"21st Century Family" (21세기가족) download link

I'm usually not a fan of K-drama, but for this I made an exception."21st Century Family" (Korean title: 21세기 가족) is basically a Korean version of ABC's "Modern Family" and pretty funny. It features that wild old guy with the nice (fake) hair from those health insurance ads as the Jay (wealthy, conservative, cranky grandpa figure) and enough real humor to keep you interested. Of course there's the hot stay-at-home mom (aka Claire) with the childish...

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The eeriness of the Sewol ferry's name (세월)

The ferry that recently sunk in Korea was named Sewol, or 세월 in Korean. I had not thought much about this until a Korean friend pointed out how creepy a name it is, given the circumstances.세월 literally means "time" but with a connotation of its movement; i.e. the passing of time. I've tried to come up with a good translation. Let's look at some examples from Naver and Google:From Naver:세월 (歲月)- Time세월이 가는지 오는지도 모르다 (무사태평하다) be unaware of the passing...

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Yellow ribbon to support Sewol ferry disaster families & victims

You may have noticed this image appearing as Koreans' KakaoTalk or Facebook profile pictures recently:This is a "Yellow Ribbon Campaign" (노란리본 or 노란리본 달기). The text says 하나의 작은 움직임이 큰 기적을 which means something like:One's smallest movements can make a huge wonder, or The smallest steps can have a huge impact, orIf we all do a little, we can do a lot, or The littlest things can make the biggest difference, etc.It's been adopted as a semi-official badge...

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Naver's English <> Korean Translator now available

Naver has released a Translation program that appears very similar to Google Translate. It operates, much as Naver Dictionary, as a mobile-friendly website at this link:http://m.translate.naver.comHere's what it looks like on my phone: Here it is in operation: You can see that it translates in the "card" style Google now uses. It can pronounce the words, has a "conversational" feature where the translation is displayed full-screen (again, much like...

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RSS feeds from Daum Cafes

It sometimes isn't obvious, but most Daum Cafes have RSS feeds available, which follow this format:Homepage:http://cafe.daum.net/CAFENAMERSS feed: http://cafe.daum.net/xml/rss/CAFEN...

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Google Maps Pokemon found in Korea

Today for April Fool's Day, Google Maps had a Pokemon challenge. As best I could find, there were two Pokemon to be found in Korea.The first, which I found at Gangnam District Office in Seoul (map link), was Raichu. In my excitement to capture him, I only took a screen cap after he'd been caught: The second was Luxray, which I found while zooming around Busan. He was chilling in a park next to a statue of 송상현 (map link). I tried this on...

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