To the person who came to my web site via the above search: Good luck.
In my personal experience, resources of that nature were not easy to find, and when discovered, were perhaps not what I would have chosen. Beggars can’t be choosers, so one makes do. In the event, resources back home weren’t much better, so perhaps the situation is not as dire as I make it sound.
Eleven years later, I can’t tell you what’s out there. We found our counselors through an organization called FOCUS (Foreigners’ Community Service). They have a defunct web site and two telephone numbers (797-8212 or 798-7529, in Seoul) that may or may not work. If you don’t live in Seoul, you may have to get creative.
We had two different counselors. One was the expat wife of an expat Ford executive who had some sort of counseling credentials (Canadian, I think), and we met in her home. The other was a professor (possibly Korean-American) at Sogang University, and we had sessions both at her home and her office. I think she was a psychologist. I am vague on several of these details, because I don’t remember them well. FOCUS counseling services were offered on a sliding scale based on income.
If you’re a reader who lives in Korea and knows of other resources, please leave them in comments. And if you’re someone who needs these services, don’t be afraid to ask. Relationship and mental health issues exist everywhere and may even be exacerbated by expat life. We all need a little help sometimes.
Posted by kangmi on November 20, 2006 at 6:45 AM3 comments
From The Hankyoreh:
South Korea has introduced a new personal identification number system for use on the Internet, a move intended to block personal data theft prevalent in cyberspace, a government ministry said Monday.
Under a set of guidelines by the Ministry of Information and Communication, the new identification numbers called “i-PIN” will be available on the Internet starting Monday, along with the existing “citizen registration numbers.”
i-PIN stands for Internet personal identification number.
Internet users will be allowed to choose either i-PIN or their registration numbers to confirm their identity on Internet sites.
No word on whether it will solve the online registration problem we non-Korean citizens experience.
Posted by kangmi on October 4, 2006 at 11:12 AM0 comments
열여덟 스물아홉, episode 3, 37:45.
Posted by kangmi on March 18, 2005 at 9:13 AM1 comments
In my search for A Korean Grammar on Semantic-Pragmatic Principles, I have learned the meaning of 절판.
“죄송합니다. 이 책은 절판 되었습니다.”
But I’m still hoping to find a copy.
Posted by kangmi on February 20, 2005 at 3:05 AM0 comments
David Hasenick has created a beautiful collection of Korea photography. See it here. If you’re patient, you’ll see some of it here on kangmi soon.
Posted by kangmi on February 6, 2005 at 7:04 PM0 comments
오징어 먹었어요.
Not on purpose, of course (for those of you who know me). But it wasn’t as bad as I expected.
In my area, there are three restaurants that serve Korean food. One of them advertises itself as serving Korean food. The food isn’t terrible, but it’s not Korean, either.
Another is a Japanese restaurant owned by Koreans who list a few Korean items on their menu. It’s all right, but I missed the egg in my 순두부 last week.
Today I decided it was high time to visit the Seoul Garden Restaurant ("with a licensed Korean chef"), a restaurant that opened this past summer. It serves both Korean and Japanese food. The location wasn’t promising, as it’s located in what may have been the restaurant section of a rundown motel. The menu, however, was. I had just been telling 인선 that I hadn’t eaten 돌솥 비빔밥 since I left Korea, and there it was.
Like most Korean food I’ve eaten here, it wasn’t quite what I expected. It was plain rice served with soup, a whole fish, and an abundance of 반잔. The deep-fried noodles were unfamiliar, but so was the fish staring at me, and I was eating that. Well, I was eating the deep-fried noodles, too, which were chewier than they looked, but they were good. It wasn’t until I sensed a slight fishy taste that a light began to glow, and I asked my waiter what it was. “Dried squid,” he said. “오징어?” I asked. “Yes,” he said.
I’m not a vegetarian, but there are many forms of meat that I don’t eat. These days it’s more out of force of long-standing habit and a well-developed aversion to those forms. However, in certain circumstances, I would eat almost anything put in front of me without a peep. 오징어 joins calamari and prosciutto as meats that I would not normally eat, but which I no longer fear (truthfully, prosciutto should never be feared, but embraced).
Posted by kangmi on November 12, 2004 at 8:58 PM6 comments
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