Some things I did in March 2015

After I came back from South Africa, I went to the Studio Ghibli exhibit that was in Seoul.

The end of February and start of March began with farewells to friends whose tenure in Korea came to an end. 

Of course, returning to Taekwon-Do training.

Going to a friend's birthday party...

and visiting the strange university with its own unique Korean religion.

On my own birthday I went to a Bobby McFerrin concert.

And got this cute little figurine as a gift from a close friend.

Since my birthday fell on an inconvenient day of the week for a celebration I decided to have a party on my lunar birthday instead, which conveniently fell on a Sunday. Some birthday party pics:

I had a nice time doing some Taekwon-Do research with two great Taekwon-Do academics.

More Taekwon-Do training.

And I went to the Ahn Joong-Geun museum and was party of a small group of people that rediscovered the dining room in which "Taekwon-Do" was founded in the Chosun Hotel in 1955.

Mika's Show, Last Year

Last year I attended a Mika concert in Seoul. I had been saving up for a video camera and had just bought it before the concert and took some clumsy shots during the concert. I downloaded them onto my computer but then they disappeared. I thought that I accidentally deleted them, or that they went missing when my one hard drive died. While searching for a completely different video on my computer I stumbled earlier this evening on a folder, and lo and behold, here I found some of the video files from the Mika concert. I just now uploaded two onto YouTube.

Mika Concert and Soccer

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Last weekend I went to see Mika perform live in Seoul at the Olympic Hall. The performance was followed up by a live screening of Korea versus Greece in FIFA.

I’ve been aware of Mika, but do not own an album (yet). The show was marvellous, with some very strange surreal things happening on stage. Mika is an excellent artist with an amazing vocal range. He’s music is very upbeat and one cannot help feel energized afterwards. I would easily go watch him again. What I did notice about his sound is how much of it resonate with the sound of Robbie Williams (of whom I do own many albums). However, Mika's sound is a little more eclectic, mixing pop, jazz, soft rock and techno into a pleasant happy vibe.

The video below was uploaded by someone on YouTube that also attended the show. The video below that is an official video.





The Korea vs Greece game was nerve wrecking. Korea scored the first goal within about seven minutes after kick off. The game ended with Korea and Greece with equal goals scored.