Cut!!

I will never again think the coolest thing about Kumdo / Kendo is the cool black dobok. Even though I still think the dobok is very cool I must admit that the chopping things clean in half just edges it for me.

Park Ji-Sung, is he really Korean?

Park Ji sung, or Ji as he is sometimes known, is either changing or he has completed the process and is a changed man. He is going through (or gone through) that strange process that Koreans sometimes go through. He is becoming a member of the international community.

Park Ji-Sung doesn't see black and white, us and them, he doesn't look down on others because they have different skin colour or are from another part of Asia. Park Ji-Sung is a fully paid up member of what most of us call, the real world. How do I know this? Well there is evidence on the internet. MBC travelled to the UK, to just outside Manchester (where all the Man Yoo footballers live) to interview Ji, to celebrate the day that the most famous Korean since Yi Sun Shin was born.

And the results were, well I'm not going to say surprising, but they were refreshing. After living in Korea it was refreshing to see a Korean sitting next to a French black man and an Argentine who cannot speak English (or Korean) and it was refreshing to hear the Korean speak Spanish and it was even more refreshing to hear that Korean say in Spanish "Argentina are shit" to Carlos Tevez and all in a jokey, friendly atmosphere. Oh and it was funny to hear him stitch up Patrice Evra at the end of the video.

I really don't like Manchester United. I really, really don't like them but I do like Park Ji-Sung. I don't want to. Every Korean man, woman, child, whether old, young, rich or poor loves him. And I don't want to like him but I do, I really do.

He is funny and he seems to have made friends with other funny people and he seems very down to earth and do you know why that is? It is because he hasn't spent his every waking moment in Korea, preaching about how kim chi cures everything and Japan are bad, in every way, he has been around. He lived in Japan and the Netherlands and now England.

Anyway, watch below and tell the next Korean you meet that although they might love Park Ji-Sung, unless they open their eyes they will never be like him. Love him! They should love him but not for the reasons they think but because he is an international Korean!

Next stop, Ban Ki Moon!!









And after living in Japan he seems like he can speak fluent Japanese too!





Here is an interview Park gave to MOTD, which includes some very difficult questions from a presenter who should have understood that when you use stupid terms and ask difficult questions to someone whose first language isn't English, you might confuse them, even though he does pretty well.

Here is a link to a special interview (well the first part anyway) that he gave, in Manchester to MBC. Notice the nice hand gestures given to the camera by the charming Manchester United fans.


And finally, to be fair to Ji-Sung here is a compilation of some of his goals, not made by me and it is very long but some goals nevertheless.


I did notice that Ji-Sung did use an English profanity a few weeks ago to express his dissatisfaction at not scoring but we don't want anything negative about him on here.

The most important video you will ever see...maybe

Jeonju - The Map

A Google map of Jeonju put together by people who live here.


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Home Cooked Nepali Food

Don't you wish your friends were Nepalese like mine. Don't you?

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