Another merry soul in Seoul

SEMIPERMANENT

http://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/expats-lives-semipermanent-in-seoul.html

• Find all 12 Entries here:
  

http://esl-filoxenia.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/blog-seoul-and-me-all-12-entries.html

We add here out self-assessment after having done this quite innovative project for us.

• Learner 1: Ivan 'the Terrible'. TOTAL 82,5/100

1. Team work (15%) .......................................12 points

2. Presentation skill & content (10%) .......... 10 points

3. Lay-out (newsletter) (10%) ......................... 7,5 points

4. Oral recordings (25%) ...............................19 points

5. Written skills and content (25%) ..............22 points

6. How much you have learned (15%).........12 points

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• Learner 2: Joseph 'the Great'. TOTAL 83,5/100

1. Team work (15%) .......................................13 points

2. Presentation skill & content (10%) ............ 9 points

3. Lay-out (newsletter) (10%) ......................... 8,5 points

4. Oral recordings (25%) ...............................19 points

5. Written skills and content (25%) ..............22 points

6. How much you have learned (15%).........12 points

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• Learner 3: Mario Torras 'the Snail'. TOTAL 77/100

1. Team work (15%) .......................................12 points

2. Presentation skill & content (10%) ............ 9 points

3. Lay-out (newsletter) (10%) ......................... 7,5 points

4. Oral recordings (25%) ...............................17 points

5. Written skills and content (25%) ..............21 points

6. How much you have learned (15%).........10,5 points

http://seoulistic.com/living-in-korea/reasons-living-seoul-korea-awesome/

To my mind I've chosen these 3 aspects out of 14 which seems the most important or interesting.

• First of all, we will be in heaven if we would have the Internet connection that there is available in Korea. Thanks to Korea-based servers, you are able to be connected at any time in any place.
  
• Second, as a nature lover, I couldn't live in a fully urban place, so fortunately, Seoul has access to nature through its Bukhan Mountain and the well known Han River.
  
• Last, but not least, aspect is the button. An interesting device placed in every bar or restaurant waiting to be pressed to catch the waiters attention.
  

It wasn't easy to make this choice as Korea is a city with lots of benefits to live in. Which fits better with you?

Ivan Matamala & REVISED by team

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In my view, I found another three aspects really very interesting, apart from those that my colleague has mentioned above:

• First one of them, is local food. Living in South Korea you could find a huge variety of well-balanced meals, and in the restaurants you could enjoy the feeling of being fed family-like for an affordable price.
• The second one, is the possibility of extending the nightlife until ten o'clock a.m. (!?) and going to specific bars specialized in different types of drinks each one of them. This is not very common when you’re traveling abroad or when you’re living in another country outside Spain.
• The last one I had in mind was the dating culture, once you decide to live in Korea. If you haven’t any serious compromise, you realize that Korea has to offer all options you could imagine, because it’s said that Korea is the couple’s paradise.
  

However, I tend to agree with Ivan that South Korea is a place with a lot of advantages apart from those that each of us could choose.

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

-Write an entry stating FIVE things you enjoyed about our hosts-

What I like so much about this group of expats is:

• They are open-minded people, who accept to make new acquaintances and to explore new cultures.
  
• They have an optimistic point of view about life. That’s the way things are, but things could get still better.
  
• They are concerned about the feelings of other expats. I mean, they want to know how other people are living the experience of being an expat, to contribute with ideas that could be helpful.
  
• All of them seek to behave in an ethical and socially responsible manner.
  
• All nice moments shared with other people are highly valued by them.
  

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

- Write TWO things that surprised you from what Hassan said, and other TWO from what Tori said -

Hassan:

• The first thing that surprised me among all things that Hassan said, was when he explained that Korean citizens had a different perspective of things in life. In spite of that, he feels highly comfortable living in Seoul because people are gentle and in the neighborhood all neighbors are caring, looking after one another. The welcoming character of South Koreans, caused that Hassan could experience an easy transition from living in the megacity of New York to another megacity, Seoul.

• The second thing that astonished me, was related to the first one. Hassan declares that citizens of Seoul are well-mannered and warm, nevertheless he reveals that it isn’t easy as it may seem to get to dating with somebody living abroad. He admittedly loves the feeling of being an expat but, at this moment, he thinks that from knowing well enough a new person to find the truly loved one is an objective difficult to achieve. He doesn’t close the door to meet someone with different appearance or culture. However, he exposes that he met some characters who came to Seoul for a year to teach English without higher commitments in mind but they met a local who click together and soon they got engaged, or they had other personal commitments.

Tori:

• One thing that amazed me from what Tori Allen said, was her explanation about what is a balut. She states that it is a duck egg, with the developed duck embryo inside, which is boiled and eaten in the shell. The balut is commonly sold as food in the streets and served as a dish in restaurants of Seoul.
• Another thing that this beautiful Canadian girl has explained and that surprised me, was that she expressed to feel the need to meet expats with her same culture. She feels lucky of having met to a group of people like the one shown in the video. Probably this is because since she came to Seoul with her boyfriend, she didn't have her job and she couldn't share moments with her lifelong friends.
  

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

Email: xxxx@gmail.com
Website: http://vocaroo.com/
Location: Manresa, Barcelona, Spain
Phone: (206)-009-0007
Facebook: facebook.com/xx
Twitter: @xx

-After listening to someone who gave a glimpse of 13 things that may surprise us about the city-

What to expect: First impressions of Korea, by Korean Junkies.

With http://vocaroo.com/ here I recorded a 2-minute selection from the 13 topics he offered using the transcript offered.

Here you can listen to our recorded work & REVISED by team

• http://vocaroo.com/i/s1EqVEXRUeiv

- Show here your selected episodes -

OUR CHOICES are:

• Ivan M. - Chose Episode 18
  
• Mario T. - Chose Episode 17
  
• Josep M. - Chose Episode 15
  

Website: http://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/expats-lives-semipermanent-in-seoul.html

Ivan M. - Episode 18 "Making the grade" (04:50)

• link http://vocaroo.com/i/s1kqfTSizPsW
  

Mario T. Episode 17 "Body Issues" (04:20)

• link http://vocaroo.com/i/s1zrpqzxbaOB
  

Josep M. Episode 15 "Paws and Claws" (04:10)

• link http://vocaroo.com/i/s0uBqn45OSU4

Record an entry where you inform the audience about the content of the video and your reaction to it!

Watch this video below:

Here you have our first recording on the reaction to the video:

• http://vocaroo.com/i/s1l5CnSUnDDB

TEAM comments:

1. Great planning for the speech.
   
2. Good quality of language.
   
3. Good use of rhetorical questions for the listener (first 30").
   
4. Balanced comments on our perception of the event (last 20").
   

1. Perhaps not fluent enough.
   
2. Had it been played in Barcelona, would the answer have been similar??
   
3. Lacks description of the event:
   

• Where did it take place?
  
• On which type of people was the trick played on?
  
• How many times?
  

After two rehearsals, here you have our final recording on the reaction to the "lost wallet" video:

Script: Mario T. + Josep M. Voice over: Ivan M.

Length (02:30)

• http://vocaroo.com/i/s0WUlWEIuzkF

Write in your blog/flyer an TRIPLE entry on EACH CULTURAL theme from the three you worked above. Each one done by a different member of the team (with groups of 4, the extra member reviews the work).

BLOG-ENTRY 008.a-b-c: Stating reasons why Korean life is surprising, knowledge sharing, comparing THREE surprising things which you would like to be transferred to our country.

AT LEAST, one of them written :)

ENTRY 008.a - Korean TV: ARIRANG (oral)

ENTRY 008.b - HIGH TECH COUNTRY (written)

ENTRY 008.c - LANGUAGE to Showcase a Culture (oral)

My 6-minute recording on this theme can be listened here:

• http://vocaroo.com/i/s0GVD0jgMrX6

Ivan Matamala

After seeing different episodes, I found several specificities about Seoul as a high-tech city that impressed me:

• Seoul is a clean an attractive global city that represents Korea, which has a culture highly connected to the world, especially through new mobile technologies and the Internet. The city is on the point of becoming an economic and cultural beacon in this competitive XXI century. Its competitiveness is fundamental to the economic success of the country. The industry which gives Korea its sharpest competitive edge is related to ‘digital technology’ and nowadays it’s the birthplace of leading global electronics companies. It is therefore not surprising that Seoul is renowned for its cutting-edge technology. That’s the reason you can find in the city a huge amount of stores that specialize in the state-of-the-art items. The full devotion to hard work of all Koreans have led their nation to become one of the world’s largest economy in 25 years and Seoul has arrived at the threshold of becoming a new megacity. To make it globally more competitive, Koreans built the necessary urban infrastructure and provided useful and efficient administrative services to its citizens. It seems that Koreans believe that the key to making Seoul a world class city is to enhance its city competitiveness. In order to do this, Seoul has a vision that encompasses ways to secure economic prosperity and improve the quality of life in the districts of the city.

• Seoul is a crowded modern city, but this impressive city boasts routes of ancient palaces and public parks with peaceful and breathtaking grounds. The authorities of the city take advantage of using of new technologies to transform spaces from concrete slabs into lovely green areas spread amongst the skyscrapers of the neighborhoods. It looks to me like the city officials have understood the importance of creating a good living environment for their citizens and they have strived to improve the well-being of citizens in Seoul. As a result, we could find a number of lovely parks throughout the capital, a true symbol of nature’s resurgence in the metropolis and a perfect place for taking a welcome break from the hustle and bustle of Seoul.

• Seoul is a "fast fashion" capital, where trends change so quickly that a pair of jeans you bought two years ago might be disapprovingly frowned on by the city's fashion elite. It’s amazing how citizens value the fashionable and cosmetic issues. The city are always demanding a creative new design and vision and, to bear the intensity of daily production of cloth designs, requires to make the most of a vanguard technology. The city is a wonderful place to shop for clothing, especially if you are young and slim. It can be fun going shopping late at night, something you just can't do in most other countries. Shopping in Korea depends on the budget that you are looking at. In most countries, wholesale means cheap goods. Of course, the cheaper it is, the lower the quality. However, in Seoul things work a little differently instead; because if you buy in the suitable moment you will get good prices all around, and the merchants will give you a discount if you pay in cash.

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

My 6-minute recording on this theme can be listened here:

• http://vocaroo.com/i/s1TTp6y5OCus

Josep Martínez

- 10 ITEMS FOR YOUR Questionnaire -

They meet up Cherrish (Q1-Q6)

1. What is the purpose of the Princess Diary Coffee for Tiffany and Cherrish?

2. For Korean people, what’s the natural way to express their emotions?

3. What does the expression “it’s a must” mean? Where does it come from?

4. What does Cherrish say about the difference between acting in Korea vs doing it in other countries?

5. What exactly is “Aegyo”?

6. What did Tiffany learn at the theater? Did it work?

They meet up Paul (Q7-Q10)

7. What is the place for weird/odd stuff? What did they visit there?

8. At the museum, when they were looking at the paintings. Which was the favourite canvas for Erik?

9. What does Paul think about been a toilet expert?

10. What does Paul say about what poop represents in Korea?

Ivan Matamala & REVISED by team

- Later check them below.

They meet up Cherrish (1-6)

1. What is the purpose of the Princess Diary Coffee for Tiffany and Cherrish?

Cherrish thinks that when people are very focussed on their study or work, they need time to be, again, a little girl. Parents in Korea are very strict with their sons about holding a degree. Tiffany thinks that it’s like to come back to their childhood fantasies.

2. What’s the way, for Korean people, to express their emotions?

They don’t say “I love you”, they use cute actions or accessories to express that their mate is special for them.

3. What does the expression “it’s a must” mean? Where does it come from?

It means that it is something that appeals to you with so much power that you must do all you can to get it. They need an outlet to express their emotions. It’s a one good way to express their uniqueness.

4. What does Cherrish say about the difference between acting in Korea vs doing it in other countries?

She said that it’s very hard because now there are new productions coming and she’s just been able to perform so far a small amount of characters.

5. What exactly is “Aegyo”?

Literally it means winsomeness, which means wining someones’ attention or heart. Anything can be Aegyo as long as it’s cute AND childish.

It’s not just talking, it could be a gesture. It also reveals yourself when you show your hidden weakness.

6. What did Tiffany learn at the theater? Did it work?

She learned a way to start a conversation in terms of getting what she wants saying “Opaaaa, ichanaaaa!!”.

No, if the cuteness doesn’t work, try to be fierce roaring as a tiger.

They meet up Paul (7-10)

7. What is the place for weird/odd stuff? What did they visit there?

Suwon. They visited the infamous “Toilet Museum”.

8. At the museum, when they were looking at the paintings. Which was the favourite canvas for Erik?

Not surprisingly, the one with a golden poop hourglass with vegetables drawn on it.

9. What does Paul think about been a toilet expert?

He doesn’t consider himself a toilet expert, but he considers that this odd aspect creates culture. His blog posts are about finding something interesting and different.

10. What does Paul say about what poop represents in Korea?

He says that it is a sort of cultural symbol.

Ivan Matamala & REVISED by team

- 10 ITEMS FOR YOUR Questionnaire -

They meet up Sarah (1st to 3rd):

1. The woman born in Chicago who appears in this video, Sarah Lee, states that she decided to settle in Seoul and then she learned as a kitchen-hand in a restaurant. It’s true or false? Explain it.

2. The restaurant where Sarah works … What kind of approach could it offer to us?

3. Sarah’s transition from being a guest to an employee of the restaurant .. Was it an easy, personal conviction for her? Explain your answer.

They meet up Meagan (4th to 8th):

4. What’s Meagan Mastriani’s job, the young expat girl that came from Atlanta?

5. Is Meagan living in a neighborhood known for its meals and authentic good Chinese food? Give an explained response.

6. Do you think that she could find easily the same ingredients to produce certain dishes here in Seoul that in her country? Explain your answer.

7. Do you think that Tiffany had managed to understand the waitress when she ordered the dishes that she wanted?

8.What’s the Mala Tang? Describe it briefly and point out at least seven elements that you can see as ingredients.

They meet up Naciri (9th):

9. What does the friendly Naciri say about his main worries related to his sandwich business?

Last question (10th):

10. After watching this video. Do you think that it’s easy to say that South Koreans have known how to adapt some new flavors and other cultural foods?

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

- Later check them below.

They meet up Sarah (1st to 3rd):

1. The woman born in Chicago who appears in this video, Sarah Lee, states that she decided to settle in Seoul and then she learned as a kitchen-hand in a restaurant. It’s true or false? Explain it.

This is a false statement. She decided to move to Korea temporarily to learn as much as she could about Korean cuisine and food, and she eventually decided to ticket back home. Nowadays, while she learns, she works as an apprentice in a restaurant.

2. The restaurant where Sarah works … What kind of approach could it offer to us?

Chef Lee’s restaurant offers to us an organic approach with authentic recipes of traditional Korean cuisine. This more conservative approach wholly complements a modern-cooking style, using fresh ideas and only the freshest of ingredients, presenting quality and flair.

3. Sarah’s transition from being a guest to an employee of the restaurant .. Was it an easy, personal conviction for her? Explain your answer.

No, on the contrary. She received a lot of pressure from her parents, who persuaded her to work there. Nevertheless, she appreciates and respects being educated in every single detail in the Korean cuisine and she is taking advantage of this opportunity, because she has a passion for food and she wishes to get back home with all the knowledge she has been able to gather.

They meet up Meagan (4th to 8th):

4. What’s Meagan Mastriani’s job, the young expat girl that came from Atlanta?

She’s a food writer, and she writes for several publications. Usually she is asked about a certain kind of restaurants, and to recommend some of them, or not, to a certain profile of people to share the experience.

5. Is Meagan living in a neighborhood known for its meals and authentic good Chinese food? Give an explained response.

Yes, of course. She considers that it’s a pretty special neighborhood because it’s not a chinatown but you could discover there a few blocks where there are Chinese markets that sell you the authentic Chinese food in Seoul.

6. Do you think that she could find easily the same ingredients to produce certain dishes here in Seoul that in her country? Argue your answer.

Probably not. It depends where you are living, you have to change the way you cook definitely. That’s because the typical ingredients that you use when you’re at home (USA, Spain…) are too expensive or difficult to find in Seoul.

7. Do you think that Tiffany had managed to understand the waitress when she ordered the dishes that she wanted?

Yes, of course. She hasn’t a fluent Korean yet, but she uses it effectively.

8. What’s the Mala Tang? Describe it briefly and point out at least seven elements that you can see as ingredients.

The Mala Tang is a Sichuan soy noodle soup. It’s a spicy Chinese soup, with a broth that has a dark red appearance because the sauce is made primarily of dried chili peppers and cinnamon. It seems that contains Doubanjiang paste (a spicy and salty paste made from fermented broad beans, soybeans, salt, rice and various spices), meat, mushrooms, celery, fennel, spring onion, tofu, arugula and mizuna lettuce, bean sprouts, knife-cut wheat flour noodles, and glass or cellophane noodles.

(Meagan talks about the spicy Tom yum paste, but this is the variety of Thai spicy paste that differs a little bit of the Doubanjiang Korean spicy paste).

They meet up Naciri (9th):

9. What does the friendly Naciri say about his main worries related to his sandwich business?

Before opening his firm he was focused on making it really simple and make it all right, indeed. At the beginning, when he started, one of the biggest worries was what could happen if he really didn’t want to change anything of the flavors and the spices that were used. But it turned out that Koreans really appreciate and enjoy now what he's doing.

He went through hard times during the first months after he opened his business, but his brother Karim came to Seoul three months after the opening, to give him an extra hand.

Last question (10th):

10. After watching this video. Do you think that it’s easy to say that South Koreans have known how to adapt some new flavors and other cultural foods?

It isn’t easy to say, but in Seoul you could find authentic foreign food. Diversity is the way of expression of a society and, because of that, Koreans have surely adapted finely some flavors or foods from other countries, maintaining the respect for the unique or the authentic.

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

Write in your blog these ENTRIES:

a) Write in your blog the ENTRY_10_a, stating five facets you learnt until now.

• If you’re living in Seoul, ‘thanks to Korea-based servers, you are able to be connected at any time in any place’.
  
• In all bars and restaurants in Seoul you have the button, ‘an interesting device waiting to be pressed to catch the waiters’ attention’.
  
• Koreans ‘use cute actions or accessories to express their emotions or to say that their mate is special for them’, they do not have the habit of saying it openly.
  
• For Koreans the expression “it’s a must” means ‘something that appeals to you with so much power that you must do all you can to get it’.
  
• Aegyo means ‘winning someone's attention’ with some ‘cute and childish words or gestures’. This word is also used ‘when you show your hidden weaknesses’.
  

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

THEN: Read the link below and select the 7 aspects (out of 50) which were mentioned/visited in the link, stating why you chose them and found them interesting for you.

http://travel.cnn.com/seoul/life/50-reasons-why-seoul-worlds-greatest-city-534720

b) Write in your blog ENTRY_10_b, explaining why you chose these specific 7 features and found them interesting to you.

After reading all the features of this webpage I selected these specific seven features that I considered really interesting, and highlighted where it shoed some similarity or difference with our Mediterranean habits and costums:

1. The first group of features that I chose included these:

· 'Galbi' (1)

· 'Bibimbap' (26)

· 'More side dishes than main dishes' (49)

As we observe watching these videos, it seems that citizens of Seoul are really concerned about healthy life and their culture is also focused on bringing harmony to the table, mixing different types of foods to achieve the well-being in life. I like this point of view about food!

They’ll eat anything in the name of longevity, which leads them to have an obsession with organic foods and other long-life tonics. In Seoul there are a lot of typical Korean foods that you can taste almost anywhere, including Korean Air flights, and usually these dishes include rice or some sort of sautéed roots.

Foreigners love the popular Korean dish of barbecued ribs or lamb legs. I guess this is because it is like a 'do-it-yourself' experience, in which you need to pay attention to roasting the meat over a little barbecue at the center of your table.

A typical Korean meal can comprise more than seven separate dishes with their appropriate free refills. Back to us, I reckon there is probably more color on the daily Korean table than at Christmas dinner in Spain.

2. Another favorite item that for me was easy to pick was ‘Palaces of Morning Calm’ (17):

During the last kingdom of Korea, Seoul became the center for state affairs and the site of many royal palaces. I think it would be lovely to walk through the beautiful exteriors and grounds of the Five Grand Palaces and visit these restored palaces, which are open to the public and continue to exemplify a unique architecture, the Korean art and a concrete cultural history. It is hard not to make comparisons with some of the singular places of the city of Barcelona.

3. I found interesting the little article ‘Canine coffee breaks’ (18):

In our country it’s really difficult to find a restaurant or a coffee shop where you could stay inside with friends sipping a cuppa while you’re enjoying the company of your pet.

Seoul is a so organized city that everybody can find a place for every tendency or every cultural expression. Seoul citizens are so lucky that they can enjoy comfortably their spare time in specific dog cafés with their beloved pets or hang out with resident pups.

4. The next special feature I liked was ‘Superb service; random freebies, no tipping’ (24):

After paying a huge amount of money to travel to Seoul, who would not want to receive the proper care or some kind of present as a customer?

Imagine the situation: You arrive at the hotel and you find in your room a free gift of typical sweets of the region, or when you buy something the shop assistant includes in your purchase bag a little free present. The mentality of citizens of Seoul is so unique that allows you to enjoy the well-known ‘service’, a term that includes attentive and helpful staff always on hand to help out newcomers and freebies that can be anything. Contrary to what happens in many countries, this cheerful service does not include gratuities.

5. The last topic I selected was the ‘24-hour study rooms’ (38):

Every country where education is important should have facilities where people could develop their studies at any time.

In many cities of Spain, students who want to study away from home rely on libraries that are only open during business hours. Ridiculous, isn’t it?

I like this topic because of the great coherence in Korean society, which supplies what is necessary for its young citizens. Investment in youth means for them to invest in a better future.

Josep Martínez & REVISED by team

- Copy what you find about Seoul and Korea in the webquest and REACT recording yourself with similarities you can draw between beeing Mediterrarean and being Korean! -

It is hard to find where can we draw a line between "them" and "us"?

As we read in the sections of the webquest:

INDEX

• Do you know any large megacity?
• Their traditions, their people, their culture?

• Do you know SEOUL inhabitants?
• SEOUL, one of these thrilling cities.
  

INTRODUCTION

The city of Seoul, a great city indeed. We will learn about one of the most thriving megalopolis of the modern World (not in the old Europe, away from the cliché of American cities), just at the Pacific rim, where all the XXI century challenges are taking place. It holds a rich, engaging and lively EXPAT community in SEOUL, we didn’t know about?

Activity 1. The Hosts

The expat life to this AWESOME city

Activity 2. The Expat community

A glimpse of 13 things that may surprise you:

Be prepared to get lost - To be rich! - Food - Everything is overly cute - OVER crowded- Neon lights - Shopping - Coffee shops obsession - Alcohol - Strong smells and sharp tastes - Technology - Traffic - Super humid.

Activity 3. Cultural Bites

Continue to learn about this old nation, beside the sea with a great cuisine and attention to detail and craftmanship.

Intro. Our riddle today is about .... Reading korean words... easy-piecy !?

If I tell you that Korean is an alphabetic LANGUAGE, don't you find it interesting?

A singular Korean feature: honest – no Stealing wallets!

Admittedly, Korea is not a colony of Japan any more (it stopped in 1945) and its language, Korean, could be finally used for education. The world saw the division at Parallel 38 in 1953. It was for 37 years a closed country with no democracy.

In recent decades, South Korea has transformed into an economic heavyweight, having systematically applied substantial resources to research and development. Exports made up 53 percent of the Korean economy in 2011.

Being an Asian language, it looks Asian, syllables, characters could look Chinese or Japanese...but do not get fooled! It is an alphabetic language... Easy-piecy. Challenge: In 10 minutes you can almost read the word "MIQUEL ANGEL" in Korean characters. Korean is written into “blocks” that make up one syllable. One block always has exactly one syllable.

Did you know that when you Google “Koreans are famous for” the answers were

their sense of humour, as long as it is not at the expense of somebody else for their self-control of not releasing their true emotional feeling towards people they dislike their strong team sprit wherever they work. They always work as a team and any individualistic intentions are seen as selfish. Seoul is a rich society but with some urban marginalized and poor sectors of the population, where there are citizens with high illiteracy for sticking together and sometimes even shunning students of other nationalities.

Activity 4.

The Korean nation shows its millenary strength, with snow-capped mountains at the north and surrounded by two great neighbours which lets them show their proud nationalism, both economically bigger than her, both two very old nations-states in the continent.

My 7-minute recording with some things that we may be alike:

• http://vocaroo.com/i/s0aP0sZ9YIII
  

Writing part: Mario T. + Speaking part: Josep M. + Technical setup: Ivan M.

- Choose one of these THREE options for your video. Create in your blog a VIDEO entry -

Seoul and Amanda

You read this piece of news in a blog:

Semipermanent is a Korean TV program that airs on Arirang TV. It revolves around expats living in and around Seoul. They contacted me to be a part of one of their episodes about Mediterranean people in Seoul but unfortunately, I can't participate for some personal reasons however, anybody especially Mediterranean women, who do NOT mind being on TV and who are living in Seoul would be a wonderful choice.
Anyone who wants to be a part of this mini documentary on Mediterranean in Korea, please leave a comment here on my blog or shoot me an email at milena-92@gmail.cat

Pretend you have a friend, Amada, who has been living in Seoul for a while. You decided to contact our guides, Tiffany and Eric, telling them about Amada. Create a VIDEO entry, stating EIGHT reasons why Amada is enjoying his Korean life.

You may well use some of these ideas in the link below to guide your presentation...

http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/02/13/hanging-out-with-the-semipermanent-couple/

Here is the Seoul and Amanda video!

Editor: Mario T. + Script: Josep M. + Actor: Ivan M.

• Also on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXyFjZCJaTc
  
• EPISODE 21. Mediterranean shores.
  
• Amadeus, who wants to visit Seoul.
  
• A final version of a 5-minute speeches.
  

But before we copy the questions:

1- How do you feel now in the webquest?

2. Which was the most difficult skill for each of you, I mean, as learners of English?

3- Did you enjoy the interviews from the TV series Semipermanent?

4- Did you understand all the speakers from all over the world?

5 - Did you find Korea a place "too far away" from us, Catalans?

6- Is there any single feature that shocked you while you did the tasks?

7- Who worked more at revision time from other learners?

8- What two things you would like to redo again, now that you will not?

9- Will you plan to do some extra language with the rest of the series, ha, ha in summer?

Here it is the 10-minute recording that we've happily created answering these questions:

uploaded twice (vocaroo & soundcloud)

• link: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1jvYhYpcL4z
  
• link https://soundcloud.com/user-382494464/a-last-entry_12-radio-programme

Take a cold beer, find a place in the shade ... and enjoy it!