PROBLEM:You're living in Korea, and want to experience the culture by going to the cinema (or theater for you culture-less drones) and watching Korean movies. But of course, you don't speak Korean, and the theater (yes, theater, f*ck you for judging me) websites are a filthy mess of flashing navigation even if you could read Korean. But you know movies are showing with English subtitles along the bottom.How is the lonely expat to know where to watch these films?SOLUTIONS:Frequently check the KOBIZ website (http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/schedule/subtitMovie.jsp)....
Friday, January 24, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
PROBLEM:You bought an awesome Samsung phone in Korea, and want to root it. But because it's the "Korean" version and not a US or International version, it's a pain in the butt. Custom ROMs like CyanogenMod don't seem to work. Fret not: here's the easiest way to do it.SOLUTION:In two words: Tegrak Kernel.Disclaimer: Everything here is my personal opinion. I'm neither an Android developer nor paid endorser. I am just a guy who spent a hellofalotof...
Let's say a Korean co-worker sent you an .hwp file, but you don't have Hangul Word Processor on your computer. You can choose one of these methods to open it:1. Stand-alone HWP Viewer application Windows The 2014 version of Hangul Office seems to no longer offer a stand-alone viewer. However, for now, viewers for previous versions seem to be working well. While no longer officially available (I can't find them on the Hancom website, at least), several other sources have them for downloading such as [here], [here] or [here]. You could...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
PROBLEM:You have an absolutely amazing blog, but no one uses RSS anymore. Google will automatically share your Blogger posts to Google+ but come on, who actually uses that? You could have your Blogger posts sent to Twitter using IFTTT, but why bother? SOLUTION:Ok, well it's sort of a 3rd-party app. The sort answer is: Feedburner.If you enabled "Subscribe via Email" then your blog's feed is already burned.Login to Feedburner -> click blog's title -> "Publicize" -> "Socialize"Here you can connect your Twitter account. Voilà!More here: h...
Monday, January 13, 2014
So, you've managed to get a legal, paid-for copy of your favorite film, and want to share the moment with your Korean-speaking friend. You dim the lights, turn up the speakers, and hit play, only to have the mood ruined by this:Ah yes, the random characters that ruin any 미드 (= 미국 드라마 = American dramas) viewing. Your face now looks like Hotch here. What can you do about this?I can recommend basically two choices:Use GOM Player. Seriously. I know you...
Let's say you want to show your favorite English-language movie or TV show to your Korean girlfriend as a prelude to hot sex friends, but her their English is not very good. So, you want to show it with Korean subtitles. But where can you get them?You basically have two options: (1) GOMPlayer or (2) manually download them yourself.1. GOMPlayerGOMPlayer is by far the most popular desktop video playing software among Koreans. I'll be honest: I've never gotten GOMPlayer to work properly when it comes to its feature of automatically downloading Korean...
Friday, January 10, 2014
Although you hate yourself for it, deep down you know you prefer the absurd, poorly-edited, barely-news "journalism" of The Korea Times to its serious and seriously bland sibling The Korean Herald. But you hate all those damn flashing ads and don't give a poo-poo about the side-by-side Korean translation. There's just got to be an easier way to get your fix of hard-hitting articles like this.There is! Just bookmark the KT's mobile site and browse there instead. Way less ads, no Korean translations, full-size photos, no stupid comments section....
Monday, January 6, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
If, like me, you love:RSS readersThe Seoul PlayersYou'll want to subscribe to their RSS feed. It's not featured promenantly on their website, but you can find it here: http://www.seoulplayers.com/feedUPDATE 1: the website is updated infrequently, and this is reflected in their RSS feed. For more up-to-date news, subscribe to their Facebook page RSS feed, which you can find here:https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=168275539886268Here also is their Twitter feed, if you're into that sort of nonsense:http://www.twitter.com/SeoulPlayersUPDATE...
Let it never be said that Koreans don't understand that trolling is a art.This is a cute comic illustrating how one would make an icon on the desktop that apparently launches Internet Explorer, but actually makes the computer shut down. Nice troll. Also illustrates the sad fact that so many Koreans use IE... Source: https://twitter.com/Dajal01/status/3124020426038517...
Here's a tip: bookmark this search to keep "abreast" of the past month's Korean indecent exposure pics! This link will pull up all the slow-motion animated near-nipple titty shots that lonely netizens have pieced together from the past month's TV viewing. Give it a click, then don't forget to do so once-a-month. Better still, set up a Google Alert for it so you don't miss any near misses. Note that you can also customize the URL if, like me, a month is too long to wait and you need a daily dose (or, a girlfriend).https://www.google.com/search?...
On principle, I don't support tourist travel to North Korea, when its a useless quirky luxury that does nothing to help the impoverished people there and only lines the pockets of a corrupt regime. Nonetheless, the videos shot by VICE while there was fascinating, even if their condescending neo-colonialist attitudes were not. Seriously guys, if you're going to play along with that whole facade, then don't act like you're above their whole game. When you're there, financing that corrupt system; you're not whistleblowers, you're their temporary pawns;...
Thursday, January 2, 2014
PROBLEM: You love RSS and use a reader like Feedly to keep up with your favorite blogs. But, you only want to see posts with a specific label (Blogspot) or posts from a specific search (Wordpress).SOLUTION:It turns out, you can subscribe to specific RSS feeds just for the posts with those particular labels or from those search results.For results from a Wordpress blog search, subscribe to this sort of RSS url:http://blog-or-site-name.com/?s=SEARCHTERM&feed=rss2For results from a specific Blogspot label, subscribe to this sort of RSS url:http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/labelnameCheck...
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