korean dramas, if you’ve watched enough of them you might have noticed that Korean guys sometimes interact differently with girls than what you may be used to in your own country. Or maybe it’s similar, I don’t know. Not all guys act like that, but yes, sometimes things are like in a Korean drama. For me though, the things like the arm grabs (which I’ve mentioned before) and the sudden and dramatic grabbing and hugging can take some getting used to. I still flinch when I’m grabbed or hugged tightly because it still takes me a second to remember that it’s a passionate sign of affection and not something bad.
This giveaway is now closed.
This giveaway its kinda funny… it’s a towel!
It’s unopened and sealed in plastic. It’s a light blue towel with Lee Min Ho photos on it. It is not a Western size bath towel, it’s Korean size ^_^
If you would like to rub Lee Min Ho’s face all over your body after a shower, enter this giveaway! Just leave a comment in the comment section and a winner will be picked at random in about 2 weeks time.
This was something that confused me. South Korea is so technologically advanced and internet savvy, I couldn’t work out why every Korean I knew was using IE. Not only the fact that IE is acknowledged to be the worst browser, but also that Koreans seemed to have no variety when it came to browsers.
I realise why now, thanks to a friend who sent me this article. Internet Explorer becomes Korean election issue by Phil Muncaster.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer market share may soon take a tumble in South Korea if presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo wins looming elections. The hot seat hopeful plans to abolish an anachronistic government crypto standard which has effectively locked users into Internet Explorer for over a decade.
At the tail end of the 1990s, the Korean government decided in its wisdom to develop a home-grown 128-bit SSL encryption standard to increase security around e-commerce.
SEED, as it was known, was then mandated for all online transactions.
The only problem with this new system was that it requires users to install Microsoft ActiveX plug-in to work and therefore needs Internet Explorer.
The result: a decade-long monopoly for IE as banking, shopping and other transactional sites were optimised specifically and exclusively for the Microsoft browser.
Now it makes sense! Koreans have been forced into using IE and because of that, many do not know that there are much better browsers to use when they are outside of Korea. Which is why many Koreans will still use IE even when in places like Australia, because they just haven’t thought about using a different one.
Well you learn something new every day.
(By the way, the first panel in the comic is a lie. Korean boys in internet cafes in Korea never look at me. While I might get stared at a lot walking on the streets, inside the hazy, smokey internet cafes no one even notices the tall blonde Caucasian woman cursing at IE, because they are so focused on gaming).
When he is a bit loopy from cold medicine it’s like dealing with a very big, very loud and very strong two-year-old. He has a bad cold again, so hasn’t been very happy. We went out last Sunday for some fresh air but he was a little bit…… not alright. My friend was like, “He’s a bit off today isn’t he?” Um….yes. It’s funny, but I do feel like I have to watch him carefully. I think it’s not just the medicine but also being light headed and sick just makes him do silly things.
Hopefully he’ll be feeling better soon and back to normal.
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