Make that 20,000 people

That's the number of people who saw my Korean video resume in the last three days. It has essentially petered out to a trickle since it was taken off the main page of Daum TVpod, but I'd say that's enough for now. The comments, about 120 so far, were almost all positive, with a few people pointing out the fact that my speaking was a little but stilted (it's not easy to memorize things in a foreign tongue) and one guy calling shenanigans on my age (why, how old do I look for crying out loud?). My appearance was compared to this guy:
and this guy:

and that's why I thoroughly endorse Sony handicams, the only handicam that really can turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
I got a few job offers relatively quickly, but I'm still looking. I also got a few emails from middle and high school kids who were stressing out about studying English by themselves. I emailed them all recommending that they just focus on one piece of the language at a time, experiment with making new sentences whenever they can, and keep a notebook of things they can't say. Sound advice, I would say.
anyway, I'm already planning my second video attempt, a how-to video for people in Korea studying English. Sounds like a real crowd pleaser, no?

UCC video categories

I joined Daum.net, Korea's popular internet portal, and got a Hanmail email address, and I was uploading my resume when I noticed some interesting differences between the categories in Daum's user video service and Youtube's.

Youtube has the following genres/categories:

• Autos & Vehicles
• Comedy
• Entertainment
• Film & Animation
• Gadgets & Games
• Howto & DIY
• Music
• News & Politics
• People & Blogs
• Pets & Animals
• Sports
• Travel & Places

Daum TVpod categories:

• Stars
• Weird/Humor
• Sports
• Movies
• Commercial
• Dance
• Film
• Game
• Animation
• Military
• Parody
• Cars
• Emotional
• News
• Bragging
• Animals
• Cooking/Food
• Travel
• Children/Family
• Public Performance
• Presidential Election