Monday, November 1, 2010
Seoul subway dancer
Out and about in Seoul
There are places in here where it's easy to forget you're in a city at all. Check out the size of these fields ... and there are quite a few of them, with people walking, biking and jogging all over the place. There are also random sculptures from artists around the world, who were invited to submit them for the Olympic games of 1988.
Earlier in the day, I took a walk up Inwang mountain - it too can make you forget you're in a megalopolis.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Changdeok palace and Jongmyo shrine
Conference on conflicts of interest in medicine
Seoul's version of the Magic Kingdom
Korean BBQ
I am really sorry that I couldn't just load this as a single clip - someday I'll figure out how to load longer clips...
Saturday, October 30, 2010
More clips of live small octopus - in sauce!
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Incidentally, I was out to dinner later on this same day with a doctor from Seoul, who told me they've have at least one case of a person asphyxiating on a tentacle. If you don't chew well, AND if you get this thing down the wrong tube, apparently it can be dangerous.
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The sauce is a pretty basic cocktail-type sauce, with just a little more spice than might be usual. It really seems to perk up the tentacle, though.
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Eating live small octopus_part I
If you are at all squeamish, I advise not watching this one. From what I've heard, a few people were grossed out by the last set of clips I posted on this remarkable lunch. This clip was initially too long to post, so I had to figure out how to cut it into smaller pieces. I finally got my video editor working and I'll post this in segments. In this first section, you can see how tenacious these little critters can be.
(Note to self: check whether tenacious and tentacle come from the same root...)