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Consider the fattiest cuts of bacon, three, no, four times thicker than normal, frying on a pan roasting with onions and garlic. As they cook, fat oozes out of the meat, self-greasing the pan. The smell of pork wafts through the air into your clothes and hair. You flip and cut these lardy strips of meat [ READ MORE ]
The Korean World Cup campaign ended too quickly. They were the better team in their final game, dominating pressure and ball possession, but they didn’t have the finish to put Uruguay away. Too bad, it was fun while it lasted. Now a red shirt is just a red shirt and the Dae Han Min Guk (Republic [ READ MORE ]
The World Cup Stadia, remnants of 2002 when South Korea hosted the World Cup with Japan, showed each Korean game to wide audiences — even for the one 3am start against Nigeria. The atmosphere was electric, but, perhaps strangely, it fell short of the experience watching the game in a tightly packed bar. Still, it was worth [ READ MORE ]
Unjusa is the land of 1000 buddha statues and 1000 pagoda structures. It is also the site of the famous and very large “lying down Buddha”. Legend has it that workers of this unfinished statue were called back to heaven by the cock of a rooster before it could be erected. I’m not so sure about [ READ MORE ]
Authors Note: This entry includes a slide show – a new feature to our website. It has been said that you can’t polish a turd. Generally this is an acceptable, perhaps nearly universal axiom. However, I would argue that if you put a turd amongst a bunch of cherry blossoms the turd would start looking pretty [ READ MORE ]