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Those Obnoxiously Cute Korean Socks

12/30/06

Permalink 02:53:35 pm, by admin Email , 159 words   English (US)
Categories: ...and Takes On, Korea, Tae Kwon Do

Those Obnoxiously Cute Korean Socks

Yes, I actually bought these ankle socks last night. I don't normally like ankle socks, but I'm in Korea...

And today I found these socks for 1,000 won a pair.

There's a small set of two islands called Dokdo in Korean, Takeshima in Japanese, and you may know them as Liancourt Rocks. This is disputed land. They're rocky and basically uninhabitable from my understanding, but Korean school kids will tell you they want to live there. Around the islands there's a rich diversity of sea life and that's part of the dispute.

The dispute is A Very Big Deal.

There's another disputed island, Daemado in Korean, Tsushima in Japanese. I hadn't heard of this dispute until I was looking up words from these socks.

독도는 우리 땅
대마도도 우리 땅 ㅋ

I don't know why there's a ㅋsitting there, but the rest of it reads

Dokdo is our land.
Daemado is our land, too.

And to complete your Random Photo Post, my dobok, folded up after class.

5 comments

Comment from: Trish [Visitor] Email
Buy lots of little things like those socks while you can because someday you'll be glad to have them as momentos of this amazing time in your life.

I think they're cute!
12/30/06 @ 15:43
Dokdo socks... why am I not surprised. I've purchased way too many socks here, although these are my favorite: http://janesdailyblah.blogspot.com/2006/08/rock-my-socks.html

:-)
12/31/06 @ 17:18
Comment from: admin [Member] Email
Dude, I'm tempted to buy these socks and send them to my friends back home. SPREAD THE WORD! DOKDO IS OURS!

Yes, I did write "ours" just like I was telling someone that "we" are very proud of Hangul. This place can work its way under your skin pretty quickly...
12/31/06 @ 17:37
Comment from: kangmi [Visitor] Email · http://www.kangmi.org
Love the Dokdo socks!
12/31/06 @ 22:46
Comment from: mat [Visitor] Email · http://matschitoryu.blogspot.com
Love the socks :D
02/06/07 @ 06:32

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An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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