Irreverance

Over at Fuck You, Penguin, there's a pretty funny post about South Korea and puppies. Read it (and the comments) here.

Singing highway

I would love to know where this is, if anyone has that information. (The clip looks dated, but it has to be from the last two or three years. It was posted on You Tube in 2007.)

Tigers coming back, but not in South Korea

Robert Neff posted this first over at the Marmot's Hole. But I'm too fond of tigers not to give them as much hype on the blogosphere as I can.

It’s been decades since anyone has seen a tiger in South Korea. The final tiger was captured either in 1922 or in 1944 on the southern tip of the peninsula, depending on whom you ask. But in some places, their ghosts still cast shadows across the landscape. Ribbons of morning mist cut into deep valleys, setting apart the dark mountain ridges one after another like black stripes across the skin of the land; bears, the tiger’s partner in Korea’s creation myth, still wander in some mountains; and autumn’s tawny, dappled hillsides make it especially easy–and slightly unsettling–to imagine the tiger’s presence.

Read the rest of the article here.

You are what you do

I saw the following on Saturday at the Seoul Arts Center, when attending a traditional musical. It was written on the back of a photograph at the Charles Eames exhibit. My career has been the subject of much of my recent thinking. From #010:

"Don't take a job with whose objective you do not agree and don't take a job as a stepping-stone to something else...By following these guidelines, you have a chance of bringing your entire experience to the jobs you do and avoiding a lot of misery."
-- Eames