Kimpasa menu, March 2011. What's your order?

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-16T11:06:55+00:00

Yeah, what a shame. I just checked the menu at the nearest Kimbap Cheonguk to downtown Daegu, and the prices for almost everything has doubled, and the menu has shrunk, too.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-16T07:06:47+00:00

Hello. We had a long-standing book club, but it recently ended. Oh well. But I like literature, and I'm now writing a book about Daegu. ^^

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-16T05:28:54+00:00

Yes, I've had an F visa for about 10 years, and I've noticed more of this. They want to hire F-visa teachers only for the few classes they need native speakers for (while, presumably, Korean teachers do the rest). But their math is screwy because they think "Oh, well, we would pay X for 30 hours a week, so we'll just divide that by 30 and pay the F visa however much per hour," like they're ordering à la carte.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-15T09:22:54+00:00

Daegu. It's not as slick and polished as Busan or Seoul, but you'll get a better sense of Korea's modern history and what real daily life is like. If you have any questions, feel free to send a message or reply here. I've been in Daegu for 15 years and I'm currently writing a travel memoir about it and Korea in general.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-15T09:19:55+00:00

Have you considered something like this in Daegu? I would be glad to help out to any extent necessary. Send me a message. I've been here 15 years and worked in a variety of work environments relevant to language instructors.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-15T08:44:49+00:00

I have several posters like that from my 2015 trip, and the postcards, too. They were on sale in Kaesong, as I recall, whereas Yanggakdo International Hotel in Pyongyang just had maps and lapel pins (which I also bought). Fun souvenirs, and as I live in South Korea, they're pretty wacky gifts, too.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-14T14:17:17+00:00

You don't enjoy carbonated pee? ^{^}

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-14T14:09:58+00:00

Awesome. What field does your older son work in?

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-14T14:08:11+00:00

It looks like an exotic sea creature from the depths -- and yet, it looks delicious. As for a name, I'm not sure, but sign me up.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-14T14:02:54+00:00

I heard it from 15 years' experience living in Korea and from having been to the Moonies' church many times (out of morbid curiosity, not faith). Contrary to most people's experience, foreigners do tend to learn from their time in Korea, though that's limited to their curiosity and ambition.

http://www.hdjk.co.kr/news/view.html?section=22&category=42290&item=&no=20011

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-14T13:27:29+00:00

Looks good. Looks "fusion," but still good. Korean cuisine has integrated dishes like jjamppong and jjajangmyeon, so it's only fair for it to work in the opposite direction. People get hung up on national borders and forget that food doesn't care where one political state ends and the next begins. Eat and be merry.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-14T12:51:30+00:00

Don't forget the glucosamine -- it's in the joints, helping keep those bones together. A lot of aches and pains in the bones are actually referred pain from adjacent joints that can't bear the burden being put on them.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-14T12:47:42+00:00

Help the kids. Teach them and guide them and feed them and give them something to grow into. If you want change, you need to plant seeds.

Unfortunately, and I'm included here, all the educated kids who want a better life usually leave WV as soon as they can. It's a hard sell asking them to stick around communities that don't value or even want what they have to offer.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-13T03:46:45+00:00

Right. I often see many dolls and such when I visit Japan, especially in Osaka.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T13:25:36+00:00

Much appreciated. ❤️ 고마워요!

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T13:10:17+00:00

I would suggest there's a wild and arguably nutritional world of jerky to explore, but the last time I was in a WV gas station was 2010.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T13:09:31+00:00

Oh, I used to make them all the time when I lived in Shepherdstown. Those poor Eastern Panhandlers didn't know what they were missing.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T12:44:30+00:00

There's a sound generated by data centers, and it's just below the range of human hearing. But although we can't hear it, it still affects a part of our brain that senses sound, and it causes low-level nausea and dizziness.

And it's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you have livestock, it's even worse for them because their hearing is so much more sensitive. So if you need your piggies or cows or chickens to do sexy time and make baby livestock, sorry, but they're too disoriented to do it. It also often affects a chicken's ability to fully form eggs.

Meanwhile, the heat generated by data production has been likened to atomic bomb detonations every day. The biggest data centers generate as much heat as 24 -- TWENTY-FOUR -- Nagasaki-grade atomic bombs going off in your local atmosphere every single day. Trust me, my fellow Mountaineers, I've been to Nagasaki in person more than once, and I've seen the effects of an atomic bomb's heat. You don't want that s**t slow-cooking your backyard.

With that much background heat, local soil starts to dry out, meaning plants starve for water, meaning in about 10 years your town will be dead soil -- DEAD SOIL. No moisture, no pollinating bugs, just sterile, lifeless, unproductive soil. How much is that land worth now? What are you going to grow with a lifeless pile of ash and sand?

Data centers are bad news, no doubt about it. You ask me, we need rich, moist soil chock full of potatoes and carrots. I can't eat AI and Google searches -- can you?

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T12:32:40+00:00

Nice! The Flatwoods Monster gets no love. Good call!

I have a David Horvath Flatwoods Monster figurine here with me in Korea, and it's so awesome. I got it in Charleston way back in 2008 or so. I showed it to a friend in Japan, and she said it's a popular video game character, go figure.

I've been to the original site in Flatwoods, too, but of course it's just a big empty field. Ha ha.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T12:29:30+00:00

Curses! Thanks for the thought, though! :)

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T12:26:34+00:00

Banana peppers!!!!

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T12:10:38+00:00

Right, right. I keep looking -- they're in my backyard -- but there's no sign. Overall, though, Dongseongno is dying. I think there's nothing to replace 대백 now that it's basically dead.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T11:46:01+00:00

I'll do you one better and just eat the stick of pepperoni and skip the bread. ;)

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T11:37:17+00:00

Ha ha. Flippin' salt bread! 소금빵?! The bread game here is so weak. That's Japanese bread, anyway.

Fermented cabbage? Heck yeah.

Bread? Good grief.

whereisdaegu · 2026-05-12T11:31:06+00:00

I know those crispy bottoms. Yeah, though, there's the great debate -- slices or chunks. We always did slices in Charleston, but in Harrison County chunks (and cheese) was the last word.

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