I see OLD discussion going on again on another thread. I'm still not really ready for it but inching closer to being ready I think. Still in touch with Spa Guy but only occasionally.
I do have a new correspondent via a Facebook group I belong to. It's a Korean-English Language exchange group. (No, DON'T WORRY, I will NOT be starting up a long distance relationship with someone who LIVES IN KOREA lolol. That's too far even for me.). He doesn't actually seem to be a scammer, but he is a bit too bitter and depressive. However, we discuss music and he sends videos of places in Seoul where he lives (like the local bar playing 80's British music like Flock of Seagulls and the Cure lol). He gets to work on his English and I get practice in Korean. We can correct each other's grammar and spelling. We also chat on an app called Line which uses Papago to translate, so if I write a comment in English, I can see the Korean translation right away and am learning from that comparison.
Interestingly, he remembers what a big deal it was getting Hershey's chocolate bars from the American soldiers when he was a kid. Apparently that was still a big thing even in the 70's as Korea was still a very poor country at that time.
My oldest son and I went to the movie theater last Friday to see the movie version of the BTS concert in Busan (their final concert before going on hiatus to do their mandatory military service). It was SO GOOD!!!
For those of you that have HBO Max, I recommend the new show Tokyo Vice. Based (very loosely) on the true story of an American journalist who worked on a Japanese newspaper in the late 1990's, and wrote investigative journalism about the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia). One of the actors is this great young Japanese actor Show Kasamatsu - he has the most expressive face. The show is in English with occasional Japanese dialogue with subtitles.
