Korean Traditional Culture Experience

Hi! Guysss... I'm back with pictures for you all. Hope you all like it. All these pictures were taken by my friend's camera. However, I'm going to get my new camera Nikon D80. hehhehehe... Yahoo!!! I can take pictures as much as i can and share with you all.

Nikon D80

The city, Jeonju Deokjin has organized Korean Traditional Culture Experience to promote the Korean culture to foreigners. This event opened up to 4 universities's students which located in this town. This town Jeonju is a mecca of Chosun dynasty that to be proud of excellent arts and cultures and Jeonju Hanok village is well known as a city of millenium royal culture and Korean Tourist Organization often recommends Jeonju as one of best tourist places. Darling... when you come.. I will bring there...

This event are going to be 4 days course and will learn all about the culture and arts of korea like Tea ceremony, Wedding ceremony, Han dance, Hanji (paper sheet) manufacturing and etc. The course is conducted every Saturday at Jeonju Hanok village and we will stay there for one night and is free for us. wahahha :D

Jeonju Deokjin Art Hall

The opening ceremony of the events was in this hall and located just near to our University. The guy with colors strip t-shirt is my friend (Chia) from Malaysia too.

Korean Traditional Dance

This was the opening ceremony celebration performance. Do you feel familiar with this dance? Look like Japanese Traditional too, right? But, the only they don't make up like Japanese. They explained that this dance is same as Chinese Traditional dance called "京剧" (I'm sorry, I don't know how to explain it. May be you can ask you grand grand mother.... they should know heheheh).

Playing Drum & Dance

This one, I don't know what they called. Is it modern musical that represent Korea now? I also don't know too... Sorry for that. Anyway, they performed very well especially the lady with pink shirt.

After these two performances, the welcome speech and introducing the event by Chief of Traditional culture development department, then, continuing by Mayor of Jeonju-si (Song Ha-Jin) and Chairperson, Jeonju Municipal Assembly (Choi Chan-Wook).

Chief of Traditional culture development department

Mayor of Jeonju-si (Song Ha-Jin)

Chairperson, Jeonju Municipal Assembly (Choi Chan-Wook)

After the speech, we had 10 minutes break, and we continued our first lecture - Korean Mental and Culture. This lecture was conducted by one of the famous Lecturer in Korea in Koren Culture. His name can be find in the slide shown in picture below. This lecture was mainly share what is culture, the culture differences between Japan, China and Korea, how culture evolution from past decades until now, and what are their visions which have built them well known in the world.

The Professor with the lecture's slides.

The lecture finished around 12 noon, then we were guide to the park - Deokjin Park which just opposite of the hall.

Deokjin Park

View of the Park

Here, we were provided lunch inside this park, and the dish is traditional dish for Korean too, named as Bibmbap. For me, I will tell you, it is same dish which called "Low Sang" that we eat on Chinese New Year. But, the ingredients are totally different, Bibmbap has only vegetables and a few slice of chicken meat.

Korean Traditional Dish - Bibmbap

Don't get scare by this big plate and full of these vegetables. In actual, we can get one person portion Bibmbap in the restaurant. This one was trying o provide about 500 people (including students from 4 Universities in this states) to eat...heheheh :) . As you can see, the white color was the rice and the rest were vegestable and chicken meat. Don't ask me what is the vegestables names.....heheheh I don't know... and I don't have time to know because I just wack the food and it tasted nice wahahahah.....

Mixed All together with the rice.

Before you start to eat, you have to mix all the vegetables with rice then only taste nice as shown above picture. The Bibmbap smell very nice because they put quite a lots of "ma yao" (pronouced in cantonese) - types of oil.

My indonesia's Friends

The Bibmbap that I had

During the mixture section, my Indonesias' friend (doing PhD in Composite Material) and me tried to use the big spoon to mix the Bibmbap.... For FUN!!!! heheheh......... The picture above was the Bibmbap that I had. It is nice... You all got chance, please try it. For whoever don't like vegestable, please go to try it, i think you will just wack the food like me too....because it NICE!!!

Especially DiDi... you should try ya... Darling.... you don't worry.. I will bring to eat and don't worry, it will not let you fat after eat it heheheheh :P

Please come back to my blogs and my website (www.shienandy.com), I will bring more pictures when i get my D80 in my blog or website ... (provided i'm not busy with my study hehehe)

How I Spend My Public Holiday in Korea - Harvest Festival

From 13 - 15th September, it is public holidays for Korea. The festival is named as Harvest Festival and Thanks Giving (if not mistaken hehehhee....). In Malaysia, now should be Moon Cake Festival. The different between these countries is Korea no moon cake to eat and holidays for 3 days, but, Malaysia got moon cake to eat and no holiday. So, which one is best for you?...

The 3 days, 90% of the shops in this area will close. Basically, I have to buy maggie mee cups to keep to enough for me to eat for these period. I will show you what i had my breakfast this first day...

My Tasteful Maggie Mee

My Hot Mocha Coffee.. Smell Nice

How I cook my maggie mee?.... hehehe.. Here they don't allow to cook, the only way I can do is put the hot water on the bowl and dump my maggie mee inside the bowl, and let the maggie mee cook itself by covering the orange plate on top of the bowl. Sigh.... I have to eat like these for 3 days... Anyway, I will go to buy maggie mee cup much much easier for me hehehe...

By the way, I would like to greet to my wife, Shien, my families, my friends, and the whoever celerebrate Moon Cake Festival --------- HAPPY MOON CAKE FESTIVAL!!!!!

No IPHONE for S. KOREA!!!

I have been wondering IPhone got sell in S.Korea or not and the Answer is NO!!! This is due S. Korea mobile phone technology - WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability) which is not compatible with IPhone platforms. Thus, if IPhone wants to sell in S. Korea, they have to redesign it to support WIPI. :( So, guys... don't expect I will get IPhone back to Malaysia already .... Sigh.... Below is the news that i found out.

"By the end of 2009, Apple’s iPhone will be available in 70 nations, but South Korea is not among them. Nor will it be for the foreseeable future, thanks to WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability), South Korea’s cellular middleware platform.

The South Korean government requires all cellphones sold in the country to support the WIPI standard. And for Apple (AAPL), as well as other handset manufacturers like Nokia (NOK) and Sony Ericsson (ERIC), redesigning their devices to do so is a costly proposition. So costly, in fact, that they’d rather not bother.

“Korea is not ready,” an Apple Korea rep told the Korea Times. “We have no comment on [the] iPhone matter in Korea; also, there is no plan to release any further information about launching of [the] iPhone in Korea.” And that suits Korea’s mobile phone-makers, Samsung (005930) and LG (066570), just fine. They’re apparently not fond of unnecessary competition.

“Next time you are in Malta and you need an iPhone 3G, it will be there for you,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said earlier this week. But not in South Korea. Plenty of Samsung and LG phones, though. And how ’bout that Samsung Omnia, huh? Almost like the real thing …" By The Wall Street Journal

So, say good bye to IPhone.... Thus, just wait, wait, and wait.... Hope both parties managed to have a good deal, then only benefit us as USERS....

Nice Quotes from Albert Einstein

They help me and wise my thoughts .... Are they help you also?

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Wish you all like it. Some times when I read it, it really make me feel better ans wise up my mind especially I face some problems in any things.