SECON 2014

SECON 2014

This week I attended the Security fair in Seoul South Korea, from March 12~14. Here you can find the latest technology for the security business. I notice a difference between the last year security fair because last year’s fair more companies attended and there was more variety. 
This year’s security fair was dominated by the CCTV products (The acronym CCTV stands for Closed Circuit Television). And also could find many cameras and vigilance surveillance with different characteristics like better resolutions, night vision, face recognition, long distance recognition, and so on. The competition among cameras is fierce. 

Other security products during the fair: anti shop lifting, GPS, alarm monitoring, PC and document security, access control, digital prints recognition; door, keys, lockers, motor control and card readers systems. However I found that not all the companies are not Korean but American or European branches although the majorities are Korean companies. 
If you are in the security business you should attend the fair check out their web page where you can find the exhibitors list, places to stay, directions and so on. 
http://www.seconexpo.com/

About my new TOPIK video

Korea Traveler (@korea_traveler) tweeted at 10:25 PM on Sat, Jun 29, 2013: Did you see the new video about Korean language (TOPIK)? This is the question 39 I hope you like it ^^ http://t.co/1i2BKlr8ZT (https://twitter.com/korea_traveler/status/350968189632512001) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download

Korean cooking Dak jjim. Korean braised chili chicken

Today Im at sempio cooking academy learning how to cook dak jjim is one of korean people favorites and my own too.  Dak- Jjim is a Korean braised chicken or spicy checken stew known also by the name Dakdoitang.

Ingredients:

• 1 Chiken (precut into pieces)
• 500 ml water
• 2 Garlics 1 thumb nail size piece of ginger
• Chinese onion (white part)
• 1 tbspWhite wine (optional)
• 1 potatoe
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• salt

Seasoning:

• 3 tbsp Gochujang (chili bean paste)
• Chopped garlic 2 tbsp
• chopped ginger 1 tbsp
• Gochucaro (ground red peper) 2 tbsp
• white wine 2 tbsp
• Hyangshin Gangjang (braising) 2 tbsp

Method:

• Put chicken, water, garlic, ginger, chinese onion, and 1tbsp ot white wine into a pot and bring it to a boil.
• Once it starts to hard-boil then get rid of any unnecessary impurities and add 3 tbsp of Hyangshin GanJang.
• Mix all seasoning ingredients and add it to the pot.
• Cut begetables into bitable size. Add into the pot. Cook until the chichen gets fork tender.
• Finish with sliced chinese onion (the green part)

Korean cooking Dak jjim. Korean braised chili chicken

Today Im at sempio cooking academy learning how to cook dak jjim is one of korean people favorites and my own too.  Comming soon the recipe.

TOPIK No. 28 Questions 1 to 8

Do you know what the TOPIK is?
TOPIK: Test of Proficiency in Korean, is the exam for non native speakers of korean. Many people take the exam every year, people like korean language lerners, international students who wants to study in Korea or jobseekers.
In this blog I'm going to explain about it, and you can see what the real exam is. This is the first part of the TOPIK exam No 28, questions 1 to 8. If you have plans to make the TOPIK or just want to know what is about take a look, I'll try to upload every week and hope you find it useful.

The Koreans by Michael Breen

The Koreans by Michael Breen. If you want to have a deeper understanding of korean society. This book illustrates very well korean society, history, economy and politics. local media, work, family, confucianists, materialists and many more adjectives and descriptions about this culture that I found so true. "The koreans have a way of upsetting you and getting into your heart at the same time"... AGREE!

Garosu gil, el lugar más cómodo de Gangnam

Garosu gil, el lugar más cómodo de Gangnam

  En Seúl hay diferentes calles llamadas Garosu Gil, que se puede traducir como "calle de árboles alineados", de todas esas calles la más conocida por coreanos y extranjeros es la que esta ubicada en el área de Gangnam, el ambiente y estilo europeo-moderno lo hace uno de los lugares preferidos para quienes gustan de la fotografía. 

Esta calle de aproximadamente medio kilómetro alineada con árboles de "Ginkgo" es un buen lugar para  reuniones, tomar fotos, relajarse, ir de compras y apreciar arte. Como anécdota histórica interesante los primeros establecimientos de Garosu Gil fueron galerías de arte, con el tiempo las tiendas de moda, casas de café, restaurantes, casas de vino y el estilo extranjero de bares y cafeterías abrieron sus negocios, esto es lo que le da a Garosu Gil un poco el aspecto  europeo-moderno, aún que domina más el aspecto coreano.

Los precios aquí son más altos que otros lugares promedio en Seúl, pero a cambio se puede encontrar un ambiente diferente, moderno y sobre todo cómodo y olvidar el ambiente energético de Seúl y sentir que has viajado a otro lugar.

Se puede llegar tomando la línea número 3 del metro en la estación Sinsa salida #8, caminar 3 cuadras y caminar a la izquierda en Garosu Gil, otra opción es tomar la línea #3 del metro en la estación Apgujeong, salida #5, caminar 15 minutos y a la altura de Kraze Burger dar vuelta a la izquierda.