Sign Of The Week

As you may have surmised, the teaching of English is a big business in Korea. I remember in my first year finding a sheet that listed the fees parents had to pay to send their child to the hagwon I worked at.
I and my co-workers thought it was a license to print money.
Which makes it all the funnier when you see something like this:

It seems the kids that are taking lessons and going on to careers aren't absorbing quite as much as they should.
It's a mystery as to why signs like this happen, when you consider that the sign painter could find a foreigner to correct his grammar and spelling as easily as he could find a pot of kimchi.
But it does make our experience in Korea richer, and full of nuance and texture.
In the coming weeks, Flint and I will be passing on that experience to you.

What the ... clothing?

A reader emailed me this picture. It is from a sign on the side of the New Core Outlet at Boemgye Station in Anyang. It is for a new line of clothes called ... Mook.

Damn. they even have their own brand of clothing. What is next? Cologne and perfume? Mook ... by Faberge.