"random fact #23: you are not allowed to swim ANYWHERE in korea without wearing a swim cap. it’s really too bad since koreans in a bathing suit would otherwise have a much more pleasing effect."
for the first sixteen years of my life, the only korean i ever knew was allison oh, a girl that grew up with me during the early years of elementary school. the number of koreans i was exposed to in advertising/ the media also amounted to probably ONE. i had wrongfully concluded as high schooler that most asians were ugly. this is sad because a/ i’m asian and b/ growing up in santa fe, new mexico conditioned me to think chola bangs and brown lip liner was the real definition of beauty. twisted?!
anyway, HOT asian chick ad #1. series to come. :)
i’m really sorry this video is even on this blog. but this happens to be the first song i heard in taipei, and when i went to korea, it all made sense. this is ALL they played!!! and i hate that it got stuck in my head. i’ve been surrounded by people with actual good taste in music recently, and this doesn’t cut it. but it does remind me of seoul. and my 13 year old cousin’s ringtone.
PS.
me: why do they require so many boys in the same band?!
yoorie: because none of them are hot.
boy bands are raging in korea.
at least korean entertainment is a step above taiwanese. their media content is far superior as is their production quality - music, television (soap operas, etc.) i will have to get into the mindlessness of taiwanese media at a later time.
and a street scene by day.
this is still SEOUL, KOREA PS. i should be able to discern the nuances between taipei markets and seoul ones, but really, it looks a lot the same / it’s still hard to tell if it weren’t for the street signs. to me. i guess i would just say seoul is cleaner, more spacious, a tad more renovated, and the people are not as casually dressed as they are in taipei.
not that i’m trying to generalize, maybe just highlight, but here : seoul by night.
my favorite painting at the national museum, seoul #2.
i ranted about how korean museums should only contain korean things. these are clearly japanese. i like them. first > hypocrisy. next > fangirlism.
