I’ve just been informed that my footage of last year’s landslide at the EBS studios will be on “Serial Killer Earth,” a series on H2 (I think that means History Channel 2). It will first air on Saturday night (June 30th) and will repeat at different times. Here’s some of my...
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The Kimchi Chronicles website has been unveiled, right before its national premiere. It starts on different times and days, depending on local PBS station scheduling. I know it premieres in Los Angeles on July...
read moreHardtack and Gruel have gone to the studio and recorded a demo of their crowd pleaser Ojjingga–an anti-ode to the smelly leathery dried pub grub that’s dropped in front of drinkers in Korean hofs. You can listen to it here and download it from Reverb Nation....
read moreLast weekend was quite hectic, filled with pleasant surprises, new and old friends, and lots of (thoughts, plans, preparations, and consumption of) food, food, food. It started with Korea Day on Friday, my dear friends’ wedding on Saturday, and finally a day of new yet familiar experiences on Sunday. On Sunday, people from...
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It’s already started, but catch ZenKimchi community and expat favorite Chef Hu-nam Kim of Star Chef on EBS all this week. Here are the details. Show Name: 최고의 요리비결 (Best Cook’s Recipe) – EBS Mon. August 10 – Fri. August 15 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Rebroadcast Saturday, August 16 12:00 –...
read moreLongtime Korea gadfly Michael Breen has posted a great tongue-in-cheek rundown of how Korea will be in 2068. Despite the head-scratching political overtones (“Many, including Korea, have adopted a flat tax regime”) and ironic cheerleading of its published source (“The Coryo Times, formerly known as the Korea...
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I’ve gone back to trying to watch “Shikgaek,” or as the English blogs now call it, “Gourmet.” Call me a curmudgeon. The food porn on the show just ain’t doin’ it for me. They show many things that look pretty, usually in concentric circles, but little of it looks actually tasty–or...
read moreIn the spirit of The Amateur Gourmet, I threw together a musical number for the SeoulPodcast about the beef hysteria. [Click here for lyrics] Trouble in Han River...
read moreI watched the first episode of Shikgaek Tuesday night. I’ll keep watching it for the food, even though it suffers from the same awkwardness and, well, either the show misses some cogent points, or I’m missing them. The Joshing Gnome wrote a post about it: Shikgaek is dumb Shikgaek (식객) is, for those of you who...
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