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Bestuhl Radius Workstation Chair
Price: ₩120,000 negotiable. Buyer must provide pickup from university campus in Namsan, Geumjeong-gu.
Looking for a high-quality office chair? This one has only cushed the tush of a university prof. Just one owner. Office chair originally purchased for ₩270,000. For pickup details, please contact me on KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
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Price: ₩50,000 negotiable. Pickup at seller home only.
Only one owner: the seller (me). Coffee-maker with built-in burr grinder attachment. Has alarm clock feature that automatically grinds whole coffee beans and brews at any time you choose. Burr grinding is superior to typical cheap bladed coffee grinders. Bladed ones can lend a burnt taste to your beans and unevenly grind them. Burr grinding offers more evenly ground coffee by forcing the beans through a sears of burr gears. Google "burr coffee grinder vs. blade" to see what I mean.
Contact using KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
Original Price ₩145,000 on Coupang."러셀홉스 대용량 그라인더 커피메이커"
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Price: ₩40,000 negotiable. High Definition 21" monitor, model EV-FLATRON. Great for plugging into your laptop for extended screen space. Can also use as part of a dual monitor setup, which is how I am using it to extend my real estate.
Includes the following outputs:
- HDMI
- DVI
- VGA
Contact using KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
LG 21%22 Monitor Front copy.jpg LG 21%22 Monitor Ports copy.jpgIKEA Remote Control Dimming Light (Wall Attachment)
Price: ₩50,000 negotiable. Stylish and perfect for indirect lighting if you have a recessed area in your celing. Used for about 2 years.
Some screws missing but will still anchor to your wall or ceiling. See photos. Pickup at seller's apartment. Contact using KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
Comes with the following:
- Remote Control with built-in dimmer and magnetic attachment.
- Driver to power lighting panels
- 2 Lighting Panels
- Cabling
Originally paid ₩140,000 for the above parts. This model is no longer available but here is a similar one: https://www.ikea.com/kr/en/p/skydrag-tradfri-lighting-kit-white-s19420322/
Tradfri Installed, Lighting On copy.jpg All Parts Tradfri 1.jpg Original Box Tradfri.jpgDual Power Space Heater
Price: ₩20,000 negotiable. Pickup at seller's apartment.
Contact using KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
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Price: ₩40,000 negotiable. 32" HD TV for sale in good working order.
Pickup at seller's apartment. Contact using KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
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₩30,000 for both Cookin' Coffee Maker & Grinder. Both are in good working condition. Not planning on selling separately. Pickup at seller's apartment.
Contact using KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
Coffee Maker 1 of 1.jpg Grinder Front.jpgHanssem Floor Rug
Price: ₩20,000 negotiable. Pickup at seller home only.
Need something to color up your room? If you like blue, you'll like this.
Only one owner: the seller (me). Well-cared for rug measuring 140cm X 200cm. Water bottle shown for scale. Rug is machine washable.
IMG_6060 copy.jpg IMG_6061 copy.jpg IMG_6062 copy.jpg IMG_6063 copy.jpg IMG_6064 copy.jpgLG Humidifier / Air Purifier
Price: ₩30,000 negotiable. PIckup at seller's apartment.
Prepare for the drier months with this humidifier. Also does air purification in one step with its "air washer" feature. Contact using KakaoTalk ID: 'shiraun'
IMG_6089 copy.jpg IMG_6090 copy.jpg IMG_6091 copy.jpgExperienced, TESOL certificate, American citizen, F-4 Visa, and in South Korea
Hi. I been teaching in South Korea for a long time.
I believe I have all the right qualifications.
F-4 Visa, American nationality, TESOL certificate, and good at teaching kids.
Kids learn the content and generally enjoy my lessons.
I'm responsible because I proven to work hard. The results are excellent.
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Gwangmyeong City
Position Time: MWF. 9:00- 6:00
TTH. 9:00- 6:45
Age Group: Kinder to Elementary
Start: July to November.
Payment: 2.6m~ 2.9m
DONGNAE 2POSITIONS AVAIL IN AUG & SEPT
working hours: 2pm to 9pm
Teaching type: elementary to junior high school students.
starting date: end of August & September.
Monthly pay: 2.3m ~ 2.6m
Two persons each month.
Send me your resume and picture by email.
My Comments to the South Korean Navy’s International Seapower Symposium: A Big SK Inter-Service Budget Fight Looms
Without a headline defense budget hike, ROKA, ROKAF, and ROKN are going to collide over the costs of army manpower replacement, missile defense, and an aircraft carrier in the next decade. (I am second from the left in the picture.)
This was the gist of my comments at the South Korean Navy’s 16th Annual International Seapower Symposium here in Busan this month. Here is my Twitter thread on that event with some nice pictures. I also wrote up these ideas in an essay for 1945.com.
To my mind, a big new issue for the SK navy in the next 10-20 years is the Chinese naval threat to SK SLOCs through the South China Sea. Particularly, SK oil shipments from Persian Gulf through the SCS are vulnerable to a PLAN blockade if China gets upset at something South Korea does, like cooperation on missile defense with the US and Japan. China has already bullied SK on missile defense in the past.
China’s creeping control of the SCS will eventually allow it to ‘quarantine’ shipping there to punish SK, Japan, and Taiwan. The odds of this strike me as pretty high once China has de facto control down there. Any embargo will be done informally, first with fishing fleet and coast guard harassment, escalating if necessary. I am surprised more thinking is not given over to this possibility. It seems really obvious to me.
This is one reason why South Korea is thinking about building an aircraft carrier, which I support. Expecting the US to do all the heavy lifting in the SCS is cheap-riding, so SK. Japan, and others should consider maritime bulking up to help.
For SK, the problem is the expense of the carrier at the same time that its army and air force have new, expensive needs too:
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- ROKA is facing a large manpower shortage in the next twenty years bc of SK’s birthrate is super low. ROKA will likely try to fill that gap with tech like drones and armor, which is pricier than conscript infantry.
- ROKAF faces NK’s spiraling missile program. It will need lots of missile defense and strike fighters (to hit NK missile launch sites). That too will be expensive too given just how costly THAAD and F-35s are.
These army and air force pressures will probably squeeze out the aircraft carrier – an argument I made for the Korean Institute of Maritime Strategy a few years ago (and which has turned out to be correct).
So I figure that MND will see a pretty sharp inter-service budget fight in the next decade or so unless the overall defense budget goes up. All three service branches are looking for pricey, big-ticket platforms.
—Robert E KellyAssistant Professor
Department of Political Science & Diplomacy
Pusan National University
@Robert_E_Kelly
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Changnimsa-ji Temple Site – 창림사지 (Gyeongju)
The Changnimsa-ji Temple Site is located on the northwestern foothills of Mt. Namsan in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do. It’s believed that the temple site dates back to at least the 8th century based upon the age of the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain,” which also just so happens to be Korean Treasure #1867. It’s believed that the temple continued to operate throughout the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), until it finally fell into disrepair during the early part of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Purportedly, the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site is also the site of the first Silla palace, which was erected by King Hyeokgeose of Silla (r. 57 B.C. – 4 A.D.), who was the founding monarch of the Silla Dynasty (57 B.C. – 935 A.D.). While this was called a palace/castle, it’s nothing of what we imagine when we think of a walled-off castle. Instead, it was probably something far more simplistic and the reason that Banwolseong was built later.
The Changnimsa-ji Temple Site largely remained in ruins until Japanese Colonial Rule (1910-1945), when the Japanese took a keen interest in Mt. Namsan as a whole. A lot of archaeological work was conducted on Mt. Namsan, which also included the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site; and more specifically, the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain.” In 1976, the scattered pieces of the pagoda were gathered, and the pagoda was rebuilt. The pagoda was made a Korean Treasure in March, 2015.
A child looking down at a seokdeung (stone lantern) base in a rice field at the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site. The specific date of the photo is unknown, but it was taken during Japanese Colonial Rule (1910-45). (Picture courtesy of the National Museum of Korea). The collapsed “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain.” The specific date of the photo is unknown, but it was taken during Japanese Colonial Rule (1910-45). (Picture courtesy of the National Museum of Korea). Temple Site LayoutThe Changnimsa-ji Temple Site is one of the most difficult locations to get to on Mt. Namsan. While you can see the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain” from the neighbouring roadside, the temple site is difficult to get to. It’s located up a network of farmer’s fields, dirt roads, and elevated roads that bisect rice fields. You eventually reach the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site from the south through a forested roadway. In fact, and about 10 years ago, the temple site was hidden in a forest.
The first thing to greet you, in a clearing, is the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain.” The pagoda enjoys a beautiful view of the valley below from its elevated position. The three-story pagoda stands nearly seven metres in height, and it’s the tallest pagoda on Mt. Namsan. According to records, the pagoda dates back to 855 A.D. The base of the pagoda is supported by a double-tier, which was crafted from a single block of stone. The base of the pagoda is adorned with the Palbu-shin, or the “Eight Legions” in English, which are guardians that protect the Dharma. Because of the damage that incurred from the pagoda’s collapse, only the four frontal deities still exist. Replacing the four missing deities are four newly constructed plain panels that help support the weight of the three-story structure. As for the three-stories, they are typical of the Silla pagoda design. And the finial that formerly adorned the top of the pagoda is missing. According to records found inside the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain,” the pagoda formerly enshrined relics of the Buddha, Seokgamoni-bul (The Historical Buddha). These relics were enshrined inside the pagoda during the reign of King Munseong of Silla (r. 839-857 A.D.). This is based upon the Joseon Dynasty calligrapher, Kim Jeong-hui (1786-1856), who acquired the “Mugujeongtap-wongi,” which is the engraved copperplate from inside the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain.”
Besides the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain,” you’ll find the “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele” out in front of the pagoda to the west. This stele was formerly housed in the tree-line of the mountain, but its more recently been moved out in front of the pagoda with the rest of the temple site artifacts like the stone base to temple shrine halls. So don’t be like me and trek through the bramble and rose bushes down the bluff to the north to get to the former home of the “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele.” Truly, the new location of the stele is much easier to get to, fortunately. The former body to this stele is long gone, as are the heads of the turtles; however, the overall artistry of the stele still remains. The uniquely designed stele has chubby front legs for the turtle base that looks rather cute. In addition, the body stone that once stood is well-known. Reportedly, the calligraphy written on the body stone was made by Kim Saeng. We know this because the Chinese scholar, Zhao Ziang, in his twenty-first volume of the “Augmented Survey of the Geography of Korea,” which specifically focused on Gyeongju, made a note of the calligraphy of the “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele.” Zhao Ziang specifically wrote in this text, “…These words on the Changnimsa monument were written by a monk in Silla called Kim Saeng. The strokes are deep and it has regularity – even reputed sculptors of China could not write better. There is that saying, ‘No matter where you are, there will always be a person of talent.'”
How To Get ThereFrom the Gyeongju Intercity Bus Terminal, you’ll need to walk about 750 metres, or 11 minutes, to get to the “Hwangridan-gil” bus stop. You can take either Bus #505 or Bus #507. You’ll need to take one of these buses for 7 minutes, or 8 stops, and get off at the “Poseok-jeong” bus stop. You’ll then need to walk east for about 13 minutes, or 900 metres, through backroads with the pagoda as your guide on the mountainside, to get to the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site.
Overall Rating: 3.5/10Just getting to the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site can be an adventure in and of itself. And if you attempt to find the “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele” in its former location, it can be an even greater adventure. With all that being said, the redevelopment of the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site from its former foresty location is wonderful. The reconstructed “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain” is beautiful with its four of eight guardians around its base, as well as the headless “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele” down the hillside to the west of the three-story pagoda. This temple site is definitely one of the trickier sites to get to, not only in Gyeongju, but in all of Korea. But a little adventure never hurt anyone, so enjoy!
First approaching the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site from the south. A look at the commanding view that the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain” gets to enjoy from the northwest part of Mt. Namsan. A closer look at the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain.” One of the four guardians that still exists around the base of the three-story pagoda. And two more of the eight guardians. These guardians face the west. A look up at the body of the pagoda. Heading in the wrong direction in search of the “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele.” Not all adventures go as planned, but that’s part of the fun. Where the “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele” used to be. And the now western location of the “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele” with the “Three-Story Stone Pagoda at Changnimsa Temple Site of Namsan Mountain in the background. Foundation stones to a former building at the Changnimsa-ji Temple Site. And a closer look at the headless “Changnimsa Temple Site Turtle-Shaped Stele.”—Dale's Korean Temple Adventures YouTube
My Short Story Collections For Sale on Amazon
Here are the Amazon links for purchase of my two books of short stories. Both short story collections, published only a few months ago, would make great additions to your summer reading list. The titles are, Adoration of the Korean: Expatriate Tales Made in Korea, and For the Love of Time: Tales From Home and Abroad. Fiction, quasi-fiction, and creative non-fiction are all intertwined in these stories inspired by both life in my hometown of Chicago and its suburbs, and my experiences living overseas for fourteen years. Follow the link to the Amazon page to find out more about these books and to purchase one or both of them.
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Hello! My name is Em English and I am a recent graduate from Arizona State University. I have a Bachelor's of Science in Criminology and Criminal justice as well as a 120 hour TEFL certificate. I am looking for a short-term contract of six months. While I don't have previous TEFL experience, I do have over two years of classroom experience teaching science to ages 5-16. I could start as soon as September provided with relocation assistance. I hope to hear from you soon.
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Create Your 30 Day Korean Study Plan | Full Beginner Guide
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F4 Gyopo Looking for Job in Gyeonggi
Hi! I'm a Korean-American English teacher looking for a job in Goyang--preferably in Deogyang-gu or Ilsan. I have an F4 visa and can speak both English and Korean. I've been teaching English in Korea (both at academies and private tutoring) for about seven years. I will be moving to Goyang this week so I'm looking for something that starts ASAP.
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