(In celebration of ten years of blogging here at LTG, each week for the next 5251 50 49 48 47 weeks I will delve deep into the sewer archives of past posts to bring you a tidbit of blog history.  I had originally planned to call this series “The best of LTG”, but damn, there just wasn’t much “best” to be found.  And mediocre is too hard to spell.)

Ten years ago today I arrived In the Republic of Korea for the first time. That post was pretty much all about my first time making that gawd-awful long-ass trip across the Pacific. I do remember when they closed the aircraft door at Dulles I had a moment where I was going “oh shit, what have I got myself into”.  I guess it turned out okay.

The bird what brought me.

One year in I was thinking I was half-way done with my time in Korea and reflected on all that I still hoped to accomplish.  And that was the day I got invited to join the dart league!

I didn’t mark another Korean anniversary until what I assumed would be the last in Korea in a post called 5-year yoja. A lot had happened in those intervening years, some of it bad (my time here cost me a wife I truly did love in my fucked up fashion) and some of it good (I met the wife I have).  Of course, in January 2010 I thought I’d be retiring and moving to the Philippines.  Things change.

Back in the day I was doing a regular series here on LTG called “Yoja of the Week”. Those photos still generate a fair amount of traffic from folks who come here via Google searches.
This lovely is the popular Korean actress Han Chae Young.

And so it goes.  Or went.