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I love octopus. I don’t just love them when they’re smuggling coconuts or wrestling with gachapon, they’re one of my favourite foods. I’ve been trying to arrange a sannakji dinner in LA for what seems like years now, ever since I found out about the delicious, still moving, still kind-of-alive octopus dish. Sojung made [...] Ahh, late night drinking. One evening, while in Seoul, following a delicious meal of rice noodle ramen, I was lured out for soju at an izakaya. That’s an iced platter of oysters and sea squirts up there. The oysters weren’t as fresh as they could have been, so we kind of skipped out [...] In which I consume a delicious surprise, a hot dog shaped mochi on a stick, wrapped in odeng and covered with a sweet, hot, sticky sauce. This combined the awesome chewiness of mochi with delicious notes of fish, sweet and chili. This is kind of a waste of a cup, but it [...] On my last full day in Seoul (don’t worry, more food coming, as we’re moving backwards and forwards in time here), we stopped into a Chinese noodle place in Bukchon after a meeting. I think Sojung had a heavy-duty hankering for jajangmyeon. Jajangmyeon consists of white noodles served with a black soybean paste, [...] Things turn up in the strangest places. Possibly the most “Western museum-like” space I visited in Seoul was the Artsonje Center in Bukchon. Three stories of museum, complete with store (with mystery connecting elevator to basement Indian restaurant), with an entry price of $3 or $1.50 for students. I actually like some [...] Details, where god is… I don’t recall this being in all Seoul taxis, but one driver had a little LCD display on his in-dash meter that displayed a graphic of a still and running horse, whose gait changed relative to the taxi’s speed. The above video is badly shot and slightly poor in quality, [...] They’re officially everywhere. Not that it came as a surprise, but it was kind of a familiar and homey to discover a hipster scene in Seoul. Not that there were fixes piled outside or anyone wearing a keffiah, but there was, as the photo above indicates, beer in cans, a sure sign of [...] After a staggering long day of meetings with tons of folks, I ended up with a couple of Korean artists at an unnamed rice noodle place in an unfamiliar neighborhood. The meal came with three banchan, or side dishes. The onions on the left were for insertion directly into the hot ramen, and [...] So you drive into a parking lot at World Cup Park in Seoul and see the above sign. You’re an American, you have no idea what it means. How exactly is Seoul Women friendly? Nothing here seems unfriendly to anyone (except for traffic, which is like some kind of mob action Thunderdome). [...] 12 hours of taxis, group meetings, meet and greets, studio tours in Korea will leave you carrying 20+ pounds of paperwork. Really, though this post is about one of the many, major differences between art in Korea and the US. Every show, no matter how small, usually has a small catalog or brochure [...] |
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