The shooting location that I’m gonna talk about is Kim Sam Soon’s House. Many Kim Sam Soon’s fans should have remember that Kim Sam Soon (Kim Sun Ah) mortgage her father house to Hyun Jin Heon (Hyun Bin) in order to pay off the debts. This is also how their relationships started to grow.

Many will have remember that this wooden pavilion (Picture 1). Yup, that was where Jin Heon (Hyun Bin) had always sat to wait for Kim Sam Soon to alight from the bus. However the wooden pavilion is slightly different from what is shown in the drama. Think it might have been renovated.

Next we have arrived at the O’Wall Wine & Pasta by HJ. If you remember, this store used to be a convenience store where Kim Sam Soon asked for a cigarette to smoke. ^^

Moving on I turned back and took another photo. This is the road where Kim Sam Soon used to walk home after she alighted from the bus.

Next coming to the long slope way to Kim Sam Soon’s House. This slope is quite steep and I think I can really lose weight if I would to climb up and down everyday ^^

Tala! And here we are outside Kim Sam Soon’s House. The gate had been painted in white (if I don’t remember wrongly, it used to be in blue or silver)

I actually took a peep inside the house and see if anyone is living in the house. Unfortunately, no one was staying in the house and there is a small notice pasted at the side door – ‘House For Rent’. I also noticed that the swing was no longer there.

Overall I feel happy that I would able to visit the location, while looking at this photos really brought back alot of memories to me. Including the drama and my visit to the house.^^

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In order to preserve the bloodline and maintain the species, each has a special chip placed in its body as soon as it is born in order to keep track of them, and you need to have a government permit to remove one from the island.

A one-month old Jindo Gae on Jindo Island.

Most Jindogae fall into five categories, according to appearance;
1) Yellow dog (hwanggu,황구)
2) White dog (baekgu, 백구)
3) Gray dog (jaegu, 재구)
4) Tiger dog (hogu, 호구)
5) Four-eyed dog (nenunbagi, 네눈박이)

In very rare cased you can find Jindogae that are more reddish than yellow, or that have alternating colors like baduk board.

Yellow dog (hwanggu,황구)

White dog (baekgu, 백구)

Gray dog (jaegu, 재구)

Tiger dog (hogu, 호구)

Four-eyed dog (nenunbagi, 네눈박이)

Jindogae are famous for being highly active and thoroughly faithful to their owners. There are many touching stories about them, like when one was found next to its owner five days after the owner had died, or about one that crossed several provinces to find its way home. It is a Korean dog, one well loved for its courage and strength despite its small size, and for its intelligence.

Source: Arirang
Photos: Google

He expressed that he is very happy with the voice recordings of this Korean language textbooks for foreigners. Common spoken sentences from basic to advanced were been selected and published in the textbook. 4 different versions (Korean, Japanese, Mandarin and English version) were being published to suit different people language needs.

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Son Gi Jeong (Middle) – notice the Japan flag on his chest?

Having placed first in the event at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Another Korean marathoner, Nam Seung Yong won the bronze medal at the same event. Son Gi Jeong passed away in year 2002, but to this day he is highly respected by the Korean people as a national hero.

Sadly, however, his win is not recorded in Olympic history as being Korea’s first gold. At that time, Korea was a Japanese colony.

Son Gi Jeong was forced to compete for the Japanese team using the adopted Japanese name of Son Kitei, the Japanese pronunciation of the hanja making up his name.

As a nationalist, Son Gi Jeong refused to sign his name in Japanese and signed only his Korean name, and even sketched the shape of Korea beside his signatures. When interviewers asked him about his country, he would clarify that Korea was his mother country.

Son Gi Jeong had to wear a Japanese uniform when he went to Berlin. The athlete was a Korean, but he was a citizen of Imperial Japan. The day Son Gi Jeong won his gold medal, a Korean newspaper erased the Japanese flag on his uniform from the picture and published it on the front page. With this Japanese government imprisoned eight persons connected with the newspaper and suspended the publication’s operations for nine months.

Source From: Arirang & Wikipedia

You might have learned that “Mr.” or “Mrs.” in English is (씨,ssi) in Korean, but in fact it can be somehow rude to use it when speaking to someone far older than you.

In Korean seonsaengnim is sometimes used to mean the same thing as (씨,ssi), though it is used far more in reference to adult men than women.

Do not act surprised if you hear Koreans calling people seonsaengnim in places other than schools. For example, you’ll frequently hear store owners call male customers this.

Perhaps because people traditionally had a lot of respect for teachers and the elderly in Korea that this tradition began.

Others might include hospitals, where doctors might be called uisa seonsaengnim (Doctor Seonsaengnim), or even in beauty salons, where the person best at doing hair might be called seonsaengnim as well.

It would be safe to say that the word in used in a truly diverse range of ways in Korean.

Source From: Arirang

When the program host asked: “Do all your mums always worry about you during school days?’

Kim Hyun Joong replied: “I often fight when I was a student and often go in and out of the the police station. The host was shocked wth Kim Hyun Joong’s words.

Kim Hyun Joong continued: “I thought fighting was cool, but now I understand that people need to have discipline. When I was in high school, I felt that the school taught things that are useless so I make my own decisions to drop out of the school. I feel sorry that I have done my mum wrong. Every time when my mum drove me to school, I would hided behind the school gates and wait until my mum had left, then I skipped class and escaped from the school.”

“During school days, my mum was taken to the school with a car because I was always fighting. She has to hide herself when reaching the school gate as she is afraid of losing face.”

Kim Hyun Joong also mentioned about how he debut as an artist. “I started working after dropping out of the school. One day, I was being selected by the company when I was working in the Family Restaurant (T.G.I. Friday)”

Source From: MyDaily

Chosun Ilbo conducted a survey of 200 women age from 20 to 30 years old. 58% of the respondents admitted that they did plastic surgery before. About 98% respondents replied that if they can break through their psychological barrier and they have the money, they would go for the surgery.

Being asked is spiritual identity more important than the appearance, no one in the survey agreed. South Korea’s plastic surgery has expanded regardless of age level, teenagers of age 16 as well as elderly aged over 60 have never get tired of plastic surgery.

A representative in a high school in Incheon said that every year there are 30 to 50 students going for plastic surgery. There are even some parents who let them go for plastic surgery if they manage to enter college.

A 68 year old woman surname Song said that she has her double eyelids surgery 3 years ago. This year she is going for liposuction. At first her husband opposed her to go for plastic surgery. However recently, he praised her that she has become more beautiful and allow her to go for her nose surgery.

There are also an increasing number of men cosmetic surgery in South Korea. A cosmetic surgery hospital said that there are about 10 male queries daily in the clinic.

Source From: Chosun

Lee Jun Ki delivered a speech on 29th Oct on the topic ‘To all overseas fans who are traveling to the shooting scene of the drama’. His article beginning saying: ” Occasionally there are foreign fans who came here when the drama starts filming. And there are some things people are really worry about.”

Lee Jun Ki wrote: “There are some unscrupulous businessmen who made used of foreign fans to make money. They made those money through the establishment of the error lines, and such businessmen are re-appearing. We should be grateful to those foreigners who respect the Korean culture especially those who love the Korean culture and support the South Korean artists, how can such thoughts and actions be put across to those businessmen to make those money ugly which has gone beyond ridiculous extent.”

He also reminded foreign fans to be extra careful and do not be deceived by those undisclosed accurate information, planned activities and travel products.

hying: Please be extra careful about this matter. Travel to Korea with an agency that you trusted. Don’t be one of those unscrupulous businessman’s  victim.

Source From: Chosun Sports