Month: July 2003

Still in the Dongdaemon market area.

Boa

Jul 18, 2003

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This is Boa, a 16 year old Korean girl who’s become a huge Japanese pop idol.

On the Saturday night we were there, we went to the Dongdaemon market, which is the biggest market in Seoul. We had some great food there (pictures tomorrow). What you see here is the Migliore shopping center, which basically acts as an indoor market. Inside are 8-9 floors of sellers selling mostly copied clothing, bags,…

Meowlingual

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From Japan Today: Takara Co of Japan will launch a device that translates cats’ meows into human speech in November after the smash-hit dog-language electronic interpreter Bowlingual, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Logo

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One of the walls at the cafe.

Travel Journal

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Yuko writing in her travel journal at the Pascucci cafe.

Pascucci

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Tired as hell, we stumbled upon this cafe not far from Insadong. It had 4-5 floors, and sort of a funky atmosphere, but music that was too eclectic to enjoy (going from Motley Crue to jazz standards). In fact, music is probably the thing that annoyed me the most in Seoul. In the major shopping…

Supertrip

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My main man in Sweden, Jesper (who contributed a great flash piece to the latest issue of GEISHA), has made this absolutely brilliant little flash piece for Sweden’s SUPERLOUNGE magazine. It covers one of his recent trips (Milano, Canterbury, London) in a rather manic way. Great music to go with it too.

Japanese Bloggers

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So I was finally able to make it to a Japanese Bloggers meetup tonight, which took place at the Pink Cow in Harajuku. It was nice to finally associate some faces with names I’ve seen on the Net, although I didn’t really talk to many people since my Sugar Mama Lil was taking so good…

Lost in Translation

Jul 16, 2003

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