Monday, December 31, 2012

My Favorite Korean Songs of 2012

10. MBLAQ-"This is War"



9. Wonder Girls-"The DJ is Mine"


8. Super Junior-"Spy"


7. Miss A-"I Don't Need a Man"


6. UKISS-"Believe"


5. UKISS-"Stop Girl"


4. Naul-"Memory of the Wind"


3. Fat Cat-"Is Being Pretty Everything?"


2. Phantom-"Burning"


1. Psy-"Gangnam Style"

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Music Video: Girls Generation "Dancing Queen"

The song was recorded in 2008 as a remake of "Mercy" by Duffy.

Girls Generation's new album, "I Got a Boy" will be released on January 1, 2013.


Saturday, December 22, 2012

Psy's "Gangnam Style" reaches 1 Billion Views

"Gangnam Style" has reached 1 billion views on YouTube! It is the first video to reach 1 billion views!


Thursday, December 20, 2012

The New South Korean president is......

December 19 was election day in South Korea. The polls were open from 6am to 6pm KST.

The new President is Park Geun-hye. She is the first woman President in South Korea. She received 51.6% of the vote. Moon Jae-in received 48% of the votes.

The voter turnout was 75.8% which was the highest turnout in the past 15 years. The voter turnout in 1997 was 80.7%. The turnout of the last election in 2007 was 63%.

The new President takes office on Febuary 25, 2013 for a 5 year term.

Thinking about Korea

I am always thinking of new ideas for my visit in 2014. I have so many ideas and I know I'll have to trim that list down a lot. Its going to be so hard to make the list shorter because there are so many wonderful things about Korea. My trip will mostly focus on Seoul. I won't have much time to do a lot of traveling around the country. If I could take a month of vacation then I'd definitely visit all 8 provinces. A month of vacation isn't realistic! I wish I could go every year, but international flights are very expensive!

I hope my trip becomes a reality. I still have a at least a year to plan this trip. I wish the airfare wasn't so expensive. Hopefully I'll have a good job and be able to afford the trip.

I miss Korea so much. I have so many memories. My time there was a real adventure. I know I complained a lot on my blog, but that was all related to my job. It was a good job most of the time. Sometimes it was really frustrating. I fell in love with the country, the culture, the dramas, and music. I also discovered that I was into Korean men.

 I feel like I wasted so much time. I didn't use my time there to the fullest. There were so many things that I didn't get to see and places I didn't get to visit. I should have been out doing something every weekend, but sometimes all I wanted to do was relax and sleep in.

I don't understand why I didn't buy a video camera while I was there. I had plenty of money. I did blog everyday, but a video is more entertaining. I could have had tons of footage for my YouTube channel and I wouldn't have to try to fit in a year's worth of filming in a one week trip. I don't get a ton of views to my channel but making videos makes me happy. My video making desire didn't start until after I returned from Korea. I took a few videos while I was there in 2011, but I don't know why I didn't make more. Maybe it was because I was so miserable on my last trip.