Re: I'm outta here

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Fabian wrote:

> Well, no sooner do I reappear than I disappear again. I just had a telephone
> interview out of the blue from Korea, and I leave for the same in 2 weeks. I
> will have Internet access there through a school, but purely for academic
> purposes I suspect.
>
> Ah well, I suppose I'd better start learning Korean...
South Korea, I hope.  ;-)

Good luck there, and my best wishes.  If you look obviously non-Asian
Koreans tend to cut you a lot of slack; it's Korean-in-appearance
English-speaking punks like me that they tend to give trouble, since
despite outward Westernization there *is* (at least among the people I've
known) still a deep conservative streak.

Good luck with Korean, too.  I think you'll find the alphabet pretty easy
to read, a bit less so to write (I'm told this is a deliberate
feature--there's more than one way to write various sounds in various
contexts, plus mutations, so my spelling is hopelessly phonetic yet
incorrect), and a bit weird to learn if you don't know Japanese.  If you
do, the grammar will probably be pretty easy.  Or so I'm told.  :-)

YHL