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My Australian Wife #2

2013/01/11 / Nic / 10 Comments

Okay some ‘My Australian Wife’ again. My husband designs the characters and tries to think of things that were funny or weird to him and then I draw them digitally, but in his style, for him.

Okay this is true. My hair gets really tangled and knotty easily, so brushing my hair can be painful sometimes. He just laughs at me though. You don’t understand you Koreans, with your thick, shiny and silky hair! You don’t understand *sobs*.

We didn’t grow up watching the same TV shows, so there are some I have an emotional connection to that mean nothing to him.

Haha I just turned the TV on and Happy Days is on. I was like “Yeah Happy Days!” My husband didn’t even turn around from his laptop and just said “Psh”.

Rubber Duck

2013/01/10 / Nic / 30 Comments

He may have had a little bit too much soju when he said this. BUT, it’s not the first time he has said something is so cute and then followed up with “I want to kick it.” I haven’t quite worked this one out but I think sometimes the adorableness is too much so he ends up saying something violent in his outburst at the cuteness.

If you are in Sydney, make sure you go see the giant duck while it’s here. It’s so cool. I think technically it’s an art installation or something. I like this type of a art: a giant but adorable duckie floating around Darling Harbour. That’s my kind of art.

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In a Drama

2013/01/09 / Nic / 22 Comments

This is the music he was listening to:

He has been listening to this music a lot lately. Yesterday he told me about how when he listens to it with earphones in he feels like he is the main character in a Korean drama. He then showed me different dramas poses like in a Korean drama scene haha (which is why I drew it like that).

I told him that he is the main character in his own life at least haha. Listening to this type of piano music does make him feel better while he is working hard as it makes him think of the hard times that characters have to go through in dramas but then everything gets better in the end. It’s his motivation.

I love the emotional responses he has to things and that he is not ashamed to share it. Good communication is vital for a good relationship and even though we don’t have the same native language, he can express himself better than most native English speaking guys I’ve known.

One Born Every Minute

2013/01/08 / Nic / 18 Comments

Haha ‘V’ is difficult to say! I don’t want it to seem like I’m constantly making fun of his English, but there is something so cute about substituting ‘B’ for ‘V’ and also when he uses the more scientific names for certain body parts very sincerely.

Since there aren’t a lot of words starting with V, that pronunciation issue doesn’t come up that often but he can only say the V sound if he really thinks about it an emphasizes it. Of course he is not thinking about it in that moment when he turns to look at the TV and sees a quite graphic scene of a baby being born. What is shown on Australian TV can be a lot more graphic and controversial than what is shown on Korean TV, so it surprises him sometimes.

I really like the TV show ‘One Born Every Minute’, both the U.K. and the U.S. versions. It makes giving birth seem a bit less scary.

Guest Post on Beyond Hallyu

2013/01/08 / Nic / 0 Comments

Hey guys, I wrote a guest post (and drew a comic) for the Beyond Hallyu site so head over there to read it 🙂

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Cheese?

2013/01/07 / Nic / 17 Comments

Mindy asks:

What is your favorite Korean meal and what is his favorite Australian meal?

Let’s start with my favorite Korean meal. I like a lot of Korean food. I really like samgyupsal (grilled pork belly) especially with kimchi. I do tend to order bibimbap a lot because I love all the vegetables. (Luckily I often take photos of meals I order so I can show some).

I also really like japchae and yukgaejang. And I love lots of side dishes!

While I do like a lot of Korean food I can still be picky. My husband orders this a lot but I refuse to eat it.

Yeah… pig intestines soup.

My husband is a lot less picky than me, especially when it comes to Australian food. The only major thing he doesn’t like is lamb, and I swear that’s just psychological, not to do with taste at all. He doesn’t have a particular favorite Aussie meal, he just likes almost everything. Something he has taken a real liking to here is cheese though. He said he hated cheese when in Korea, and having seen the cheese available in Korea, I can understand why. But here in Australia there is such a huge range of good quality cheeses so he has realised cheese is delicious. He also likes eating crackers with dips too, something not really done in Korea.

Over Christmas when we were with my family we had a lot of cheese and crackers. Now usually we set them out on the table for everyone to have for morning or afternoon tea, but my husband would just get them for himself and sit at the table stuffing his mouth. (I also drew my siblings in the background).

This is an accurate representation of our Christmas.

In particular he likes water crackers with Mersey Valley Cheese. (Seriously, Mersey Valley, we love your cheeses, they are the best).

City Hunter

2013/01/05 / Nic / 35 Comments

We usually have different tastes in Korean dramas. A Gentleman’s Dignity was one that we both agreed on and now we are watching City Hunter. While we are both enjoying it so far, he gets frustrated on those slower scenes with…. feelings and all that haha.

There’s a lot of dramas I’d like to watch but our internet has been terrible so it’s too frustrating (out of our control and hopefully we’ll move soon). My husband borrows some DVDs from a friend at work but most had such terrible English subtitles that I’d yell at the screen. Finally we got the City Hunter one and the subtitles are good, so slowly working our way through it.

What are you watching now?

(Also, I had to draw a very simple comic for this post because we are both sick with horrendous colds! It’s the middle of summer and it’s terrible being inside and sick like this).

My Korean Husband