So the only important thing about this week to me was the 16th Annual Jeonju International Film Festival, for which I had the pleasure of attending even the opening ceremony. The ceremony was hosted by 임성민 (Lim Sung-min, former KBS news announcer) and 김동완 (Kim…
As promised, I went to the 19회 부산국제영화제 (19th Annual Busan International Film Festival). In short, cinema dopeness. First off, I didn’t get to stay there as long as I wanted due to lack off Cinemaphile tickets, an upcoming midterm, and the fact that I…
There’s nothing better than taking a little escape right before your last week of classes for the semester. Ewha basically implied that by giving us a three-day weekend, which happened to be quite convenient because Diallo’s host invited us to the 제16회 정동진 독립 영화제 (16th…
Day 1 “Early bird gets the 무궁화 (Mugunghwa rail)” is how the old saying goes, right? In any case, I had no damn choice after the ticket purchase but to get up early for our five and a half hour train ride that was due…
Sunday, a few of the Light Fellows in Korea got together for a dinner hosted by 최선생님 (Professor Choi) from Yale’s Korean department. Back at Yale, she has taught a fair share of the higher level Korean language courses. At the dinner, Professors Daniel Bostman…