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Blue Belt Grading – May 1-16th, 2001 (Korean Accounts 2000-2001)

On Saturday I met U-chun. During the period of the middle school exams she is working seven days a week and this situation will continue in all hagkwons until May 12th when the exams finish. She works...

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I Would Have Played Hooky But…

I woke this morning (Monday) to find Daegu covered in snow; and heavy clouds, typical of the ones that exist much of the year in the UK, hugging the tops of nearby apartment buildings.  The clouds are...

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A Cake of Soap and Korean Hierarchical Collectivism

A few weeks ago, I was showering in the bathhouse. The soap is always provided which is something which irks many westerners. Somehow, we seem to find pollution everywhere but on ourselves and are...

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