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passengers will see more clearly the destination in front of the bus and better navigate the city s public transportation routes.
p until this year, the Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting took place at the end of September, but next year (2010) the Event will be held in the spring becoming a part of the IAAF World Challenge. More specifically, it will take place on 19 May 2010. International Association of Athletics Federations(IAAF) will soon introduce a system to divide the Grand Prix Events into the Diamond Leagues (14 cities) and IAAF World Challenge (13 cities), starting from next year. With this decision, a total of 13 cities in 13 countries including Daegu, Korea; Osaka, Japan; and Athens, Greece will be included in the new IAAF World Challenge. Given that they will take place in May in Daegu, Doha, Shanghai, and Osaka, more talented world class athletes are expected to run, jump and throw at Daegu Stadium.
he Daegu City Government plans to change the exterior colors of city buses in 2010 and 2011. The current city bus designs were assigned in 2001 and 2002, but the City Government believes that the color change will bring vitality to the city's atmosphere. They expect the change will increase the bus usage and other services. The city has been operating LED destination signs in front of the bus outside and the bus route information in English for passengers in the bus for 10 buses which run 5 routes since the end of September. There will be the test operation for a couple of months. Starting in January next year, the destination sign and bus route information in English will be in operation for 135 buses with LED destination signs and 1,658 buses with bus route information for passengers. With to this service, the
he weather is getting cold and you might need something to hlep you relax. What about jazz music? For the second time in a row, Daegu International Jazz Festival will be held from December 10th to 13th at the Donggu Culture & Sports Center. During four-
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day festival, several Korean and international jazz and contemporary artists will play music for jazz lovers. They include YUN Hee-jung & CEOJ Band and Neo Traditional Jazz Trio on December 10; George Garzone and Apple Jazz Orchestra on December 11; Winter
Play, JEON Je-duk & MIN Kyung-in on December 12; and Tiffany Michelle, Woongsan Band, Intercontinental Quintet on December 13. Tickets cost 60,000 won, 50,000 won, 40,000 won and 30,000 won. For two-day package tickets, you will get 10% discount, three-day package tickets
15%, and four-day package tickets 20%. For more information, please visit the website at www.dgjf.co.kr or call the Organizing Committee at 744-5235.
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Herb Hillz
Even though the weather is getting chilly, it is refreshing to get outdoors and appreciate the beauty of nature. There are several options you may take for this. You may go hiking in the mountains surrounding Daegu, or you may visit other neighboring cities. Among so many places in and around Daegu, the Herb Hillz may become one of your favorites. Herb Hillz is an eco-theme park located in Gachang, Dalseong-gun. When you hear the name of this area, it may sound very far from the downtown area, but in fact it is quite near. It can be reached within just 30 or 35 minutes by public bus, such as no. 449, 452, 704 or Express 2. Here in Herb Hillz, you can enjoy various activities, from making soaps, candles, name plates, etc., to appreciating natural beauty in a well arranged environment. It will take one or two hours to just look around Herb Hillz. In order to take advantage of all the diverse facilities which are available, it may take two or three days. Since most visitors will not have sufficient time to do everything possible, it is advised that we decide on our choices before arriving in order to make the best use of our precious time. If you buy a ticket for admission only, you can visit almost all the venues even though you cannot participate in hands-on experience programs, or appreciate the Animal Show, which is one of the best things to represent Herb Hillz. With this ticket, you can take a walk through the Herb Garden, which is composed of the themes 'Hillz Romantic', 'Green-tea Garden', 'Rabbit of Legend', and 'Fragrance of Yard'. Other than the gardens, there are many other places which are well worth taking in, such as the Maple Road, Metasequoia Road, Pine Forest, and Herb Valley. You can also enjoy yourself by visiting the Korean Farming Folk Museum, or the zoo. From springtime to Autumn, great performances take place on the outdoor stage, free of charge. If you are adventure-lovers, you may have fun with the EcoAdventure. It is composed of 5 trails: Tarzan, King Kong, Gorilla, Chimpanzee, and Monkey. EcoAdventure is an environmentally friendly recreational sports site, where you can traverse from trees to trees using ropes, cables, and wooden structures. If you appreciate the beauty of nature, in particular during winter, you will be able to spend a wonderful time sliding over the snow in a sleigh or at the Ice valley. Here, there are two kinds of snow slides: a 120 meter, main slide for adults and children, and a 50 meter slide for infants. For the snow slide, you'll need to bring gloves. High-heeled shoes are not permitted in the slide area. The Herb Hillz will also give you the opportunity where you can learn from hands-on experience programs. Events are scheduled for each season, so a variety of programs are waiting for you to enjoy such as planting herb flowers, making herb soaps and herb candles, making wooden door plates or topiary, etc. You may work up a hefty appetite with so many things to see and do. Luckily, you will also be able to eat meals using fresh herbs. You can choose one of several restaurants ranging from the herb Bibimbap restaurant, western herb restaurant, or fast food and snack bars. You can also buy herb items at the gift shops. For the ticket prices, a ticket for general admission costs 7,000 won for adults and 4,000 won for those under 18. A ticket for admission, and one hands-on experience program costs 12,000 won and 9,000 won, respectively. A ticket for admission and the Eco Adventure costs 13,000 won for adults and those under 18. When one hands-on experience program is added to the above program, it will cost 18,000 won. There are also several other kinds of tickets you can choose to satisfy your taste and budget. For more information, please visit the website at www.herbhillz.com
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information about Daegu, then I collected some important information and made plan with my friends and jumped on the local bus to spend a few hours wandering around and getting my bearings. I d also heard from some Korean friends that Daegu s down town was an interesting part of the city and decided it was good a place as any to begin exploring. And really I have found that it was a pretty nice place, with a long pedestrianised street full of souvenir and sweet stalls and a number of little back alleys. My first impressions of the city were positive, in that I found it a vibrant and cosmopolitan place, buzzing with energy. It had more style and was more developed then Iksan where I have spent my first one year to learning Korean. During my one and half years, I have visited almost all over Korea accept some rare places, but indeed I have found Daegu is different from all. One more thing I should share with you that before coming here in Daegu I d heard from many Korean friends that Daegu girls are much beautiful than other part of Korea. And really I found them same. So I have given a new interesting nickname to Daegu in between my friends, "The Land of Beauty". As we all know that its human natural mental disorder to keeping interest in their opposite gender, so my eyes always use to enjoy around inside-outside of the campus of KNU, in the downtown, buses, subways, taxies and in whole city. When we see them, blooms flower in heart and mind plays guitar, every minute falls in love with the beauties, and dream up again and again. If you don t dream then I will suggest you dream at least once. No body know, when it comes true, and you can be hero in a moment. Now let s
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come out from the fantasy life. I have not only felt external beauties of Daegu but also the internal beauties, and we all know that internal beauties are more meaningful than external one. That internal beauty of Daegu is so called their kind hospitality. We can feel their hospitality around us, whether we go to restaurant, bus, taxi, down town, markets, or in university. So their kind hospitality made me adore of Daegu and its people. Before getting start my 1st semester I enjoyed a lot what shortly explained above, and visited many times down town and other places, for example Yugasa Temple, located deep in the valley of Mt. Biseulsan, Daegu Arboretum, Daegu National Museum, Daegu Opera house, Daegu Stadium, Gyesan Cathedrals of Downtown etc. but when my semester started for Masters, I realised that I am very week in my major and need that will have to study very hard for a good outcome and also want to make good impression on my teachers, but as you know Korean literature is even though difficult for the Koreans, I was going through very tough time, meanwhile studying my major, was searching some thing on the internet, accidentally saw a notice on the Daegu City Hall website that there was a cultural tour programme of two days for the foreigners. So I applied it and got selected for it fortunately and visited Yongju s Sunbichon(The Scholar s Village) traditional village. The Programme was well organised by Daegu City Hall, they have provide all kind of facilities to us and made us fully enjoyed there during the weekend. We experienced there traditional Korean culture with a variety of hands-on activities such as making colourful handkerchief, Calligraphy, played Samulnori a traditional game and also other traditional games of Korea, participated in the Traditional Wedding Ceremony. We all participant were almost one hundred and all stayed overnight there in Sunbichon s traditional house called the "Hanok". I really got free from all my study stress and made lots of friends during two days short programme. That was really one of good moments in my life which I will remember for a long time. I am lucky to getting education in Korea in such a beautiful environment and gaining international exposure both in academic and professional world. Once while I was in India, one of my friends asked me what do you want to be in your life? What is your dream? I just smiled as usually I do, and replied him, don t know, on my reply, he laughed loudly, and said, you should have some aim in your life. I reply him 'yes, you are right, I should, but I don t know why my heart use to say me that desire is more important than aim. Our aim may be fail but desire never fails.
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Desire may take beyond the aim where some other beautiful world will be waiting for our welcome. So I am full of desire and my desire will never ruin from my heart. And I want to go beyond my aim. For me, aim is only stoppage where I would take a long breath and start another journey to fulfill my desire. As some one said very interestingly: Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. Learning is a continuous process! It is not dependent on our age, but it is how we perceive ourselves to learn and increase our knowledge; consequently to become a successful and respected member of our community. Again, I am fortunate to be educating far away from home here in South Korea and the travelling that goes with it is a lifetime experience that money can not buy! During these fast and busy schedules of daily life I made many Korean friends who use to help me not only in my study but also in all aspects in the same way I also try to help them where they need me. And we use to share our intellectuality on the international basis on various topics. One thing is clear that Koreans in general are ambitious, well friendly, and hard workers and used to finishing things as quickly as possible, which I have learned by them. In fact, one of the expressions we foreigners hear most often in Korea is "Hurry Hurry" or "Palli Palli". But sometimes they rush things too much and make things go wrong, or ignore job efficiency or safety rules causing undesirable outcome. Korean place a lot of emphasis on little; it could be said that nowhere in East Asia does little hold more prominence than in Korea. Try addressing a Korean colleague of the same age group but higher designation with his name, and chances are you will be asked to prefix a title. If you don t use a title to address someone higher in the value chain, Koreans are likely to consider you disrespectful or discourteous. Koreans are to be very serious about manners. Even they maintain courtesy between close friends. Finally, my recommendation for dealing with intercultural issues is to have an open mind and heart. While we are all unique in some ways, at the core we are all the same. Our values, goals, and daily issues are pretty much the same. We might exercise different practices and customs, but they all fulfill the same basic needs or desires.
Afzal Ahamd Khan / Masters in Modern Literature / Dept. of Korean Language & Literature / Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea / Emailafzal@hanmail.net
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Restaurant Review
When people choose a restaurant, the quality of food, environment of the restaurant, and the service in general will be considered according to one's tastes. The downtown area is full of restaurants, and it may be difficult to select one among so many restaurants with diverse menus. Thus, taking the safe route, we usually go to restaurants which are frequented by many people, or simply just return to a restaurant that is familiar. If you are familiar with Daegu's growing array of fine eateries, you may have already visited the restaurant "La Bella Cucina" in Suseong-gu District or at least you may have heard the name. The food is excellent with a wide range of wine selections, and the decor are great, too. However, you need to spend quite a money here. If it is a special occasion it may not matter, but if you just want to sample the menu, and the cozy environment for casual meetings, it may be too much. If you belong to the customers in the latter category, you don't have to go to the Suseong-gu District. In the downtown area, a new smaller version, called "La Bella Cucina Jr." opened several months ago. As you may guess
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DAEGU CULTURE & ARTS CENTER Location: Duryu Park Transportation Subway: Get off at Seongdangmot Station Bus: 202(202-1), 452, 600, 609, 618, 650, 836, 706 Phone: 606-6114
Non-verbal Performance "Nanta" Date & time: Dec. 24(Thurs.) at 6pm & 9pm Dec. 25(Fri.)~27(Sun.) at 3pm~6pm Place: Main Hall Tickets: 55,000 won; 44,000 won; 33,000 won Information: 762-0000
DAEGU OPERA HOUSE Location: Near Home Plus
(Daegu Train Station)
The 362nd Performance by the Daegu City Symphony Orchestra Date & time: Dec. 10(Thur.) at 7:30pm Tickets: 20,000 won; 10,000 won Information: 606-6313 The 107th Performance "Messiah" by the Daegu City Choir Date & time: Dec. 17(Thur.) at 7:30pm Tickets: 15,000 won; 10,000 won Information: 606-6315 Year-end Performance by the Daegu City Symphony Orchestra Date & time: Dec. 22(Tue.) at 7:30pm Venue: Main Hall Tickets: To be announced Information: 606-6313 Non-verbal Performance "Ballerina who loved a B-boy" Date & time: Dec. 27(Sun.) at 4pm & 7pm Venue: Main Hall Tickets: 50,000 won; 40,000 won Information: 011-506-8747
Transportation Bus: 323-1(323), 503, 653, 706, Express 2, Donggu 1-1 Phone: 053)666-6000
(http://www.daeguoperahouse.org)
Musical "All Shook Up" Period: Dec. 11(Fri.)~27(Sun.) Time: Weekdays at 7:30pm; Saturdays at 3pm & 7:30pm; Sundays at 2pm & 6:30pm Place: Yongji Hall Tickets: 90,000 won; 70,000 won; 50,000 won Information: 762-0000 Midnight Concert "Auld Lang Syne" Date & time: Dec. 31(Thurs.) at 11pm Place: Yongji Hall Tickets: 20,000 won; 15,000 won; 10,000 won Information: 666-3300
DAEGU CITIZENS' HALL Location: Next to Daegu Train Station Transportation Bus: 101(101-1), 202(202-1), 349, 420(420-1), 618, 623, 651, 653, 808, 704, 708, Bukgu 2 Phone: 252-6401~6
(www.dgcitizencenter.or.kr)
Opera "Madama Butterfly" by the Yeungnam Opera Company Dates & time: Dec. 11(Fri.)~12(Sat.) at 7:30pm Tickets: 100,000 won; 70,000 won; 50,000 won; 30,000 won; 20,000 won; 10,000 won Information: 656-3059 Musical "Chicago" (Korean cast) Period: Dec. 17(Thur.)~25(Fri.) Time: weekdays at 7:30pm; Saturdays at 3pm & 7:30pm; Sundays & Christmas at 2pm & 6pm (no performance on Dec. 21) Tickets: 120,000 won; 100,000 won; 80,000 won; 60,000 won; 50,000 won; 40,000 won Information: 1599-1980 (www.goconcert.co.kr) Year-end Opera "The Merry Widow" Date & time: Dec. 30(Wed.)~31(Thurs.) at 7:30pm Tickets: 50,000 won; 40,000won; 30,000 won; 20,000 won; 10,000 won Information: 666-6000
SUSEONG ARTPIA Location: Jisan-dong, Suseong-gu (near TBC) Transportation Bus: 400, 400-1, 402, 403, 449, 604, 814 Phone: 666-3300
(http://www.ssartpia.or.kr)
EXCO DAEGU Location: Merchandise Distribution Complex, Buk-gu Transportation Bus: 305, 323(323-1), 503, 623, 653, 937 Phone: 601-5000
(http://www.excodaegu.co.kr)
Korean Rock Band "Buhwal" Concert Date & time: Dec. 13(Sun.) at 5pm Place: Main Hall Tickets: 77,000 won; 66,000 won Information: 1599-2005
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SG Wanna be Concert Date & time: Dec. 24(Thurs.) at 7:30pm Venue: 5F. Tickets: 99,000 won; 88,000 won; 77,000 won; 66,000 won Information: 1566-1369 MC Mong Concert Date & time: Dec. 25(Fri.) at 6pm Venue: 5F. Tickets: 77,000 won; 66,000 won; 55,000 won Information: 1566-1369 DJ DOC Concert Date & time: Dec. 27(Sun.) at 7pm Venue: 5F. Tickets: 88,000 won; 77,000 won; 66,000 won Information: 1599-2005 LEE Seungchul Concert Date & time: Dec. 31(Thurs.) at 7pm & 11pm Venue: 5F. Tickets: 99,000 won; 88,000 won; 77,000 won; 66,000 won; 55,000 won; 44,000 won Information: 1644-0488
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