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Singing and dancing in Seoul

I'm not saying that I believe Yoon Chang-jung, the spokesperson for the Korean government who resigned after being accused of sexual harassment during the trip to the USA. As I wrote a few years ago, after I had returned to Korea: Originally posted: August 3, 2009 It isn't just groping on the subways I've been in Korea for a full month. In that time I would guess that I have had my butt grabbed three or four times (by men), a (drunk) female friend put her hand in my back pocket, had my head fondled at least three times, and had a (drunk stranger-turned-friend) beg that I allow him to kiss me on the top of my bald head when we were out singing. And I'm not even referring to the nurse who gave me a shot the other day... I think the head-kisser said he was 27 or 28. His English wasn't that great and I couldn't comprehend when he was trying to explain in Korean that he wanted to kiss me on my head. I'm sure that such language isn't in an...

Dancing like it's 1989

Thursday night, my colleagues called me to join them for dinner, drinks, then noraebang 노래방. We wrapped up after 2 a.m. I pulled out some of my favorite dance moves from yesteryear... one of my colleagues was mesmerized, after a few more beers he decided to give it a try... I was casually dressed in a t-shirt, shorts, sandals. Still, I pulled off some of the dance moves. I don't know if he was wearing his tie when he started dancing, it seemed that he was moving too fast for it to keep up with him. It was agreed that he didn't come close to doing the dance as well as I did. It has been 20 years so I could do them in my sleep. At about 2:30 a.m. in the morning, as we were waiting for a driver to pick him up and take him home, he continued trying the dance in a parking lot nearby, asking me to do it again so he could follow my lead. He thought the dance moves were so hip. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the dances are at least 20 years old. If the Running Man suddenl...