Sunday, July 01, 2007

Random Interesting Photo


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Originally uploaded by megguy44

Can you guess what this is?

We got a good laugh at this....male undies...I took this when we were in the shopping area below Dong-A shopping center.

4 comments:

liz383 said...

Hi Meagan. I have been reading your blog - which has really helped me (just moved to Daegu too so trying to find out about places to go). I noticed that you mentioned your son did taekwondo - do you recommend the dojang and could you give me contact details? Thanks

liz383 said...

Sorry my email is Liz_seaman@hotmail.com

Tere said...

Hi Meagan
Are you still in Korea?
I'm an English teacher in Daegu, and just arrived about a month ago. It has been really difficult adjusting and I'm still pretty homesick, but it's really neat to be here. How did you find it in terms of adjusting to a new country? Are you anxious to go home?
Take care,
Tere

kimbap said...

Hi Meagan,

Sorry to do this in a comment, but I didn't see an email address for you anywhere on the site. I'm a former native English teacher (lived and worked in Korea for two years) who is now a Master's student at the University of Glasgow. The reason that I'm writing to you is that I'm hoping that you would be willing to complete a questionnaire that forms part of the research I am conducting for my MSc Information Management & Preservation dissertation.

My dissertation will examine the role of blogs in helping to form and shape a sense of community identity amongst expats living in South Korea. This is being done in order to determine the archival value of these blogs and examine if, and how, they should be preserved.

Basically, I believe that today’s archives are rife with personal diaries and papers which allow us a glimpse into the past. But, what of the archives of the future? How many people today actually keep a pen and paper journal or write letters home? More and more expats living in Korea have replaced diaries and letters home with blogs. Furthermore, due to the nature of the expat community in Korea, much of the information about this community can only be found on the Internet on sites such as blogs (like yours). Therefore, a failure to preserve blogs may create a black hole of information for future generations of archives users.

You can read more about my project as well as fill out my questionnaire by visiting http://2009msc.wordpress.com. The questions are targeted primarily towards native English teachers, but I'd also like to get some outside perspective so it would be great to hear your thoughts. Some of the issues I'm examining are what happens to blogs when their authors decide to stop writing and if blog authors would be willing to have their blogs digitally preserved. I’d really appreciate it if you could find the time to complete the questionnaire.

(Also, if any or your readers would like to fill out the questionnaire that would be great too!)

Thank you,
Kimberly.