War
So North Korea 'threw some bombs' as my children say, at 연평 island, and two soldiers were killed. I've heard this has been on the news a lot lately back home. Let me at least tell you that there is no air of concern here whatsoever. To the Koreans here, this is just another in a long line of small harassments that North Korea has been perpetrating for years. It's not talked about here and none of the Koreans we know are worried. I just thought I'd mention that because Koreans worry about everything. I don't think theres need to panic as of yet.
Wedding
Our friends Eric and Sylvia got married, so I'll put up a few pictures of that. I played piano and our coworker Danny sang a song, so Tylor had the camera the whole time. Unfortunately they serve drinks at Korean weddings, and Tylor's camera work was, let's say, hindered. But he did snap a few shots.
Much like the last wedding I attended, they did an american style, followed by a Korean style wedding. I didn't get many pictures of the Korean wedding ceremony (which is basicaly just them sitting in a small room while people perform some small rituals around them and take a lot of pictures. Here's Eric though in his Korean wedding tux. What I think is really interesting about weddings in Korea is the lack of ceremony. It's as if someone in Korea once attended an America wedding and said, hey we can do that! And then brought back the rituals but none of the importance. We were all just chatting and then we noticed the bride and groom coming down the isle, and no one stopped talking or mostly bothered to look at them. The whole time Eric and Sylvia were just up there doing there thing with the minister/priest/whoever, and the people sitting down weren't really paying attention. Pretty interesting.
OK, I must run to work so I've gotta cut this short now. Hopefully you'll see a new post in the short future. Miss you guys lots, see you soon.
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