Posts Tagged as ‘Sogang’

28 January 2009

나: 새해 복 많이 받으세요!
철봉: 새해 복 많이 받아라! 어젯밤에 TV를 보면서 필립 생각 났어.
나: 그래?
철봉: 응. 뭐더라? 람본가?
나: 람보라구?
철봉: 응. 필림 씨는 우리 반 람보다!
헐.

17 November 2008

晩秋에

The weekend of my graduation, November 13-16.

7 September 2008

高延戰

Starting school this week was great. The campus is crowded again with Sogang students in the first days of their fall terms and the classroom atmosphere is friendly and fast-paced. In the last days of the summer, I started having dreams in which I was walking along Wall and High Streets on the way to [...]

1 September 2008

여름이 끝나기 전에

The weather is still warm and clear. But as I left Busan, crews were loading the umbrellas onto trucks, and as I pulled into Seoul, the bands outside city hall announced their last numbers. There’s no running from it: back to school.

30 June 2008

學無止境

I spent the first part of the week with friends and Tass. On Monday, I had lunch and coffee with Mayumi, a friend from KLEC last summer who is now studying as a Broadcast Journalism freshman at Sogang. After that I headed over to Yongsan to pick up a card phone for my sister. The [...]

15 June 2008

사랑하면 춤을 춰라!

June 8, 13, 14, 2008.
Soon after arriving in Seoul, I met up with my friend Keum from last year’s SK Telecom trip. Keum has been working here in Korea for over a year as the international manager for two productions, which has him coordinating logistics around the world. And he’s my age.
Keum invited Masato and [...]

14 June 2008

韓牛

It’s a Thursday night and the light is dusty, dusky here in Sinchon as my second week at Sogang wraps up. Across the way, nervous looking students are gulping down banchan (반찬) faster than usual as they ready themselves for the last of their exams, and the air is filled with light from the noraebangs [...]

17 July 2007

By Which I Meant More Often Than Not

This is the jelly-filled-self-resurrecting-exploding golden pig. For more, see Kaila’s blog.
Constitution Day has finally given me some time to turn out my pockets into real entries.
(Just as I finished that sentence, Jane came running down the hall with the news that she’d won the SK Telecom “Introducing Korean Culture in the [...]

19 June 2007

Since Arriving/ From Now, More Often

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The sun was beating down this afternoon on SD Vamos, the Sogang Dae Korean Language Education Center (KLEC) soccer club, and the wheaty dust of the undongjang had already given our team, the dark shirts, spots and stripes on its way up from our kicks. After chasing a player chasing a ball [...]