Future Korean Films

One of the most priceless and rewarding aspects of teaching English in Korea is when childhood imagination of your students combines with their limited, matter-of-fact English. Last week, in one of my writing classes with a handful of fifth graders, an exercise in the book had to do with the correct capitalization of titles, of books and movies, for example. One part of the lesson gave the students a general topic behind a movie and encouraged them to come up with their own titles. I laughed so hard after reading these and continued to chuckle for days whenever I thought about the student's (mostly) intentionally funny ideas. Here are some of my favorites:

idea: A Group of Teenagers in a Scary Place
student title(s): Pig Cage

idea: A Big Storm, like a Typhoon or Hurricane
student title(s): Scary Wind, Pig's Dung Wind


idea: A Trip on a Spaceship in the Future
student title(s): A Toilet on the Sky in the Future, In a Black Hole (Pig's Dung Hole), Space Monkey


idea: Two People Get Married at Age 80
student title(s): Happy Story, Two People Give Off Gas When They Die


idea: Two Boys Away From Home
student title(s): Go Away, Two Girls Eat Steak (note: both of these titles supplied by the girls in the class)

Bloody Sundae

Tonight, I finally dove into sundae (korean blood sausage + other assorted pork offal). The odd bits were special, some liver and other assorted parts (cheek? trotter?) dipped in ssamjang or sea salt.  Sadly, the sausage was only mediocre. Overcooked, lacking flavor, and too chewy, who knows how long it had been sitting there steaming in its own little pork jimjilbang. The sundae was purchased from this street food tent behind my apartment that doesn't seem to be noted for its quality but it was definitely cheap (3,000 won) and satisfying enough to make me want to seek out the stuff thats made and served with a little more care. But, I have to say, its going to have to seriously pull on my heartstrings to touch the morcilla that I had in Argentina.