What are blogs?
Via an archeology class I am interested in.
I don't think I am a monster. My students don't think they are monsters. Separately, we both think the other is a monster. Communicating by blog feels safer than being trapped together in a room!
Sunday, 31 July 2011
be careful out there: Landmines
UPDATED: I'm updating this on Aug 1, 2011, after a week of nightmarish rain and deadly floods in Seoul and Gangwondo. Mudslides occurred in various mine fields and there are now mines that are not accounted for. We don't know where they are. Friends of mine wonder how the mines could have been tumbled in a multi-ton mess of mud and not have gone off. I do too, but they were first to bring it up. I suppose these are old and unstable mines. Hit them with a hammer enough and something might happen on the twentieth try even if it didn't the previous 19 times.
From Marmot's Hole, The Herald and the Joongang.
Joongang: The areas where the search is focused on include air-defense entrenchments in Mount Umyeon, Gyeonggi and Gangwon, as well as some areas in Yangju, Gyeonggi. The border areas where North Korea’s wooden land mines are often discovered at a time of flooding were also included.
Note that Umyeon is in Seoul, just south of the Han. I lived near Sadang Station and learned the danso at the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Centre just below Umyeon mountain.
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ORIGINAL POST: written June 30
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The Joongang reports that recent storms in North Korea have washed land mines -the exploding kind, if you really didn't know -into South Korea. It appears that two mines drifted in the ocean and landed on South Korean islands, but the one in Gangwondo was carried by a river.
I have heard that mines shifted by storms, floods and mudslides are a problem in South Korea, too. Without being able to recall the specifics, I do recall hearing that some mine fields in South Korea are impassible to South Koreans because the current locations of the mines is unknown.
Arirang is also reporting on the story.
Hmm. the Joongang seems to describe the Gangwon mine as being in a river:
...but Arirang states that it was found at sea:
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I have discussed cross-border flooding before.
From Marmot's Hole, The Herald and the Joongang.
Joongang: The areas where the search is focused on include air-defense entrenchments in Mount Umyeon, Gyeonggi and Gangwon, as well as some areas in Yangju, Gyeonggi. The border areas where North Korea’s wooden land mines are often discovered at a time of flooding were also included.
Note that Umyeon is in Seoul, just south of the Han. I lived near Sadang Station and learned the danso at the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Centre just below Umyeon mountain.
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ORIGINAL POST: written June 30
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The Joongang reports that recent storms in North Korea have washed land mines -the exploding kind, if you really didn't know -into South Korea. It appears that two mines drifted in the ocean and landed on South Korean islands, but the one in Gangwondo was carried by a river.
I have heard that mines shifted by storms, floods and mudslides are a problem in South Korea, too. Without being able to recall the specifics, I do recall hearing that some mine fields in South Korea are impassible to South Koreans because the current locations of the mines is unknown.
Arirang is also reporting on the story.
Hmm. the Joongang seems to describe the Gangwon mine as being in a river:
One mine was found on Gyodong Island, one on Bolum Island in Incheon, and the other in Suip Creek in Yanggu District in Gangwon..
...but Arirang states that it was found at sea:
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Two were discovered in waters off the west coast near Incheon and the other on the east coast off Gangwon Province.-----
I have discussed cross-border flooding before.
Friday, 29 July 2011
Camp Activities: Yoga
Yoga is a great activity and is it offered at this camp. It is good for all ages and both genders, but typically younger men don't care for it.
I am unhappy to see it explained here as "S-line". My writing students should be too young to worry about this. I hope some do take it, but please don't worry about your s-line for a few more years.
PA/ 파 Office!
I don't who these kids are but their teacher must be either the coolest or the worst teacher at GLPS! Note the artful blurring of the student's face.
From 2009, the same trick:
From 2009, the same trick:
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
How much do these kids eat?
This is the second day of classes and only the fourth day since the students arrived. I wonder what is in these boxes. Lots of junk food, I think! Click on any photo to enlarge. If you click on this one, you might notice the great job I did of covering the addresses on the packages.
Monday, 25 July 2011
links and pieces
Again, it is a symbol of peace or war? Can a land where humans literally fear to tread due to land-mines ever be accepted as a positive?
The DMZ has given South Korea fifty years of prosperity and stability; at the same time it has kept the North Korean people out-of-sight and recently (without Russian aid) suffering greatly. The DMZ has given us four kilometres of distance and curtaining so we can't see what is happening, but we are getting reports that beyond the DMZ is a hell-hole and Kim Jong-il is probably thrilled that we are looking at the DMZ and thinking about the DMZ and not beyond it.
The DMZ is a pretty bandaid hiding a hideous wound and we are admiring the bandaid.
The DMZ is a beautiful place and you should go and see it. I wish it were as endangered as the animals it protects. See it, but look around and see more than it. It is a symbol of deliberate, selective blindness.
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silly at work
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government, internet and foreigners
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side walks in Gangneung
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Not me:
water bottle in roof- Philipines
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Bad Student
The DMZ has given South Korea fifty years of prosperity and stability; at the same time it has kept the North Korean people out-of-sight and recently (without Russian aid) suffering greatly. The DMZ has given us four kilometres of distance and curtaining so we can't see what is happening, but we are getting reports that beyond the DMZ is a hell-hole and Kim Jong-il is probably thrilled that we are looking at the DMZ and thinking about the DMZ and not beyond it.
The DMZ is a pretty bandaid hiding a hideous wound and we are admiring the bandaid.
The DMZ is a beautiful place and you should go and see it. I wish it were as endangered as the animals it protects. See it, but look around and see more than it. It is a symbol of deliberate, selective blindness.
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silly at work
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government, internet and foreigners
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side walks in Gangneung
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Not me:
water bottle in roof- Philipines
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Bad Student
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