Monday, March 9, 2009

Those Wacky Chinese

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7933171.stm

Chinese ships 'harass' US vessel

"Five Chinese ships have manoeuvred dangerously close to an unarmed US navy surveillance vessel in the South China Sea, the US government says."

But that's not important. What's important is how these seamen conducted themselves.

"The US ship sprayed one Chinese vessel with water from fire hoses to try to force it away, the Pentagon said. But the Chinese crew stripped to their underwear and carried on approaching to within 25ft (8m), it added...When the Impeccable radioed requesting a safe path to leave the area, two Chinese vessels dropped pieces of wood in its path, forcing the US ship to make an emergency stop, the Pentagon said."

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Solution to North Korea

As other blogs have posted, here's the closest thing there is to a solution on North Korea.

http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.29483/pub_detail.asp
The North Korean Paradox and the Subversive Truth






By Andrei Lankov

"North Korea must be transformed from within. Neither sanctions nor direct engagement will work. What is needed is an effort to increase contacts between North Korea and the outside world through cultural and educational exchanges and through economic cooperation that exposes North Koreans to South Koreans and their vastly better way of life. Increased radio and video penetration combined with support for defectors who can aid the transformation when the Kim Jong Il regime ends will also be necessary."

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/books/04google.html?_r=1

"So far, more than 200 advertisements have run in more than 70 languages: in highbrow periodicals like The New York Review of Books and The Poetry Review in Britain; in general-interest publications like Parade and USA Today; in obscure foreign trade journals like China Copyright and Svensk Bokhandel; and in newspapers in places like Fiji, Greenland, the Falkland Islands, and the Micronesian island of Niue (the name is roughly translated as Behold the Coconut!), which has one newspaper."

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

One of These Things....

I translated the mailing list for the school news bulletin. One of these names is not like the other.

Gim jeong sun, seok seong yu, choe seon mi, jeon seok hwan, yi yeon ok, gang young this, gim bin, bak hye jeong, yang gyeon gah, gwak myeong hun, jeon mi hyeon, yim yeon gsuk, baek eun jin, eom guk hui, seong yeon ok, nam mi hye, seo gi young, gim cheol, yi ji hui, jeong seon gim , gim eun ju, chaeg yeong hwa, an na rae, jo ju in, gang su in, gim jeong ah, Kim Jung-mi, yi ah young, bak hye young, brandon, yi sang cheol, jeong in suk, jeong eun ji, gim yong hwan, bak jeong ja, jang eun su, yi hyeon ji, gim yun jeong, yang cheol sun, yi su sik, son seung hui, torture Jung


In addition, some boys were caught smoking yesterday and today apparently, because I see them being punished. They were made to call their parents yesterday and the teacher kept smelling their fingers.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Ok one more.

"학생들의 복장지도중에 남학생의 머리와 여학생 치마길이, 실내에서 운동아신고 있는 행위가 눈에 들어오네요
내일부터 집중적으로 지도할예정이니 학생들에게 주지 시켜주시면 감사하겠읍니다
앞으로 머리는 미용사를 고용하여 일제 정비를 할 계획이고 치마는 압수내지는 가위로 짜를 계획 입니다(강력하게 지도)"

Google:
Map of your head and out of a male student dressed girls skirt length, and indoor activity in the movement I see the report coming
Students are expected to focus on tomorrow, we'll sikyeojusimyeon to thank professor outfit
Japanese head to the future development plans to hire a hairdresser and a skirt with scissors jjareul a plan that is not seized (strongly Map)


Yahoo:
In the dress map of the students the head and the schoolgirl skirt of the school boy for a long time, from the interior fortune Dong-A report the act which is listens in the eye and to the students from tomorrow which comes the plan which will guide intensively is gives to make and if staring the head hires the beauty artist in future thanks and plan and the skirt which will maintain simultaneously the confiscation inland is salty with the scissors and is a plan and (powerfully, the map)

Translation

I've started translating the barrage of messages that I get on the school computers. Some are nice and others are a bit confusing. For example, here is a message I received.

"귀여운 자녀들의 입학식을 보러 오시는 학부모님들도 계시고, 또 중학생이 되는 부푼 꿈과 기대로 가득찬 신입생들에게, 깨끗하고 정이 넘치는 학교로서의 첫인상이 부각되었으면 합니다.
청소용구는 아직 미비하지만, 오늘 청소시간에는 방학동안에 손이 가지 않았던 곳의 묵은 먼지를 닦아내주시기 바랍니다.
아울러, 교무실 선생님들의 좌석 주변도 새학년을 맞아 깨끗이 정돈해주시기 바랍니다.
올해는 특히, 일제 청소시간이 주어지기 때문에, 모든 학생이 매일매일 학교를 내집처럼 아끼고 관리하는 기본 습관을 익혀갈 수 있도록 담임선생님들의 협조 부탁드립니다. 나의 주변을 청결히 하는 것으로부터 인성교육은 시작됩니다^^"

Google Translate says this:
"Little children come to see their parents are away to school, and junior high school students are full of hope and dreams to the bladder, clean your heart to the school have been emerging as a first impression.
Cleaning equipment is still lacking, but I did not go hand in cleaning time for a vacation, where old and wiped the dust, please.
In addition, the office of the teacher's seat saehaknyeon neighborhood clean, please jeongdonhaeju.
This year, especially given the Japanese time, so clean, like my house all the students to school every day in the habit of the primary care management of the cooperating teacher to ask ikhyeogal. From the perimeter to clean my education is the start ^ ^"

Where as Yahoo! Babel Fish says:
"See the entrance ceremony of the cute children also the crane parents who come are, also becomes the junior high school student and in the new students whom when kicks full with dream and the expectation which get bulky, the first impression as the school where the affection overflows cleanly is embossed. The cleaning tool still deficiency but, wipes the dust where today to cleaning time the hand kind the place which is not stays on period of vacation and hands over and wishes. Together, also the seat circumference of teacher school office meets a new grade and puts in order cleanly and wishes. This year specially, in order for the simultaneous cleaning time to come to give, all students like the within house spares the school everyday and everyday manages and the basic habit which learns the possibility of going in order to be, cooperative entrusting of teacher charge gives. From the fact that cleanly does my circumference tenacity education ^^ where is started"

"Chung's father died, Principal

Feet: March 3

Funeral Home: Pearl the hospital (jinjuyeok front)

Contact: 016 - 9280-5215"

"
Principal gave us a gift so coffee saemdeulkke 50000 won.
Generous heart, a lot, please share."

That's all for now.

New Semester

The new semester has started today and I've discovered that I have no classes for the week. I originally had a plan to go over the rules and enact some new disciplinary measures as well as playing a game before getting into the curriculum. That however, is not to be. All for the best I suppose, I was handed new text books for the first grade and I'm glad I don't have to teach out of them today. That would have been quite the bother.

We have a new principal at the school. The old principal was handed flowers and medal of freedom and sent on his way.

Here's to another six months.