Author: yonghokim

You know, Korea is a very strange country It’s one of the few countries where millionaires yell back at protestors “motherfucker do you pay taxes? Does your tax even count?” And then people online compare a millionaire 1:1 with a poor person and go “yeah he’s contributing to the economy alright”. And a lot of…

at this 20-person work call yesterday, as an opening icebreaker, we were going around sharing what each person does for halloween i was like “oh halloween is coming up soon, cool :9acosp_stormihuhwtf: ” then that night in our family call my brother shared a vid of his son dressed up in hallooween costume i was…

Preordered the Pixel 6 on October 19. Amazon indicates it’s shipping on 10/28, expecting delivery on Monday 11/1. I’ve been looking at the product page every day, seeing if the ship date moves (indicating backorders, which would mean that earlier orders ship first.. I wasn’t sure whether this would be the case) | Thursday, October…

regarding squid games, i’m more concerned about the random “we have a just society here within the game. and you can’t break the rules of fairness” mini-arc. that random plot was unnecessary, was forced. and it didn’t get followed up on. “fairness” is a big codeword among the right wing in korea after the 조국…

Haha I dreamt that i was working with a team in a voter preferred language recognition project.. in a supermarket

> DerTora: Kid asked me what my korean name is 💀 Der = definite article in german language, male singular tora = “tiger” in japanese => 그호 (that tiger) pronounced cuh hoe > AlanJ: whats my korean name? Anal= 💩 Jazeera =”the island” in arabic (traditionally refers to arabian peninsula) => 항도 (anal island) pronounced…

i understand why people would ask a lawyer to do their DACA app as a non-expert, it’s hard to tell which things require expertise and which things don’t if you are not familiar with the field imagine someone not trained in law doing like a unpaid wages lawsuit or idk.. whatever high level lawsuit they…

hmm so I wanted to open retirement savings this year there are regular IRAs and Roth IRAs Korean financial advisor who I went to ask first about retirements: so you should get a Roth IRA, those don’t get taxed My latino financial advisor: dude that Korean advisor must have super rich clients who get income…

when i was a college student i saw those credit card ads posted on the college campus and I thought that the APR was interest that had to be always paid as the cost of using a credit card otherwise, why would they display the APR rate so prominently in the ads? so I thought…

man i’ve been so out of habit of being outside i’m like walking and about to cross a street in a residential neighborhood a car comes along so I instinctively stop and get distracted thinking in the meantime the car is completely stopped in front of me, waiting for me to cross driver: “tf is…

> is using “oppa” if ur not korean okay?? like idk american australian etc. i think this can be a more complex topic you (and a lot on the internet) are approaching it as a “can a korean person say X word vs can a non-korean say X word” type frame. which has its merits…

I decided to return the rowing machine after two weeks of back pain. I don’t have enough time left in my 3-month return period to verify whether the back pain started due to pulling something wrong while rowing or whether it was just the usual bad posture sitting at desk. UPS was set to come…

Yongho2: hey Yongho Yongho1: :wtf: how about we buy a new phone no why man well you only have a work phone which is working out just fine and saving me a lot of money and the camera quality could be just a bit better than this old Pixel 3a huh yeah those food pics…

hmm i’m gonna add 1 more monitor will probably wait for some sales that pulls prices down to <$70 currently the TV is plugged to the cmoputer, but i don't really use it while at the computer – I only use while sitting in the couch. so the actual number of screens at the desk…

i lost 11 pounds since doing the calorie counting thing 5 weeks ago (half of which was due to post-vaccine fever) which is kinda crazy fast and nice i was gonna write earlier “yeah despite losing weight my body doesn’t feel lighter or with more energy” and as I started writing it i feel less…

huh after 19-Q4, i was only managing to work like 25 hr/week for most quarters too (except 20-Q4 and 21-Q1)

so each time i cook something and keep 1/2 or 2/3 of it for eating later, i put it in the electric rice pot. i usually have 2 dishes (sometimes 3) stored in the pot. it keeps it hot-warm for days. i never really wash it, as i keep cycling between the old dishes and…