From September 2003 to August 2004 I worked at Ulsan Language Academy.
From Left to right
Adel from NZ, Johnathan from Brisbane, Judy from Sydney and off course my good self. All ready to hop on the plane home for a well deserved holiday (August 19th, 2004)
Pretty in Pink?
In Korea when a new shop opens three things usually happen
1. Lots of flowers outside the shop just like in the photo above. In this case most of the flowers are from friends congratulating the owner on opening the store.
2. Dancing Girls ! … but alas it is winter and so no dancing girls were present.
3. Every letterbox in a 3 km radius gets plastered with flyers advertising the new store.
WOW .. my very own website on the internet. Not my first, but the first I have paid money for. The first I am actually serious about puting content on it that people would be interested in.
so off course I have been obsessed with the statistics about my website. Even through they are only generated every 12 hours and my website is less then 36 hours old.
A video showing some of my fellow Gumdo practioners.
It has a nice song by Kim Kwang Seok as background music.
Over four weeks ago at the Haidong Gumdo competition (Oct 31st) I tripped on the stairs and badly sprained my left leg. My left ankle was swollen badly by at least six centimetres on the outside.
I got a half cast which I finally discard a fortnight ago on Saturday (13th Nov)
My left ankle is still sore on the bit of the ankle that sticks out on the inside.
I have been going to the oriental medicince ‘hospital’ or clinic. Cost is 4,200 won or about US $4.50 per sesson. Compare this to around $50 in Australia !
The treatment in shown in the photo above is designed to reduce the swelling.
The treatment procedure is normally
1. Accupuncture to help the injured area.
2. Then a big machine is wheeled in. Pads attached to the machine are fastened to the injured area and moistened. Then for about 10 minues I get small electrical shocks through the pads.
3. Sometimes and this is what the picture shows, the ‘bad blood’ must be removed.
Since my ankle was the area having a problem they need to reduce the size of the swelling. How?
By first, pricking the area with a small pin until my ankle was bleeding from multiple puncture wounds. This is as painful as it sounds.
Then a plastic cup is attached the wounded area and on top of the cup are hand operated vacum pump is operated.
Result: The air is removed fromt the cup which creates a low pressure zone over the pin punctures which then draws the blood into the cup. This is what you see in the picture.
And believe it or not it works! The first time I had this done my ankle was smaller by 2 or 3 cms the next day.
Stephen Hucker
Room 208
Anione High School,
Sungan-dong, Jung-gu, Ulsan,
South Korea 681-430
?¨?°¬??¨‚Äö¬??™¬¥‚Äò?¨‚Äî¬??¨‚Ä??ì ?¨¬§‚Äò?™¬µ¬¨ ?¨‚Äû¬±?¨‚Ä¢ÀÜ?´¬è‚Ñ¢ ?¨?°¬??¨‚Äö¬??¨‚Ä¢¬†?´‚Ä?ÀÜ?¨‚Ä?¬ê?™¬?¬†?´‚Äú¬±??‚Ä¢‚Ñ¢?™¬µ¬ê
zip code 681-430
Phone:
Mobile (Korea) 019-9268-4658
International: 82-19-9268-4658
TEL: 052-261-4029
FAX: 052-248-4034
email: stephen@stephenhucker.com
MSN Messenger: stephen_hucker@hotmail.com
Skype: stephen_hucker
web site: http://www.stephenhucker.com
BLOG: https://www.stephenhucker.com/blog/
School website: http://www.anione.hs.kr
Blog of the Pythi Master –
The Marmots Hole – http://blog.marmot.cc/
Korean History, politics and culture
GI Korea – http://jetiranger.tripod.com/BLOG/
An excellent blog on all things military and Korean by a serving Americian Army officer.
http://kimcheegi.blogs.com/budaechigae/
Another Military blog. Like GI Korea, it has good coverage of the US military in Korea and their perception on how welcome they feel.
The Flying Yangban – http://gopkorea.blogs.com/flyingyangban/
One word – wow! Like the Marmots Hole, but better.
http://hunjang.blogspot.com/
Ruminations in Korea: Deathwatch 2004
A great article on the College extrance exam in Korea
