Hello comrades and welcome to Josh Cresswell's blogspot featuring my adventures in South Korea and hopefully in the Stalinist paradise to the North! I will try to keep posts as random and infrequently as possible. Do not worry, I will not feature such mundane script as "last night I was sooo bored" or "I went to this restaurant and they served the wirdest thing" or "I am getting sick of little Korean kids" or any of such meaningless heartless fluff. This blog will deal with the sweat and toil of existance with the hardcore: arts, music, history, sights, moments of realization, fashion, and of course a thorough analysis of the experience of Korean modernity both North and South those who live and love it and those brave resistors of Babylon.
My blog will also take the reader to the backwoods of Korea to witness the relatively unexplored and ignored flora and fauna of the land of morning calm. As a student of history I will seek to constantly show ideas, events and places through a historically situated perspective. Korea and its people have a long history of challenge and change which was more often brought by outsiders than internal strife, though we cannot oversimplify this into a formula the point holds for much of Korean civilization. I want to travel this land while I am here teaching english and in doing so explore existance and self and further realms of ideas. Yes to the uneducated this might seem bland but as Socrates said: "The unexamined life is not worth living".
I almost forgot, this blog will be based out of my experiences in the Southeastern city of Ulsan, a dingy Hamiltonesque creation of the Hyundai corporation, conveniently located 70 kilometers from the second largest city of Pusan and about the same distance accross water to Japan.
Well, here it is my blog, something I swore I would never do. Here are some pics of the Ulsan area and nearby Kyongju.
