If your last (first) name is Kim, you may not marry anyone with the last name Park.

This is a law in South Korea.

Oh, and did <chessgames.com> say that you can't have any more mortal enemies?

<If your last (first) name is Kim, you may not marry anyone with the last name Park.

This is a law in South Korea.>

If someone's last name is Park, could he or she marry someong named South?

no one in Korea is named South or North for that matter.

Your descriptions of everything are really interesting to read. I just take my hat off to you for this undertaking and am in awe of your carrying through with it. An experience for a lifetime, no doubt.

I've got to go now, but I'll look in later.

it's gawdawfully early in the morning.

BTW, I think I committed another typo (in <SeeSee's> forum, trying to paraphrase Donne's "Death be not proud"). Gad, I have no luck with keyboards, iron plating, or holding babies.

Where is everyone??

It's only 8 o clock in the evening <World UniTime Zone>.

The girls can dance like pop stars.

The "head girl" is gorgeous as well.

I know nothing about dance. I think the male teachers are afraid of these girls, I don't blame them.

Plus there is no chess at my school.

NObody in <Hyunpoong> has a chessboard except me.

I played a very long, very tough, and very enjoyable 3 and a half hour game on Yahoo on Sunday.

It was a draw, but a wonderful middle game with both queens and multiple pieces but only 3 pawns each.

The tactical possibilities were mind boggling.

I can't even tell if a blew a sure win or saved a lost game.

You're settled in already from the sounds of it. Another week and you'll go native and in a month you'll be running the place.

You remember how our shared time zone would now be christened NT - Normal Time? NT also could mean Nullarbor Time because as it happens, NT (South Korea) is like an hour to the left of the Peoples' Republic of Canberra and and hour to the right of the Miners' Republic of Perth, Western Australia.

That's right, in the middle of the Nullarbor Plains which I think has the longest perfectly straight railway line in the world and some of the biggest spookiest underground caverns on the planet.

All it needs is its own time zone. It definitely deserves one as there are actually a couple of towns in that general region of the continent.

So if you ever have trouble sleeping, you can count wallabies jumping railway sleepers in the treeless desert.

You were offline for ages!!

Playing poker, perhaps?

Hey remember when I whipped you like a rented mule in that Sicilian?

That was pretty fun, eh?

Yes, I'm falling in love with Asia.

There are tons of Chinese and Japanese teachers at my school.

I plan to visit a bunch of places, and it would be like a dream to visit OZ and get lost in them caverns like Becky Thatcher.

You should see this place. You ever been to Korea?

It's worth it just to see the <mighty Negev desert>.

No wallabies here, but there are giant incredibly loud insects and birds with tail feathers about three feet long.

<In charge of Dance Club> 80s music?

Hello from HOLLAND!

Hi <Lars!>

How are you guys doing?

heh.

Yes, I won't be playing YOU in correspondencea anytime soon.

I think you are secretly the great <Jan Timman>.

I predict he will win <Mexico>.

In one I am now up a Queen Rook and Bishop but the guy won't quit - admirable fellow.. And I play Dak as well at the moment..

Sicilian and he played 2.d4, I took it cxd4 and 3.c3!? for crying out loud!

But he is ahead in development - remarkanble stuff!

I'm starting my teaching career here, but I will be travelling all around Asia as well.

I expect to spend several years in Asia.

maybe I'll go teach in Japan or something next year.

Then I will teach my way across Europe after I have "solved" Asia.

Everyone and their dog makes their own <Kim Chi> here in giant ceramic pots in their back yard.

I eat it three times a day with chopsticks.

I'm going down to the <Hyunpoong> river to watch the black water flow endlessly into the sea.

Several hundred miles to the sea from here.