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What Is Aegyo And How Can We Kill It? Part Five

• April 30, 2010 • 16 Comments

Posted in desire, economics, korea, leisure studies
Tags: gender inequality


What Is Aegyo And How Can We Kill It? Part Four

• April 29, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in amorality, economics, evolution, korea, leisure studies


Complete Failure Of The Imagination, College Edition

• April 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in American culture, desire, education, laziness, leisure studies, Pseudo-Intellectualism, Yonsei GSIS
Tags: education


Now I Can Stop Thinking About Korean History, Because I’ve Got It All Figured Out

• April 8, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in cultural transmission, korea, laziness, leisure studies, Pseudo-Intellectualism, societal devolution
Tags: status symbols


Putting The Lie To Civilization

• April 6, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in books, cultural transmission, desire, economics, korea, laziness, leisure studies, magical thinking, Pseudo-Intellectualism, Yonsei GSIS
Tags: celadon


Vicarious Leisure

• March 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in American culture, economics, education, leisure studies, Pseudo-Intellectualism, societal devolution, Staffan Linder
Tags: leisure studies


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I am an American who lives in Bucheon, South Korea

I work in Seoul.

I am currently attending Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies.

You can email me at joemondello @ gmail . com

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    Bygone Joshing

    Ideas that done been joshed about:

    Korean child-rearing practices Living in an impolite society - Judd Apatow laziness - The Chortlin' Circuit - Incentivizing education in New York - Logical fallacies - Adding value - The popularization of the term 'Asperger's Syndrome' - Purging Korean of Japanese words - Eyelids - The Post-race frontier - Caring what others think - Dirtstaches - Overcorrection - The World's Biggest A-hole - Projecting stress on dogs - The Fat Comedy Style versus the Group Reinforcement Comedy Style - Bilateral pretend unironic enjoyment events - Unspeak and Korean produce

    Books

    • The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (txt file)
     

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