Saturday Lunch

Today I ate at a 'boribap' restaurant (보리밥).  I really like this kind of Korean food: rice and soup (of course) with a nice variety of fresh prepared vegetables:

The beginning of the meal

 Namul: Korean seasoned vegetables

Sujebi: hand-torn noodle soup (here with perilla seeds)

The whole meal

The first time I have eaten rice like this--delicious!

Outdoor Market

Every Friday, near where I live, there is an outdoor market, mostly food but also some other things (kitchen tools, etc.).  Since I hadn't visited it in a long time, I decided to walk there today and buy some fresh tofu, some muk-chae, and some seaweed sprinkles.  Here are the pics:

Sunday Cooking

Fish soup (salmon) and chicken soup:

Yum!

College Entrance Exams

Yesterday--Thursday, November 13th--was the day for Korea's nation-wide college entrance exams.

Here is an interesting article about the tests and their importance/effects (considering that 640,000 students took the tests at the same time on the same day, they are clearly important, enough so to stop Samsung and Korean Air from functioning for a short time):

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141113000861

Fall Colors

Beautiful!

View on North Korea

For a hardline viewpoint on North Korea, read this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/08/opinion/whiton-north-korea-diplomacy/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Penguins

The 'Madagascar Penguins' are my favorite animated characters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI4zp7yeuMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5USLvy_9fcM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpHLNPsUY9c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_kfWUCFDQ