jong comes to the dong

i wonder if kim jong il reads the blogs from south korea
you know, for intel purposes
i wonder if they creep the korean blog list
and if so, hes definitely reading this one
i wonder what he thinks of our time here so far
as crazy as he is, i'm sure he's pretty impressed by my crane game prowess and bobble head collection
sometimes i wonder if they even have the crane game in north korea
i would imagine not
maybe they have the crane game but the only prize u can win is oppression
or maybe they have kim jong il bobble heads
i think that would make for a good prize, better than oppression
he's pretty much a bobble head already
if he is reading this hes starting to get angry

i watched this great documentary on north korea
i didn't realize how kooky everything was there
i mean i figured it was weird but you gotta watch this documentary to see what i mean
anyway kimmy is all in the news lately
that's what inspired this blog
he's threatening to blow shit up, as per usual
but even though that's big news back at home, here its page 12 material most days
if it even hits the papers
i guess u get immune to the antics when you can pretty much see him from the balcony of your high rise
or maybe you just try and ignore him and they'll eventually just shut up
i think people here just get on with their lives because what else can you do
people here just continue to drive around in vans screaming in korean through a megaphone about local produce sales when i'm trying to sleep despite impending doooom!!
today though, my korean partner teacher told me kim got a 4 page spread in the local paper
all this is very reassuring since i find myself like half an hour from north korea
well half an hour if i had a rocket car that went directly north through the hills at 200mph
but to be honest, i feel pretty safe here in minlak-dong
i'm not really sure what jong would want from this dong
unless they are just interested in restaurants, convenience stores and hair salons(although i think mr. jong is due for a new hairstyle)
that's pretty much the gist of this town
i mean if u like fried chicken, which i do, u cant really go wrong in minlak-dong
most fried chicken joints per capita in korea (mark fun fact number 1)
i'm not really even sure who lives here as barely any of my students reside in this dong(neighborhood)
and pretty much none of the korean teachers live here
only the foreign teachers get the privilege to live in this dong, i'd say about 10 foreigners in this whole dong
i never thought i'd get so excited when i saw a random foreigner on the street
it borders on lame
anyway these facts makes me think that if the korean people don't even want to live here, don't want to hang out here and don't want to party here then what would kim jong il want with this place
i'm pretty sure he likes foreign movies, ipods and basketball according to wikipedia
these things don't exist in the minlak-dong
well basketball exists but when i'm schooling koreans on the court, you know something is up
what is up is that they suck at basketball
the koreans call me steve nash on the court
no joke
i think its more because im white, short and canadian but they also seem quite impressed by my "skillz"
which oddly enough never existed in canada
now uijeongbu he might like
despite the lack of night life, which i imagine he's craving and the overt military presence
they have everything kim could ever want there
you know, stores with gadgets, all the beige overall suits he could want, ipods, a basketball team, cell phones, a movie theater that usually has about 3 foreign movies at a time
so i think he'll leave us and the kind people of minlak-dong alone and therefore being in seoul or even in uijeongbu isn't all it's cracked up to be...
anyway if you are reading this kim, toss up a comment if you like it or even if you don't and want to smite me, i'm all earsi should probably just do like most koreans and ignore him, i shouldn't even write blog posts about him, but if i just wrote about my daily activities you probably would have stopped reading already(unless u stopped after the first line)
so mr jong, chill the hell out because you're making yourself look stupider than usual and you're making some people nervous, i imagine

-mark