World Famous!

In my upcoming biography I Shaved My Balls for This?, I refer to the year I lived/taught in South Korea as ‘the Year of No Mangina’. It was a long twelve months to be sure, but largely the fault was my own. In both Korea and the Czech Republic , I was never smart enough to live in the capital city, instead opting for smaller towns with more native flavor, and absolutely no man-on-man action.

The residents of Taejon, the South Korean town I lived in, were completely unaware that their city wasn’t a thriving hip urban paradise (for the straight natives it probably was – the local hooch wore skirts so short, one was often their unwilling gynecologist from half a city block away).

Said residents often proudly referred to the international fame of Taejon, citing some World Exp having been there in 1993. Also they have mountains. And a shrine of some sort.

I left in 1996, blue balls cupped firmly in my miguk hand, and shortly afterward the Korean economy collapsed hard. Only recently has Korea emerged with something truly worthy of global fame, and something I very much wish they’d had when I was there. Not easy Asian ass, which goes without saying, but my second fav, online multiplayer gaming.

SFgate has an awesome and informative article on the phenomenon here. Well worth the lengthy read.