Meet the couple

I reckon it might be good to give a little background on why the heck I'm heading to Korea.

My sister has been living in Korea for the past two and a half years working as an English teacher. Her trials and tribulations can be found on her weblog.

I guess her experience there has been mixed. She has lived in Brazil, Japan, and Taiwan previously and has quite a bit of experience integrating into other cultures. However, I think she has found much of the Korean culture incompatible with her core sensitivities. I speak mostly of her experience at work where students expect to be hit with sticks and where the administration and other teachers can be harshly direct and sometimes cruel. From what I understand, she's pretty much ready to get the heck out of the country. For me, this might be the last good opportunity to see Korea for some time.

The groom, Johnson (Jong Su Choo), is an immensely cordial fellow. I've only had the chance to meet him twice. He and my sister met at Marywood University. I really don't know many details of this time period, as I was in graduate school in Baltimore. He currently is a sales engineer for LG in the vacuum division, recently promoted from the ranks of their engineering sweatshops. I believe his family runs a restaurant in Busan. I do know his cousin is Cleavland Indians right fielder Shin-Soo Choo. The picture here was taken last summer at The Brown Annual Shindig with my buddy Scooter. This was Johnson's first fish. He was pretty stoked.

The wedding will be a traditional ceremony on 5/26. I think the service will be in Korean/Konglish and English. See the announcement below.