Ajumma’s letter of recommendation
Preface
1. Seoul, We Can’t Stop Loving You.
Welcome to the Neighborhood!
Bountiful Bookstores!
Fabulous Food!
To Market, To Market!
The Side Street Show!
Jolly, Jumbled Jonggak!
Wonderful Walnuts!
The Great Korean Coffee Shop!
Meet the Kims!
Those Terrific Taxis!
Gangnam Kaleidoscope!
Wealth and Wisdom!
Home, Sweet Yeogwan!
Yea for the Yo!
Soju Serenade!
Charming Charlie the Jindo!
2. Can the Mayor of Seoul Know About This?
Korea’s Top 10
Seoul’s Not Cute ...and I’m Not Sorry!
Seoul Needs a Nickname!
Tiger Tales!
Seoul’s Good Guys...and Gals!
The Sticker Society!
Podori Patrols!
Adrift in Seoul (and Loving It!)
Superlative Seoul!
You Never Know Whom You’ll Meet in Seoul!
3. The Surprising Underground City in Seoul
Go Underground
Seoul’s Subway Symphony!
On the Merry Orange Line!
Ogden Nash on the Blue Line!
4. The Song of a Tiger
Sejongno Song!
Now, a Word from the Haitai
Wordsworth at the PC-bang!
Ten Arms, and What Good Do They Do?
A-Bridged
A Kat IS a Hat in Korea!
Hanbok, Hanbok Everywhere!
Sing Jindo, Jindo, Jindo!
Halmeoni, Halmeoni!
Lost in a Bestiary!
The Seoul ABC!
5. Seoul, ‘the Miracle Wonderful’
Delightful Dawns!
It’s Like This, Admiral Yi …
Say Hello to Ajumma!
Egg-stensive Eggs
Surreal Signs!
Is That a Giant Bowling Pin?
Stop and Watch the Fish!
Colorful Characters!
Kimchee Cornucopia!
Notes on a Dinner Menu
The Solid Gold Shark!
Eight-armed Entertainment!
Green Thumb City!
Cactus Country!
Cell Phone City!
Cell Phone City!(2)
You Know You’re In Seoul When
Seoul Statistics!
6. Nonetheless, Seoul & its people-Not Understandable
Enigmatic Encounters!
Desperately Seeking Shakespeare!
Pampered Pups!
Forbidden Floors!
Oh, Just Eat the Rice!
The Charge of the Health Brigade!
Can’t You Kids Slow Down?
Creative Korea!
A Cautionary Tale
Meet Miss Lonelyhearts!
Shamans and Show-offs!(I)
Shamans and Show-offs!(II)
7. I Do This Kind of Work. Anyway Sorry!
The Caption Guy!
Dress Up!
The Inscrutable West!
Why More Than One Means Trouble!
Oh, for a Prefix!
HO, HO … NO!
