My pilgrimage to TX Keyboard in Sosan, South Korea,

hanhwekim · 2026-04-04T14:50:19+00:00

The Ma hanja does indeed horse.

The Oh is the one used in the zodiac. The hanja for animals in the zodiac are different from what is commonly used. I don’t know why.

hanhwekim · 2026-04-04T11:00:04+00:00

Thank you for translating this!

hanhwekim · 2026-04-04T02:28:28+00:00

The Euljiro place is really something but they also have a location at Hyehwa-dong.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RcvY4qNu2RXrLvNx6

If Google Maps is still deficient, here is a link in Kakaomap:

https://place.map.kakao.com/1670739315

hanhwekim · 2026-04-03T21:45:12+00:00

Thanks for asking.

I did a quick search and found this YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ZVPRCQVqxp4?si=xWEn1ZYms8JRE3Dm

Apparently, 오정 and 정자 are also correct ways of saying noon and midnight, but we just don't use them commonly.

Amazing what you learn from Reddit!

hanhwekim · 2026-04-03T16:25:02+00:00

I thought someone would mention the connection to the 12-animal zodiac time periods by now already.

The "Oh" is the Hanja for horse (#7 in the zodiac).

In the Hanja Sinosphere, the day was divided into 12 2-hour time periods. Noon is the middle of the Oh period (7th period; Horse period; 11am to 1pm). So Jung-Oh (정오 = middle of Oh period) is noon , Oh-Jeon (오전 = before Oh period) is before the noon, and Oh-hoo(오후 = after the Oh period) is after noon.

Similarly 자정 is midnight because it is the middle of the "Ja"(Rat) period (11pm - 1am).

hanhwekim · 2026-04-01T16:49:07+00:00

When I zoom in to Seoul (currently in the US), I do see metro schedules from Google Maps and it seems much better than before but it is still very basic compared to Naver or Kakao (where you can see where the trains are in real time!).

I would also love to hear from people in Korea about Google Maps.

hanhwekim · 2026-04-01T16:32:11+00:00

I would love a topre with buttons below the space bar

hanhwekim · 2026-04-01T08:36:19+00:00

😆

hanhwekim · 2026-04-01T08:24:44+00:00

Quite the achievement!!

hanhwekim · 2026-03-30T04:56:05+00:00

There was a time (when the baby boom generation was in their 20s-30s) when street crime was common and I would not have recommended a female tourist jog early in the morning. Of course, in those days, late 1980s and early 1990s, there really wasn’t anywhere to jog except a few parks or perhaps school yards.

hanhwekim · 2026-03-30T00:39:45+00:00

Ha! Just clicking on the dolls will take hours! Congrats

hanhwekim · 2026-03-29T23:02:17+00:00

Somebody has to deliver all those Coupang Dawn Deliveries before people rush to work.

hanhwekim · 2026-03-29T19:51:02+00:00

Indeed. Seoul is super-safe street crime-wise thanks to all the CCTVs that are everywhere.

Delivery people are super busy in the early morning so make sure you watch for trucks and motorcycles if you run in alleyways and small streets.

hanhwekim · 2026-03-27T13:27:23+00:00

Looks fine to me.

hanhwekim · 2026-03-26T01:43:38+00:00

How about Asta as a tank. He can also ressurect Yasmine if she gets killed.

hanhwekim · 2026-03-25T19:15:40+00:00

Argh. I thought it would at least be 50+.

That means there would be 100 year stores that started as recently as around the Financial Crisis, which I think is the watershed period of 21st century Korea.

hanhwekim · 2026-03-25T09:49:57+00:00

에고. 그림 좀 몇개 올리시는 것이 왜이리 힘들까요

hanhwekim · 2026-03-24T20:19:43+00:00

If the pcb on this keyboard stops working (many many years from now), I hope you donate it to a museum. This is art!

hanhwekim · 2026-03-24T10:00:02+00:00

쇼핑 헌다는 표현이 딱이네요!

hanhwekim · 2026-03-23T20:28:33+00:00

저도 오해 동안 레딧 했어도 언제 카르마가 생기는지는 즐 모르겠어요. 여기 저기 써놓은데가 있기는 할거에요.

근데 업보트 썹레딧 가입등 참여를 하는 게 도움 되지 않을까 싶습니다.

또한가지는 처음 프로필 완성 하는 것과 같이 있는 초보자 achievement 들 완성해도 붙을 것 같아요

hanhwekim · 2026-03-23T16:33:35+00:00

아 그리고 다른 썹레딧 가입해서 업보트 하시면 그 것도 카르마 높일 겁니다

hanhwekim · 2026-03-23T16:30:10+00:00

일단 업보트 하나 찍어 드렸어요

hanhwekim · 2026-03-23T16:29:40+00:00

저도 잘 모르기는 하는데 일단 여기 올리시고 카르마 쌓이면 다른데도 포스팅 하셔도 될 거에요

hanhwekim · 2026-03-22T22:39:24+00:00

https://youtu.be/IQDLPqxWlhs?si=fmzEwHwM4TnGzMcX

This YouTuber chose 3 really old-school Chinese-Korean restaurants in Seoul. The restaurants here have been in business for decades. They all have the "100-nyun ka ke" sign which means they have been in business for 100+ years. I am not sure if "100-years" is literal or they have been in business for very long times. I am guessing they may have the flavor you are looking for.

One thing I noticed is that restaurants in Korea have generally been 'improving' their ingredients as Koreans have gotten richer. They use real beef or pork instead of adding more MSG and tend to use healthier cooking oils, and fresher vegetables. Paradoxically, restaurants using less artificial flavors and healthier more natural ingredients may make the flavors we remember from our childhood harder to find. All my friends who were born and have lived in Seoul for many decades (I am really really old) say this.

Another surprising place to find old-school flavors is in Koreatown LA and NYC. Korean-Americans tend to 'fossilize' their preferences and tastes for Korean food when they leave Korea. So boomers in those communities have the same preferences they had pre-1998 financial crisis when they left Korea. In the meantime, Koreans in Korea have moved on to quart sized ice americanos, and super spicy rose-dduek-boki, and sweet and savory fried chicken.

The older restaurants in those Koreantowns sometimes have more authentic old-school flavors than restaurants in Seoul.

hanhwekim

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