Since neither have I nor the other officers had time to update our past meetings, I shall do it all NOW.
Here's the list of music we played the past couple of weeks. *NOT IN ORDER

We also had a few cultural lessons that I cannot remember of at the moment.

We introduced our list of music we would be performing at international week.
Wonder Girls - Be My Baby
BAP - Warrior
EXO-K - MAMA
BoA - Only One
and a secret song.

Korean exchange students came from Anyang to tour our school. They were all so nice! They're not that different from us. They also sleep in class, and love to play around with their friends as much as us. There were Kpop fans and just crazy about them as we are. It was grat to hang out with them during first to third period. They left the following Sunday, but they had lots of fun experiencing America and California for themselves. We want to congratulate those who are able to go to Korea during spring break for the Exchange Student Program. We hope you have lots of fun!

If you happened to miss out, we cooked the following items: 
Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Sesame Sauce
Korean Cucumber Salad
BBQ Chicken Drumettes with Sweet BBQ Sauce
Shrimp Pancakes
Glass Noodle and Vegetable Stir-fry
Spicy Pork Stir-fry
Everything was made so well by our own fellow club members, and a number of our officers; of course not without the help of Ms. Whiston and her lovely mother, Mrs. Whiston.

Everyone had such a fun time slicing and dicing, peeling, and cleaning(I cleaned). We had so much, there was enough for everyone to take home their own TO-GO box, AND a jar of homemade plum jam. How awesome is that? Afterwards, we all ate, took plenty of picture, and made a little video message for those who couldn't make it (check it out on our Facebook page if you haven't already!) We played the 'Human Knots" game. We all held hands, and had such a hard time untangling ourselves when Sarah didn't lead the way to untie us. It was so fun learning how to cook Korean food. Join us next time! You won't regret it!

Our club is ready for the holidays! We played 1SaGain & Fatdoo's "I Wish I Had One For Christmas". Further celebrating Christmas, we taught you guys how to say, "I want you for Christmas." 전 크리스마스에 너 원해요 Cheon keuliseumaseue (Christmasae) neo wonhaeyo. This gets all the ladies, people. ;D

Another lucky winner for this Christmas giveaway won TVXQ's Catch Me album! Congratulations Melanie! Treasure it well. </3 My heart hurts...Officers were not allowed in this giveaway, so my heart burns. Just as a quick reminder, tonight is the last night to sign up or change songs for International Week!!! We cannot accept changes after tonight! 12/18/12 11:59PM is the deadline for any changes!!! REMINDER! Tomorrow our club's retaking our club picture in the North gym during lunch! Wear your Korean Club shirt, OR wear red or blue! Be sure to be in the picture!!! We want to remember your lovely faces!

We have Cooking Day coming up! We are having it at Ms. Whiston's home in Long Beach. Due to privacy purposes, if you want the address, please check our Facebook here or message us for the address. It will be from (*time is subject to change) 10AM to 2PM (the hottest time of the day) Saturday on the 29th of December. It will cost members $2 and non-members $4 dollars. YES. We are still accepting club member applications.
Last week Sarah taught us what a Hanbok is and what it looked like. Today, we were able to bring in a REAL Hanbok for you guys to see. It was small and meant for children, but I hope you enjoyed seeing me try to squeeze in it. Thank you very much Ashley!
We ended our meeting with Orange Caramel ft. NU'EST's Dashing Through the Snow in Heels.

We wish you a Merry Christmas! Stay warm this Winter over Winter Break! <3 Have you been good all year? Instead of Santa, don't you wish Oppa came and gave you a present instead? :D

- Monique Nguyen
Korean Club President

Hello, everyone!

This is your Cultural/Project Chair, Sarah, speaking.  It's exciting to be posting on the webpage for the first time!

Anyway, this week I talked about Hanbok, the traditional Korean dress, and how it was a pretty good estimate of rank back in the day.

We looked at quite a few pictures that I took while in Korea.  Let's look at them again, shall we?

Paul Vu from Santiago High School is modeling a hanbok that was probably worn by someone of high ranking-- maybe an advisor to the king, or a nobleman.  We were actually in a former mayor's house, so this would probably have been his.  A general rule of thumb in looking at hanbok is the shinier, more embroidered, or brighter your hanbok is, the richer you probably are.  As you can see, this has quite a lot of embroidery, so it's a fair guess to say that he is pretty rich.  Generally, you would wear this with a square belt around your waist, but he's not quite done putting on his clothes yet (:

Mr. President of the Sister City Association of Garden Grove, Cam Mengels, is modeling an outfit that a nobleman would wear if he were to step out of his home for a while.  These clothes are generally reserved for outdoor strolls and whatnot for scholars or people of relatively high rank.

Bryan Vo, alumnus of La Quinta, is quietly contemplating the meaning of life in this traditional attire generally meant for boys.  The hat he wears shows that he is not yet a man.  If I remember correctly (I was lectured on this about 8 months ago; give me a break!), this is an outfit that a boy wears when he goes through his coming-of-age ceremony.

Here's a complete set!  Notice how Bryan Vo and Justin Valdez (second from left) are wearing different hats than Paul and Cam.  The hats that Bryan and Justin are wearing are hats for boys; the outfit that Justin is wearing is generally for sleep (if I remember correctly).  The hat that Paul is wearing is a hat that advisors to the king wears.  Cam's hat is for men of age or scholars.  The beads are supposed to symbolize something, but unfortunately, I can't remember what :(

Fortunately, girls are much easier to remember!

Remember how I said shiny = rich?  Here's where it comes into play!

This is a traditional wedding getup.  The red dots on Nancy Martinez's cheeks symbolize youth and virginity.  The wedding ceremony is pretty awesome.  I'll talk about it soon enough (:

Here's Lexi Gonzalez, modeling a very typical (and according to Lim Saebeom-unni, very plain) hanbok.  When you wear a hanbok, there is a skirt that you tie above your breasts and the outer jacket that you wear and tie up.  Notice the gold on her collar-- that shows that she has some wealth.

Unmarried girls aren't supposed to wear their hair up.  If you look back at Nancy, her hair is pinned up with a long stick going horizontally through her hair-- not so with unmarried girls.

Saebeom-unni is pointing at the traditional hairpiece on Julie Mai.  As she is unmarried, she leaves her hair down in a braid and is covered by a ribbon.  Notice all the shiny sparkly stuff on Julie's hanbok-- she has some money.  It might not be much, but it's some.

Here's Sally Duong, alumnus of Santiago High School, modeling her rich-woman attire.  Notice all of the bling-bling on that jacket, and how her hair is pinned up behind her.  This hanbok probably belonged to the wife of a nobleman.  What a lucky butt.

Here are all of the lovely ladies (:  Corinne Gonzalez, on the far right, is wearing a noblewoman's sleeping attire.  Ashley Gaxiola, in the middle, is about as rich as Sally.  Notice how their hanboks have two drapey thingies in front-- it's another difference between peasant hanbok and noblewoman hanbok.

Speaking of peasants, can anyone guess who the most peasantly person is in this picture?

If you guessed me (second from the left), you're right!  My hanbok has no bling bling at all and my hair is down and braided-- so not only am I poor, I'm unmarried.  In the ancient Korean world, I'd be at the bottom of the food chain.  :(  it's not like I wanted to be poor... none of the other hanbok fit me.

Anyway, if you look on the table in front of us you can see some other articles that Koreans used to wear.

Now that you know a little bit about hanbok, let's look at this scene from The Moon Embracing the Sun!

Just by glancing at the picture, you can tell that the two women on the right are richer.  Their clothes are glossier and the colors are just brighter.  You can also see that the girl in red is richer than the woman standing next to her-- there's much more embroidery on her collar and many more accessories in her hair.  Note that it isn't in a bun, though-- she is not yet married.

The young girl standing to the left has very dull clothes.  There is no bling bling in sight and her hair is worn down, with the ribbon in it.  She actually looks kind of like me, huh?  It turns out she's actually a servant girl.

That concludes my lesson on hanbok!  I hope you guys enjoyed this little spritz of culture (:

-Sarah Ho
Project Chair

As always, here's our opening MV. Brave Guys - Farther Away. Just a fun fact, this group is made from the members of Gag Concert.

"Na-wa hamke chum!" was the phrase we taught this week.  It mean "Let's dance together!"

It's that time of the year again!  Yes, we on our way toward preparing for International Week!
After a lot of discussion (and "heartbreaking moments"), we, officers, have put together a list of songs that are going to be in the show.

1. Brown Eyed Girls - Abracadabra
2. BoA - Only One
3. B.A.P - Warrior
4. EXO - MAMA

Plus two other "secret" songs (not available for sign-ups) that will be revealed later to the performers.

IMPORTANT UPDATE NOT MENTIONED IN THE MEETING: UNFORTUNATELY, due to lack of interest, officers are in the progress of changing the song Abracadabra (possibly replacing it). We will announce any changes made in the next meeting.

You can still sign up for International Week through personal-messaging on Facebook OR sign up directly at meetings OR provide your information on a piece of paper and hand it to an officer! Yes, you can still make changes but the deadline for everyone is on DECEMBER 18th, Tuesday 11:59PM.

[Sign-Up Form]
- Name:
- Grade:
- Song Choices: 
1.
2.

REMEMBER:
. You MUST be a member to participate in International Week. We will be checking. (And yes, you can still apply for membership by paying $3 and submitting your application to any officer at your own convenience.)
. Please do not learn the songs you have signed up for. This will make teaching the song easier for the officers and prevent conflicts from occurring.
. If you want to make any changes to your choices, personal message our Facebook or by telling officers at the meeting which song you want to change. (Example: I would like to change Only One to Warrior for my top choice.) 
. You do not have to pick two songs if you would only like one.
. Seniors do get priority.
. Between MAMA and Warrior, you can only choose either-or, but you CAN put both as your two choices.
. Please take note that officers have a set limit number of people for each dance so not everyone will be getting their top choice.
. More information next week!


Aside from all the International Week fun, we featured two music videos of the week: 

Park Gyuri's (KARA) Daydream 

NELL's White Night

We also had our yearbook club pictures taken on Thursday!
(And let just have a moment  to celebrate the number of males we have in the club this year /wipe tears/)

Hey guys! Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving break! I did. I love sleep. =u= So today we started off with showing you all the International Week suggestions we've had thus far.

Tonight is the last day to suggest songs!!!! Today, as in TUESDAY 11/27/12. We have International Week sign ups coming up so be sure to come to future meetings. Just a little quick reminder, if you want to participate in future events YOU MUST BE A MEMBER, (International Week, cooking bays, giveaways, etc.) Now that that's out of the way...We then showed TVXQ's Humanoids MV. OPPA. OMFG SO BEAUTFIUL. (Btw I'm a Cassie. hehe If you don't know what a Cassie is, I'm sorry you can't be my friend anymore. NAAAH JK)

I taught you lovelies how to say "I miss you" or literally "I want to see you." in Korean. There isn't a literally meaning for the word "miss" but it's more of the context that means it instead. Well it was "Bogoshipoyo" 보고 싶어요. You can copy and paste that baby into this link and hear in computerized Korean! :D Hooray internet!The Korean language seems very literal in what I've noticed and learned (not any formal kind of learning though). If you listen to SNSD's Gee there's a line in the chorus where they sing "Neomu banjjak banjjak nuni busyeo No No No No No" and it translates into "So bright so bright My eyes are blinded no no no no no" Notice that the word "nuni" means eyes. Now take notice that the word water is "mul" okay? Put them together and you get "nunmul" or "numuri". This word you heard so often in sad Kpop songs means "tears" or even literally EYE WATER. EYE WATER YOU GUYS, as in teardrops! Get it? Get it? In B1A4's MV "Tried to Walk" at around 2:10 you'll see the word "nunmuri" and see what I mean.

Sarah gave us a little insight on Korean dating via Simon and Martina~ Since high school students in Korea spend a vast majority studying (almost 14 hours!) every day, there isn't much socializing like here in North America. They usually wouldn't go into a bar and ask, "AYYY GUURL CAN I BUY YOU A DRINK?" They're just kind of...awkward. In Korean dramas, you'll see them go out on blind dates and such because maybe they're too awkward or shy to say anything. If you want to know more click on the above link~
We ended our meeting with 3 MVs Juniel - Bad Man, B1A4 - Tried to Walk, and Kim Sungkyu (from Infinite) 60 Seconds.

Have a nice week! No school on Friday!
- Monique Nguyen 
Korean Club President

We opened up the meeting with Son Dam Bi's long awaited comeback song "Tears Are Falling"

After, our very own vice president, Yen Nhi, gave us a recap of her experience at the SBS Concert last Saturday.

FYZZED orders also arrived today and our members are now snug and warm and all decked out in K-POP gear!

Moving on to International Week...
We showed last year's performance.

We also passed around a piece a paper for song suggestions and interest list for this year's International Week performance. 

What's that you ask? What's Pepero?

Pepero (빼빼로) is a cookie stick, dipped in chocolate syrup, manufactured by Lotte Confectionery (est. 1983). It is very similar to Pocky, a Japanese snack food, introduced in 1966 and produced by Glico, but hey they all taste good!

As of 2007, Pepero has been sold in 10 different flavors: regular or chocolate, strawberry-flavored, almond chocolate, nude (chocolate in the center), nude lemon cheese, cocoa, soft, cheese, "Woman in White" and "Man in Black", and chocolate covered pretzel sticks.

In case you were curious (YEEEAAAAH), Pepero Day is on November 11th (which is this Sunday!) because it resembles four Pepero sticks when written numerically (11/11). How cool is that? Anyway, Pepero Day is an observance in South Korea that's very similar to Valentine's Day. This contrived holiday is observed mostly by young people and couples, who exhange Pepero sticks, other candies, and other romantic gifts. According to one story, Pepero Day was started in 1994 by students at a girls' middle school in Busan, where they exchanged Pepero sticks as gifts to wish one another to grow "as tall and slender as a Pepero".
--ULTRA FUN FACT TIME! 
Did you know that Lotte does about 55% of their Pepero business in November every year?

Okay, moving onto other matters, we opened up the meeting with SM's dance sub-group Younique and their title track, "Maxstep".

Then, we played Girl's Day's comeback song "Don't Forget Me". 

Be sure to attend the talent show to see our lovely officers Monique and Sarah sing and dance to TaeTiSeo's Twinkle! Pre-sale is $5, at-the-door is $7, so buy early!

After that we played K-POPtionary (think charades, but with K-POP). So fun! Maybe you should play too!

Hey all! Halloween's passed now. I hope you all had a wonderful time at home or trick or treating. I finished some homework. Yay! We played Narsha's, "Bi Ri Bba Bba" as members came in. Food fair was the same day so not many members came, so we are grateful to those who did! <3 We opened up our meeting with an MV, as usual, with Epik High's, "Don't Hate Me".

Since our usual cultural teacher was selling for another club at Food Fair, our VP Yen Nhi took the pleasure to do so instead. In Korea, they actually do celebrate Halloween. It's actually very small scale though. It's more of people who DO know about will celebrate in scaring others or roam the streets like this image here (right). I'm not sure if there's candy invovled, but there definitely is some scaring.

We continued the meeting with a continuous show of creepy MVs. We're sorry if a few MVs have disturbed you or creeped you out, but HEY that's the spirit of Halloween! Our list of MVs include: Taeyang - I'll Be There, IU - MIA, Clazziquai - Flea, Sunnyhill - Prayer. Enjoy!

- Monique Nguyen
Korean Club President

We decided to show Sunnyhill's "Midnight Circus" in celebration of homecoming!

Orders for FYZZED have been finalized. ^^ We have already placed your order and are currently waiting for shipment.

Sorry it's such a small update. All of our officers have been so busy lately. Come to tomorrow's meeting for a special treat!

- Monique Nguyen
Korean Club President