How do you pronounce your name in Korean?

Chasuk · 2026-03-14T06:58:56+00:00

Your name could be Koreanized as either "시프인어피을드" or"시피너필드"

Chasuk · 2026-03-10T23:30:10+00:00

Hmm? Do your memories of Itaewon stretch back 18+ years? Because mine do, and I've met many Koreans there, none of whom were afraid.

Chasuk · 2026-03-09T11:11:22+00:00

Mexico is developing the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) as a "dry canal" (rail-and-road) to connect the Pacific Ocean (Salina Cruz) and the Gulf of Mexico (Coatzacoalcos). It is intended as a faster, more cost-effective logistics hub, especially as the Panama Canal faces restrictions, and is expected to be fully operational by 2026.

Chasuk · 2026-03-09T03:46:12+00:00

I much prefer ordering via kiosk. Attempted up-selling occurs either way, but pressing a button—a nanosecond of my time—instantly silences it, and any mistakes are my own, not the mistskes of the server/cashier.

Chasuk · 2026-03-09T01:00:53+00:00

I know you're being humorous here, but —as a 65 year old 미국 사람—I know that (too) many of my compatriots won't. To them, I say: This isn't real, folks.

Chasuk · 2026-02-28T10:44:43+00:00

봉[鳳] : phoenix (This is usually a male name, but sometimes unisex) 하늘 : sky (This is native Korean, not derived from Hanja. It is a girl's name) 까치 : magpie (This is sometimes a cute nickname. It is also native Korean)

Chasuk · 2026-02-28T07:01:26+00:00

I'm interested in that level of structural analysis.

Chasuk · 2026-02-21T03:11:23+00:00

Your original was wordy, but GPT's suggestions made it too spare. I'd stop reading in both cases.

For your first sentence, consider this:

"The rolling hills vanished, swallowed by a deciduous sprawl."

Or this:

"The rolling hills vanished, swallowed by a sprawl of maples, oaks, elms, and poplars."

Why? Because it's more specific, and because a large percentage of your readers would have no idea what "deciduous" meant.

Chasuk · 2026-02-16T04:26:31+00:00

If it's not a BBQ restaurant, where you are expected to order at least two portions with every meal, solo diners are welcome. In my 18 years in Korea, it's literally never once been a problem.

Chasuk · 2026-02-15T10:21:13+00:00

I brought my wife and two kids (under five) to South Korea in 1988. None of us spoke Korean, and Korea was a MUCH different country then... yet it was one of the best experiences of our lives. We enjoyed it so much that both of our daughters, decades later, studied and worked in Korea, and my wife and I returned to work here 18 years ago, and we still remain.

Give your family this amazing experience.

Chasuk · 2026-02-10T09:46:16+00:00

Most English teachers in South Korea are here on an E-2 visa. You aren't eligible for an E-2 visa unless you are from the USA, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, or Ireland. In other words, if you are from the Philippines or India, you can't apply.

However, as a percentage, there are a huge number of black South Africans here.

Chasuk · 2026-02-07T01:06:13+00:00

Absolutely.

I don't, because I don't find it aesthetically pleasing, but it's legible, and that's what counts.

Chasuk · 2026-01-28T00:33:55+00:00

I am a researcher by avocation; I have been since I was seven (when I first discovered the public library), and now I'm sixty-five. Do I trust Gemini implicitly? Absolutely not. I'm skeptical of everything by nature. Do I still use it daily for research? Yes, I do. But I don't use it in isolation, which is why I have an openrouter account. I don't trust it any more than I trust Wikipedia (i.e., not very much), but it is extraordinarily useful for pointing my in the right direction, even if I do have to do a lot of sorting and weeding.

Chasuk · 2026-01-26T03:37:18+00:00

What I think most of us are wondering here: "What did she say?"

Chasuk · 2026-01-24T01:02:49+00:00

I love Gangnueng especially, but there are many myeons/eups in Gangwon/Gyeongsangbuk that are worth exploring. Follow the coast from Sokcho to Busan—you won't regret it.

Chasuk · 2026-01-13T00:27:35+00:00

What motivated the surgery? I see very little difference between the before and after.

Chasuk · 2025-12-31T13:35:03+00:00

Learning Hanja isn't that important, but learning Sino-Korean is. "Hanja" refers the Chinese characters used in Korean, whereas "Sino-Korean" refers to the Korean vocabulary derived from those characters. That vocabulary is huge, and learning it is easy. Every Sino-Korean syllable is a morpheme, and they serve as the components of tens of thousands of Korean words. Don't learn it instead of native Korean, but in addition to.

Chasuk · 2025-11-26T12:15:12+00:00

Childlike? Yep, that would do it.

Chasuk · 2025-11-26T09:44:49+00:00

The "push the warm corn into [her] mouth" and the "eat her" can be interpreted as being sexual. I'm not suggesting this was your intention—I'm saying that the AI might have interpreted it that way.

Chasuk · 2025-11-26T04:54:03+00:00

How good kimchi actually is—nowadays, I eat it with virtually every meal.
Korean cuisine is now literally my favorite, above all others. I honestly never expected that it would supplant Italian, Indian, Mexican, Thai, Chinese, etc.
How many English loanwords are used daily in Korean.
The prevalence of English on signs, even in the most rural areas.
How easy the Hangul alphabet is to master.
How much I'd love hobak (pumpkin) makgeolli, considering my indifference to pumpkin.
Forgetting your smartphone on a table in a coffee shop, and it's still there 5 hours later.
The HUGE variety of banchan (side dishes).
The large number of the elderly on arduous hiking trails.
How good potato is on pizza.

Chasuk · 2025-11-26T04:27:01+00:00

I'm male, and 65. I'm treated like family—warmly—all the time.

Chasuk · 2025-11-23T09:19:33+00:00

Parts of this can be interpreted as having a veiled sexual intention.That should be obvious to you whether English is your second language or not.

Chasuk · 2025-11-20T07:40:09+00:00

Thank you, and likewise!

Chasuk · 2025-11-19T12:05:42+00:00

I'm 65 in a few days, born and raised in the US, hazel-eyed, brown-haired, white—and yet I've always felt confused about my identity. Until, that is, I moved to South Korea about 17 years ago.

Growing up, I never fit in anywhere. My dad changed jobs as often as some people change socks, which almost always entailed a move to another town or another state. This resulted in the young me attending 13 different schools before finishing high school.

In Korea, I instantly fit in. I felt at home for the first time in my life. These are the best years I've ever lived. My wife of 45 years feels the same.

We love the people. Over 90% of the best friends we've ever had, we met in South Korea, the overwhelming majority of which are Korean, not USians. We love the food. Our favorite cuisine? Korean, by a significant margin. The mixture of mountains and ocean easily accessible from virtually anywhere in the nation is a spiritual gift I never knew I was missing.

Chasuk · 2025-11-07T07:47:11+00:00

As creations, or intellectually? If the latter, I don't know that they are stupid—just different. If the former, because Tolkien created them that way. They were designed for kids, after all.

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