Vietnam War and Korea.

Hi everybody!
Su here!

Today I will talk about the part Korea played in the Vietnam War, since I am learning about this topic in history class:)


When the Vietnam War was going on, Korea was devastated because they just finished the Korean War.
Many people lost their house, family and jobs.
They were starving and there was no food.( At that time Korea's GDP was 103dollars a year.)
President ParkJungil offered young Korean men money to fight in the Vietnam War.
Most of the young men were sons of farmers.(Korea's primary industry was agriculture at that time.)

"Mom, I'll be back home safely. Please be careful until I come back.I love you mom."

"My sweet son, I will wait you with warm rice. Please be careful. I love you my son."

 

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Here is a story that my father told me:

During the war many Korean soldiers could not be educated because they didn't have enough money to pay for an education. Because of their lack of education the Korean soldiers did not know that the chemical (Agent Orange) the US army was spraying in Vietnam, was being spread to kill the plants in the jungle (even though Korea and the US were on the same side in the war, the Americans did not notify Korea about the chemical).

Vietnam consists of many jungles which was of great benefit to the Vietnam soldiers in the war. 

The Korean soldiers who survived from the Vietnam War are suffering from the side effects on the chemical, Agent Orange.

 

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There is one Korean army team that is called "Tiger".

My uncle was part of the team although he passed away:(

They were the largest fear present against the Vietnam army.

If the Vietnam army conducted a mission, Tiger went to the village they were at and burned it down. 

" I'm sorry but I have to survive and see my parents."

'In front of body which is burned.'

To check the nerve, the team stripped the skin of hair. This can be seen very terrible thing. But at that time, it was for coming back to Korea. I think they did this to be more strong. (It didn't mean that I think it was a necessary thing.)

 ( Korean army massacred the Vietnam people. These days, many Korean NGO work for 

 However! In Korean school, the history teacher didn't teach us about Vietnam War  not that much.

In contrast, I learned how cruel Japanese for us in history class. I think it should be changed.!) 

There would be nothing left if the team called Tiger wasn't there.

 

 Scared children running away after hearing a bomb's drop. 

The photographer who took this picture was awarded Nobel Prize. 

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Scared children running away after hearing a bomb's drop. 

The photographer who took this picture was awarded Nobel Prize.

 For this war, Korea industry could develop with the money made by Korean young's life.

Korean thought "If we try, we can make it whatever it is." after this war.

This thinking made people to build this road.

I hope many Korean realize our bad and sad history about Vietnam War and to try to say sorry to people in Vietnam.

"I'm sorry."  Sukyong

Happy Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day!! I hope everyone did something nice for their mothers or the mother figures in their life. All my sisters and I made brunch for our mom and grandma, but also for our dad, grandpa and uncle. Dad, Saritha, and Sukyong helped me so much in making the brunch! Together we made potatoes, quiche, coffee cake, and crepes with Nutella, bananas, and strawberries! Yum! When I was planning the brunch, I thought of all the foods I consider brunch foods, which are coffee cake and quiche! Crepes are just fun and taste good! The recipes I used were:  
Pecan-Streusel Coffee Cake http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pecan-Streusel-Coffee-Cake-352072 It turned out we didn't have any pecans, so I just left them out. Also the recipe called for whole milk or plain Greek yogurt. We didn't have either of those, so I substituted vanilla bean yogurt. And it turned out great! 
Speedy Spinach Quiche http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Speedy-Spinach-Quiche-2049 This recipe asked for Monterey Jack and Parmesan cheese, we had none so dad recommended I use cheddar cheese. We also added spicy chicken sausage for more flavor and protein.
Crepes http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/basic-crepes/Detail.aspx The crepes were good, but a little runny and not very sweet, so after I made one I added a tablespoon of flour and a tablespoon of sugar to the mixture.
And my dad made the potatoes. You can see that two of the recipes are from epicurious.com! That is because I love that website, and whenever I'm looking up a recipe, thats the first place I look! 
So the brunch was great and now I'm stuffed. I think I'm going to go hang out with my mom now! 
<3 Meera

The Title of our Blog

Hi Everyone, 
   I wanted to write a quick blog post about the name of our blog, Sume. When Sukyong and I created this blog together, we wanted to show both of us in the title. So we combined our names together Sukyong and Meera. And we got Sume, pronounced su-me. The first time my friend saw the title of our blog, she said something like 'Why did you name your blog some blog?' On top of that, the title of our blog sounds like 'Sue Me.' We never thought of that when we thought of the name. And we definitely don't want anyone to sue us, so please don't! 
Anyway so that is where the name of our blog came from! Check back soon for more posts! 
<3 Meera

The Magic Flute

Omg, Su here


Yesterday May, 5th, 2011
I went Opera with my host sister, Saritha to watch an opera called The Magic Flute.

Although some operas are only good at one singing or visual aspects, "The magic Flute" was good at both.

And the opera was not  hard to understand because when I was 13 years old I had seen an animated video version of the opera during music class:)  Because lyrics were German, there was subtitle on the top of the stage setting. 

It was interesting that I could understand German without subtitle sometimes since I have learned German:)

"Mutter Mutter!" "Meine liebe" kind of things! there was bunch of words that I could understand during the opera.

I loved the part that the Queen of Night, Aria because Sumi Jo who is the most famous opera singer in Korea is well know for this song:)

I heard that although her acting skill is not that strong as other opera singer, her intonation and rhythm are very accurate.

My second favorite part was when Papageno and Papagena decided to get married and design their future.
In that scene six cute boys and girls came out and followed Papageno and Papagena's dancing.
They were soooooooooooooo cute:)


I love this opera:)
I hope I have the chance to see more operas!


so cya,
Sukyong

Su's Spring Break Part 1

Hi guys Su's here:)

I'm sorry for posting late.
My spring break was kinda boring but I got to spend time with my friends, so that part was fun! 

March 14- March 17
I had a sleepover with my friend, Jin-Ju.

In the morning Jin-Ju's host father gave me a cup of cinamon apple tea.

and also he gave me a xylitol sugar which is good for health and sweet:)

Anyway it was really good tea.

And I love the pot

Jin-ju and I made muffins and a brownie for sitting around the campfire. For Jin-ju, it was her first baking.
Because we thought there was not enough chocolate in the muffins, we put more chocolate on the top of muffins. The shape reminded us of aliens.

Before we went to the campfire, we watched the play of Jin-ju's host sister, Noel.

She was an amazing actress. I love her expression :)

I hope she will continue to act.

On Saturday evening we had a campfire.
Mr.Steven told us a few stories about his Japanese friends.
We put marshmallow inside of crackers and added chocolate (S'mores).
It was delicious!


Mr.Steven told us that we can be friends with each other no matter the age difference.
It was impressed talking.

Jin-ju put golden color nail polish on my nail that night.

On Sunday we rode bikes.

Near Jin-Ju's house there was flat rode that made it easy to ride the bike.

The weather was gorgeous on Sunday:)

Until here it was exciting sleepover with Jin-Ju :) 
 Bye, 
Sukyong