Pohang Fireworks Festival 2011

International Fireworks Competition 2011 - Program (English)

This is the program for the Saturday night show (7/30) at Bukbu Beach. It kicks off at 8:30pm, so get there super early if you want to sit in the sand.

Pohang Fireworks Festival schedule (Korean)

There are also fireworks on Thursday (Bukbu Beach) and Friday (Hyeongsan River Park - next to the POSCO bridge), as well as other festival activities all weekend.

Here's a map with locations of the events.

Here's a map of the Saturday night fireworks location with parking lots marked.

Where's Waldo? Korean poetry.

A beautiful Korean poem, and obviously an ode to "Where's Waldo?"

내 눈엔...
너 만 보인다는말...
난...거짓말이라고 생각해...
내눈엔 많은 사람들이 보여..
그 치만..그 많은 사람들 중에서
" 너만을 찾게돼..."

In my eyes
To say that you're the only one I see
Is a lie in my mind
In my eyes, I see a lot of people
But among all of those people
I search only for you

FBI Background check for Korean visa

The Waygook Effect has an excellent step-by-step guide (for Americans) to getting an FBI background check (with a Department of State Federal Apostille) for renewing an E-2 visa to teach English in Korea.

Check it out here.

Where the sun doesn't shine

My Korean-English phone dictionary often makes me chuckle, with humorous definitions or odd word choices.

It makes me wonder who wrote the examples, and whether they knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote them.

Here are two excellent entries that I stumbled upon recently. I'm still trying to find a good way to work them into my daily routines.

1. 지우다 (ji-oo-da): have a miscarriage; have an abortion; commit feticide; cause [induce] abortion.

그녀는 그의 아이를 가졌으나 지웠다 She received the dear pledge of his love, but she had it aborted.

2. 항문 (hang-moon): the anus; the back passage; the fundament. where the sun doesn't shine.

(I can't even begin to describe why I was looking this up.)

I think the lesson here is this: If you want to avoid an abortion, you should only receive the dear pledge of someone's love where the sun doesn't shine.