Thursday, July 26, 2007


One of my biggest pet-peeves about South Korea blogs is when the blogger’s contract ends and she/he disappears.

You occasionally check the blog from time to time to see if anything is new, but the same old pictures of random people drinking Cass and eating fried chicken in the snow keep popping up.

Then you check your window (given that you’re in the Northern hemisphere) to make sure that the leaves are still green and the thermostat is still above freezing.

So, this is our final post and it doesn’t even come from South, Korea. We’ve landed in Ann Arbor, Michigan where there are still a lot of Koreans, but considerably less cabbage.

My gut reaction is that it’s nice to be back, but the Mid-West to me is still like going to another country. Norms are a little different, but I can understand what people are saying...for the most part.

The pace of life here is a lot slower than in Seoul, and that will be something that it takes time to get used to. There’s at least one Noraebang in Ann Arbor, otherwise Karaoke is open bar style.

It’s one thing to enjoy you and your friends’ singing—it’s quite another to listen to a love struck couple bellow Nikki French’s “Turn Around” into the entire sports bar.

Thanks for reading,

James & Sarah

17 comments:

Kimberly said...

Hi,

Not sure if you'll get this and sorry to do this in a comment, but I didn't see an email address for you anywhere on the site. I'm a former native English teacher (lived and worked in Korea for two years) who is now a Master's student at the University of Glasgow. The reason that I'm writing to you is that I'm hoping that you would be willing to complete a questionnaire that forms part of the research I am conducting for my MSc Information Management & Preservation dissertation.

My dissertation will examine the role of blogs in helping to form and shape a sense of community identity amongst expats living in South Korea. This is being done in order to determine the archival value of these blogs and examine if, and how, they should be preserved. I realise that you no longer live in Korea or update your blog, but this means that I am particularly interested to hear your views, since among the issues that I'm examining is what happens to Korea-related blogs when their authors leave Korea or stop updating.

Basically, I believe that today’s archives are rife with personal diaries and papers which allow us a glimpse into the past. But, what of the archives of the future? How many people today actually keep a pen and paper journal or write letters home? More and more native English teachers living in Korea have replaced diaries and letters home with blogs. Furthermore, due to the nature of the native English teacher community in Korea, much of the information about this community can only be found on the Internet on sites such as blogs (like yours). Therefore, a failure to preserve blogs may create a black hole of information for future generations of archives users.

You can read more about my project as well as fill out my questionnaire by visiting http://2009msc.wordpress.com I’d really appreciate it if you could find the time to complete the questionnaire.

Thank you,
Kimberly.

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