식객

My favorite Korean movie is now on television. It's been running all month on OCN, and I LOVE it! In Korean, it's called 식객 which translates into "Le Grand Chef". I watched it perhaps three times on the flights to and from Korea in March (for Spring Break) ... and on the internet numerous times ... and NOW ON TV!

But there's no subtitles. I still remember what happens though, haha. I hate that Bong-ju (봉주) played by LIM Won-Hie (임원희). BUUUT I love Sun-Chan (성찬) played by KIM Kang-woo (김강우). And everytime that "little sister" (여동생) dies, I cry. Sad, huh?

PS, 여동생 isn't a PERSON. It's a cow. You have to watch the movie to understand. And when 할아버지 dies, I'm saddened as well. But the movie is SO great. I LOVE IT!

And 봉주 really is a jerk.

I Think I Really wanna see this ...

"One of the most amusing sights that the Korean has ever seen regularly occur on White Day, in front of Ewha University in Seoul. Ewha is a premier women's university, and men who are not employed by the school are not allowed to enter the school grounds (except a few extremely lucky souls, mostly exchange students from outside Korea.) This is because Ewha was established in the late 19th century when women getting any education was highly disapproved; no man (usually a father of a student) could enter the school in order to drag the student out and put her back to the kitchen.

The rule survives today, which lends to the sight. On White Day, outside of the front gate of Ewha, you can see litterally hundreds of young men, each carrying flowers and candies and awkwardly dressed in their best, waiting for their girlfriends to come out of the school. The most amusing thing is that across the street from the gate, there is a building that has a set of wide steps in front of it, like a platform. That platform is completely filled with men carrying flowers, standing on their tiptoes to get a better view of the gate, many of them on their cell phones talking with their girlfriends. The men themselves don't realize it, but to a passerby, the sight is incredibly hilarious. In fact, the group as a whole was given a nickname - ba-bo bu-dae ("the idiot brigade.")"

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-commercially-made-up-gift-giving.html

Korean Family Names

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_family_names

I decided that I want to change my (Korean) family name from 조 to 즙. Under "distributions", Wikipedia estimates the number FOUR. FOUR! Really? As opposed to the 1.3 million for my actual family name.

How cool would it be to have a name that only like, four families or clans or whatever are estimated to be using at that time?

Okay, maybe only I think that.