Tonight there is an event being held in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss cultures and also experiences in traveling to Korea.

More information about the event can be found at the event link on Meetup.com. A link to some of the presentation materials will be added here when they are available online.

The video playlist below will be used to warm up the audience (if you are reading this post after June 2009 the playlist may have changed from the original 12 or so videos).

The Ehwa Women's Orchestra is performing in the United States this month (May 2009). The video below has excerpts of their concert at the Kennedy Center on May 1.

In case you don't get to see these Real California milk commercials on TV, the clip below is a funny commercial of a talking cow... speaking in Korean. It is subtitled in English:

There are more of these "auditions" on the audition page.

Or, if you want to start learning Korean, try the video below:

Until the food pages get updated, this blog post presents Cathlyn's Korean Kitchen lesson on how to make Kim Bap. Kim bap looks like a sushi roll, but usually has cooked meat and/or vegetables.

This month, the Korea Daily newspaper has done two stories about local area groups that are set up on meetup.com. The newspaper, and articles, are written in Korean (hangul).

The first article was written up Feb 17, 2009 on Annyong.net, and the second article appeared yesterday in the Metro section. Click on the image to enlarge:

The articles discuss how people - both with Korean backgrounds and those without - are interested in learning more about Korean culture, language, and more. These same people also help native Korean speakers improve their english.

And Korea native Angie Goff, who is part of the WUSA Channel 9 news team, also mentioned one of the articles & groups in her popular blog OH MY GOFF!.

Angie Goff

The musical trio group the Ahn Trio appeared two nights ago at the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

The February 20, 2009 concert was well-attended, featuring songs from various of their albums. Many of the songs were from their new album, Lullaby For My Favorite Insomniac.

The night before the concert, the trio hosted an evening session for some music students and others who attended a lecture & demo related to their music. They were also interviewed (video below) about their music & background.

The trio will be back in the DC area for a concert in Reston on March 21 at 3pm (Reston Community Center ticket info). More information about them can be found on their website - AhnTrio.com - and on their MySpace page, which also has some of their music.

Some robots on display at the 2009 Toy Fair were caught dancing to K-pop music.

In today's Korea Daily DC edition, a interview article on the front cover spoke about the DC-area Fun Korean Meetup Group. The article also included a mention of Annyong.net.

(changes every day)

More Korean word-of-the-day entries

These words & translations are from the Fun Korean Meetup group:

• "Help!" - "doh-ah chu-say-o" (chusayo means please).
• Happy New Year - Say-hay boke mahn-he pah-du-say-oh -
• noraebang - ??? - "song room" or as known in Japanese: karaoke

On this Korea page you will find some recent videos taken in Seoul.

And a winter sunrise over Seoul - short video clip: