Mainstream Love

In a country where you'd most probably think people would have more apprehensions in such public displays of affection given such purist history and conservative values, you’d then smile and give credit to how Koreans can be their creative selves in mainstreaming this so called couple love. Oooh yeah, baby!

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The Sunday Dress Culture

I have never really been the great Catholic devotee, but having been raised by spiritually-rooted parents and sent to an all-girls school that had to answer short, weekly quizzes about the Holy Bible, I don’t think it would surprise anyone if I show even the slightest effect of the Catholic influence in me.

And one great practice, you ask? Sporting a dress for the mass-- especially on an Easter Sunday. Whoot whoo!

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On Ceramics and Three-Headed Eagles

A friend dragged me into this informal Korean Language class that he said he randomly caught online, and I must say that this has a more “multi-cultural” feel compared to the one that I have been attending in Hyehwa every Sunday. Most of the students in this one-and-a-half hour class in Sookmyung are Westerners and Middle Easterners. Taller creatures, yes they all are to me. Haha! It is also informal in a sense that all I get every week are a few sheets of paper that has the week’s lessons, compared to the textbook that I have to bring every Sunday to my class in Hyehwa. One thing with the informal class though, is I get stamps every time I attend a session, which, if I reach ten, will get me a gift! Similar to drinking much, much coffee at Dunkin Donuts for the stamps, to eventually get a free cup after a dozen! Teehee.

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