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	<title>The Walrus Blog &#187; World Famous in Korea</title>
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	<description>Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated.</description>
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		<title>World Famous In Koreatown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final post from Joel McConvey&#8217;s Korea blog, on his return to Toronto, CanadaWinter. I march down the slush-slick sidewalk, at constant risk of wipeout as my neck cranes sideways to ogle the enticing photos of Korean dishes taped up in all the shopfront windows: ddeok bokki, dalk galbi, bibim bap, bulgogi… I linger on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/02/10/world-famous-in-koreatown/</link>
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		<title>Tangerine Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A local saying lists three things Jeju is famous for: wind, stone and women. The island certainly has all three in abundance — the wind, in particular, is strong enough to tear off your scalp. In truth, though, the thing Jeju is most known for in Korea is tangerines (also known as Mandarin oranges). Winter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/01/08/tangerine-dreams/</link>
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		<title>To Beard or not to Beard?</title>
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One of my Korean students&#8217; favourite pastimes is pulling on my beard. These days, I can’t blame them — circumstances having forced me into (temporary) bachelordom for the first time in years, I’ve made it a project to accumulate as much hair on my face as possible, and even I will admit that the resulting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/12/06/to-beard-or-not-to-beard/</link>
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		<title>This Is Not Just A Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exam testing informs every aspect of life in South Korea, and it doesn&#8217;t stop even after you&#8217;ve finished university

Last Thursday was test day in South Korea. Traffic stopped. Airplane schedules were altered. The military was told to shut up. The best rice cakes in the land were distributed, consumed, and most likely thrown up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/11/17/this-is-not-just-a-test/</link>
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		<title>Land of Many Lands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel visits South Korea&#8217;s most disturbing children&#8217;s theme parks in Jeju-do
JEJU-DO, SOUTH KOREA&#8212;Tourists first started coming to Jeju for the natural scenery, the beaches, and the fields of bright yellow canola and violet azalea lining the craters of Halla-san. But its development into a “resort island” has brought a host of other attractions: gardens, galleries, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/21/land-of-many-lands/</link>
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		<title>The End Of The Party?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bestselling novelist Jon Evans&#8217; new blog on the Third World technology revolution, exclusive to walrusmagazine.com
JEJU-DO, SOUTH KOREA &#8212; One very niche effect of the global economic meltdown has been a growing sense, among the ESL community in Korea, that the English teaching gravy train may be either congealing or going off the rails, depending on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/14/the-end-of-the-party/</link>
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		<title>Hello, I&#8217;m Your Food</title>
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JEJU-DO&#8212;Meat-eating in Korea is very literal. Humanity&#8217;s participation in the food chain is much less disguised than it is in North America, where people are happy to pretend their bacon burgers or pork tenderloin medallions are magically synthesized for the express purpose of being delicious. In Korean, the word for pork is dwaeji gogi — [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/09/23/hello-im-your-food/</link>
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		<title>The Next Dear Leader</title>
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This weekend marked the Korean holiday of Chuseok, the rough equivalent of North American Thanksgiving, and although I hate to engage in a bout of schadenfreude during the festive season, I can’t possibly let the story that surfaced while I was in Canada for a couple weeks go unremarked.
I refer, of course, to reports that North Korean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/09/15/the-next-dear-leader/</link>
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		<title>The Invisible Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Olympics are a cesspool of hypocrisy and cold, slimy greed

JEJU-DO, SOUTH KOREA—I&#8217;ve read that the Olympics are producing some thrilling moments this year. I wouldn’t know.
During the lead up to the Games, when China blocked journalists from accessing websites such as Amnesty International and the BBC, there was a huge media kerfuffle about broken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/08/14/the-invisible-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Behind Bars</title>
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JEJU-DO—For many, a big part of the expat experience involves drinking, and especially drinking in bars. Be they mysterious, seedy, elegant or anarchic, watering holes for wanderers have a certain romanticism attached to them, a fuzzy, seductive corona of myth that frames them as hubs of intrigue, sex and adventure.
In spirit if not style, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/08/07/behind-bars/</link>
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