Hangul on English Computers

Before figuring out how to type Hangul you may notice that your computer doesn't display Hangul properly. If you navigate to Korean site (say a certain high school's website) and you see Hangul then you have nothing to worry about; if you see garbage characters, like "Àü³²Á¦ÀÏ°í" then you have a problem. This site solves that problem, but only for the web pages.

On occasion I need Hangul for Korean applications; without the language support I get pop-ups and windows with garbled character that consist mostly of question marks. There is way but it's useless to me since I have the wrong operating system. This note from a Microsoft help site tells me how to change the language on Vista, but it's only viable for Vista Ultimate and Vista Enterprise. I have Vista Home Premium and I'm screwed. And apparently so are others.

전남 제일 고등학교

The Jeonnam Jeil High School, (formerly known as Mokpo Commercial High School) has a mailing address:

Jeonnam Jeil Godeung Hakkyo
937-1 Yongdang-Dong, Mokpo-Si, Jeollanam-Do
530-360
Republic of Korea

as well as a more traditional mailing address:

530-360
전라남도 목포시 용당동 937-1 번지
전남제일고등학교

with the following phone numbers:

Fax (팩스)	061-277-7088
Administrative (행정실)	061-278-5121
School Affairs (교무실)	061-277-7082, 7083
Principal's Office (교장실)	061-277-7081

and a map/satellite view.

Of course it is also blessed with a small corner of the Internet at jeonnamjeil.hs.kr that also hoasts the school's photo album and (more importantly) lunch menu.

Mokpo Weather

A search will reveal plenty of weather sites (including the local choice) but I like the clean look of the BBC World Service.

I really dig their symbols.

Mokpo: Barbarian Invasion

Mokpo: Barbarian Invasion (currently run by Camille and Dave) is another Korea for Foreigners site, but focuses on the tiny niche of Mokpo.

Waygook.org

There are many message boards for expats in Korea and Waygook.org is the one that covers living and teaching in Jeollanam-do provice. It's a popular posting-hole with the local foreigners here in Mokpo, but I hang out there for the Lesson Plans.