Another day, another 955.5 won

I went to my first Korean wedding last month, of my friend Ebi (sp?) a Japanese girl who's marrying a Korean guy. It was fun, especially since I went with my old host mom and host sister, and they managed to get the ajuma (middle-aged lady) who worked there to let me try on the traditional wedding clothes and pose for pictures at the traditional wedding table. My host mom is awesome.



Click here for more pictures of Ebi's Wedding

Korean elections and my brother Steve also came last month. The weeks leading up to the election saw pairs of election volunteers wearing matching outfits, complete with hats and sashes, promoting their candidate mainly by seeing who could bow to you the most as you walked down the street or into the subway. Also, candidates really utilized little trucks in their campaigns. I've noticed that Koreans love doing stuff out of little trucks, such as:
-selling fruit, clothing, instant coffee value packs, giant crabs, etc.
-roasting and selling chickens
-playing drums to promote some store opening
-showing an ad for something on giant TVs
-cheering for the national soccer team
-chanting slogans to support a political candidate
-and (my favorite) the candidates themselves setting up a podium in the back of one of these trucks and giving an impassioned speech out of the truck.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of one of these campaign trucks, so I had to shamelessly steal a photo from Ben's blog of one of the trucks right before a speech.



Steve and I had a good time, we saw Nanta which is kind of like the Korean cooking version of Stomp, and the usual tourist stuff. We also ate sannakji (live octupus), which Steve was set on eating before he left. Luckily they cut it up before we ate it, so we didn't have to swallow a whole writhing octopus, only writhing pieces of little octopi. Also, I introduced Steve to the jjimjilbang (bathhouse), Korean food, and Korean FASHION!!!!!!!!!!*
Steve had his huge camera with him all the time, so I let him take all the pictures, but he hasn't sent me any of them yet. When I do, this post will be much more visually stimulating.

*by "introduced him to Korean fashion, I mean we laughed at it.