Jeff from Whatever That Means... and Jon Dunbar (his legit name)
99 Anger album release show:
~Music Brings Me Here~
Pooh with Korean hard liquor (??)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday Night
Stuff and Things from Saturday
Jeff from Whatever That Means... and Jon Dunbar (his legit name)
99 Anger album release show:
~Music Brings Me Here~
Pooh with Korean hard liquor (??)
Jeff from Whatever That Means... and Jon Dunbar (his legit name)
99 Anger album release show:
~Music Brings Me Here~
Pooh with Korean hard liquor (??)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Hardcore Shows, Baseball, Gotta Love Life~
So you may have noticed that I'm sort of delayed on posting again. So here are a lot of pictures covering one and a half crazy weeks. Last weekend, the American hardcore band, Terror, came to Seoul. This was a big deal for the entire Korean punk scene, as they only get a few American bands to stop over in a year. I didn't take many good pictures of this whole event, so for 'real' photographers' photos of these events, check out two local favorites:
Daehanmindecline: http://www.daehanmindecline.com/archive/20090918d.html
MadBean: http://www.madbean.net/bbs/view.php?id=review&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=3
It was a great weekend of shows, karaoke, Korean barbecue, and new friends in the local punk scene.
I also went to a baseball game between the DooSan Bears and the Lotte/Busan Giants with June and MiJeong. Baseball is very different here because the teams are not representative of a city, but are sponsored by a company. So every game usually has a 1/2-1/2 split of fans for each team, making for a great cheering atmosphere. All cheering is lead by a section leader. I had to learn a lot of new songs and chants. They also cheer the name of each player who is up to bat, while they are batting, so songs would be different rhythms of things such as "Kim Hyun Soo, Homerun!" or "Pak Dong Ju hit that ball!". It was a great experience.
I'm having a great time. Nuff' said.
Here are pics.
Susie (Another WI student) and I show WI Pride.
Susie and her Ewha buddy, "Kyu" (Susie Q.), in Sinchon's playground area.
Ewhaians out for a friend's bday.
Sinchon
MiJeong and June after the game going the other way on the subway.
The Lotte Giants are the only team centered on a specific city (Busan) so here the fans are holding up their lighters while singing a folk song about their lovely sea-side home. :D
Spirit Sticks. These baseball games are loud!
June and MiJeong. MiJeong is from Busan, but because of her love for June, she was a traitor and cheered for DooSan with June and I. :D
Traitor.
Cheerleaders for baseball?
June Park. (Not really)
Snacks for a Korean baseball game include dried squid jerky, udon noodle soup, and kimbab (Korean sushi rolls). KFC was also a big sponsor inside the stadium.
Jamsil Stadium (once used as part of the 1988 Seoul Olympics).
Cliff and Jani, local hardcore kids, Karaoke after the shows.
Ki Seok Seo, lead singer of the Geeks singing Korean pop Songs
Cliff (show organizer) and Ki Seok enjoying the return of their venue rental deposit.
After shows in the US, it's Taco Bell or pancakes, here, it's Korean barbecue. ^^
(Notice Ki Seok being adorable for the two random Korean-Japanese girls that stumbled into the venue as we were leaving, they would follow us the entire night. I never knew their names or why they followed Ki. He's just a teddybear. )
The Geeks
The Geeks
This photo sucks, but look at what the lighting did.
Things We Say mid-two-step.
Same
Daehanmindecline: http://www.daehanmindecline.com/archive/20090918d.html
MadBean: http://www.madbean.net/bbs/view.php?id=review&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=3
It was a great weekend of shows, karaoke, Korean barbecue, and new friends in the local punk scene.
I also went to a baseball game between the DooSan Bears and the Lotte/Busan Giants with June and MiJeong. Baseball is very different here because the teams are not representative of a city, but are sponsored by a company. So every game usually has a 1/2-1/2 split of fans for each team, making for a great cheering atmosphere. All cheering is lead by a section leader. I had to learn a lot of new songs and chants. They also cheer the name of each player who is up to bat, while they are batting, so songs would be different rhythms of things such as "Kim Hyun Soo, Homerun!" or "Pak Dong Ju hit that ball!". It was a great experience.
I'm having a great time. Nuff' said.
Here are pics.
Susie (Another WI student) and I show WI Pride.
Susie and her Ewha buddy, "Kyu" (Susie Q.), in Sinchon's playground area.
Ewhaians out for a friend's bday.
Sinchon
MiJeong and June after the game going the other way on the subway.
The Lotte Giants are the only team centered on a specific city (Busan) so here the fans are holding up their lighters while singing a folk song about their lovely sea-side home. :D
Spirit Sticks. These baseball games are loud!
June and MiJeong. MiJeong is from Busan, but because of her love for June, she was a traitor and cheered for DooSan with June and I. :D
Traitor.
Cheerleaders for baseball?
June Park. (Not really)
Snacks for a Korean baseball game include dried squid jerky, udon noodle soup, and kimbab (Korean sushi rolls). KFC was also a big sponsor inside the stadium.
Jamsil Stadium (once used as part of the 1988 Seoul Olympics).
This stadium is shared by the DooSan bears and the LG Twins.
The following are the Hardcore show photos (somehow I uploaded this whole weekend in reverse, so just be aware of that as you go backwards through this amazing night).
The following are the Hardcore show photos (somehow I uploaded this whole weekend in reverse, so just be aware of that as you go backwards through this amazing night).
Cliff and Jani, local hardcore kids, Karaoke after the shows.
Ki Seok Seo, lead singer of the Geeks singing Korean pop Songs
Cliff (show organizer) and Ki Seok enjoying the return of their venue rental deposit.
After shows in the US, it's Taco Bell or pancakes, here, it's Korean barbecue. ^^
(Notice Ki Seok being adorable for the two random Korean-Japanese girls that stumbled into the venue as we were leaving, they would follow us the entire night. I never knew their names or why they followed Ki. He's just a teddybear. )
The Geeks
The Geeks
So these are from the Terror show, much larger venue, over 200 people, amazing.
This photo sucks, but look at what the lighting did.
Things We Say mid-two-step.
Same
So I'm having a great time everybody. I miss you all. Hope you enjoy some of the pics. I'll have more tomorrow.
Have a good one~
James
P.S. It's starting to be Fall here too! But I really miss the clean WI air (my tonsils don't like pollution) and Devil's Lake in Fall colors. :( Next week I might go South with MiJin's family to Gwangju for their Korean Thanksgiving ancestor rituals. The countryside is beautiful down there, I'll be sure to take lots of photos (all you guys get to see is gritty Seoul and the inside of venues :( )
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Pics Before A Whole Mess of Pics
With the Terror/The Geeks/No Turning Back show tomorrow night and the DooSan baseball game on Sunday, I didn't want some pictures I took to get swallowed up and go unseen.
Some pics from around the Ewha/Sinchon area where I live, including Donginmun (Independence Gate), where I met the curator of the colonial prison I'm researching.
There's also a nice one from my going away party!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Scenes of Ewha
Hello All!
I survived the first full week of classes (barely). When they say "Intensive Korean"...they mean it. Along with that I have three other classes all combined for a full load of 18 credits. As a reflection of my crazy week, I only have some pictures from around my campus! :D I'll just take this as a blessing in disguise that I can show all my friends and loved ones my lovely Ewha Campus.
But! No worries. This weekend I'm going to a concert on Friday and to a Korean Baseball League game on Saturday with June! His favorite team, the DooSan Bears, are playing, and then on Saturday, YuJin's taking me to tour Kyeongbokgun (the palace of the Choseon Dynasty). I can't wait!
The view from the International House rooftop garden.
~We'd pray to find our place. Take flight to Eastern skies, and when the winds change, we'll be blown back here---I'll see you when the sun sets.~
From the top of the mountain that Ewha sits on looking South over Seoul (it's just one tiny tiny part that you can see before the haze and smog obscure the view).
The Ewha Campus Center at night. (Looks peaceful at night, but it's all chattering and high heels in this dugout during the day*)
Little streets in front of Ewha.
One of the older buildings at Ewha. The university was founded by Presbyterian missionaries.
Just on the skirt of this crazy Sinchon area, you can see a Buddhist temple and the mountains in the distance.
I survived the first full week of classes (barely). When they say "Intensive Korean"...they mean it. Along with that I have three other classes all combined for a full load of 18 credits. As a reflection of my crazy week, I only have some pictures from around my campus! :D I'll just take this as a blessing in disguise that I can show all my friends and loved ones my lovely Ewha Campus.
But! No worries. This weekend I'm going to a concert on Friday and to a Korean Baseball League game on Saturday with June! His favorite team, the DooSan Bears, are playing, and then on Saturday, YuJin's taking me to tour Kyeongbokgun (the palace of the Choseon Dynasty). I can't wait!
The view from the International House rooftop garden.
~We'd pray to find our place. Take flight to Eastern skies, and when the winds change, we'll be blown back here---I'll see you when the sun sets.~
From the top of the mountain that Ewha sits on looking South over Seoul (it's just one tiny tiny part that you can see before the haze and smog obscure the view).
The Ewha Campus Center at night. (Looks peaceful at night, but it's all chattering and high heels in this dugout during the day*)
Little streets in front of Ewha.
One of the older buildings at Ewha. The university was founded by Presbyterian missionaries.
View from the 14th floor of the International Education Building.
Just on the skirt of this crazy Sinchon area, you can see a Buddhist temple and the mountains in the distance.
So that's the lovely Ewha, I'm sure it's going to get very beautiful when the colors start changing. When MiJin's done with her crazy stressful weeks of gallery-showing preparation, we might take a trip into the countryside (I can tell living in the city will stress me out eventually). Thinking of that makes me miss the WI wilderness...and on a related note...
My Dad's cousin, Jon Hillmer, is in the running for a Field and Stream "Heroes of Conservation" Award. You can see the Webisodes at this link. His feature is episode 9 and 10. I'm very proud of 'Cousin Jon' and he's following very closely in his father's footsteps by showing youngsters the beauty of Wisconsin. Along with my father and grandfather, Jon was one of the people that taught me everything I know about the outdoors and keeping it a place to enjoy for all time. Way to go Jon!
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