Patricia Hului

10 travel bucket list ideas inspired by Korean variety show Running Man

Published on January 13, 2023

Travel

Now that international travelling is made possible again, are you looking for some unique travel bucket list ideas?

Korean variety show Running Man is a reality-variety show concept that focused on games.

It has been airing since July 11, 2010 making it one of the longest running Korean variety shows.

The show even made it to the list of Business Insider’s 20 TV Shows of 2016.

The current members are Yoo Jae-suk, HaHa, Jee Seok-jin, Kim Jong-kook, Song Ji-hyo, Jeon So-min and Yang Se-chan.

Over the years, the show has invited hundred of guests including Hollywood stars Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg and Ryan Reynolds.

On top of that, Running Man has also filmed in countless number of different locations both in and out of South Korea.

So here are ten travel bucket list ideas inspired by Korean variety show Running Man:

1.Shop at a Floating Market in Thailand

The first country that the Running Man cast visited for filming is Thailand back in 2011.

During that episode, one of their filming spot is the Pattaya Floating Market.

Located in the heart of Pattaya, this market offers delicacies and handicrafts from four different regions of Thailand.

Let say that you are not in Pattaya but in the capital city of Bangkok, you have up to 17 different floating markets to choose from.

This list include Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Amphawa Floating Market, Wat Sai Floating Market and more.

2.Visit the Great Wall of China

After the successful episode in Thailand, the Running Man cast visited another country in the same year, China.

Besides playing a string of games around Beijing city, the cast members also visited the Great Wall of China.

Do you know that some of these walls were built from as early as the 7th century with some of the stretches later joined by the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang during 220-206?

This historical site is a definitely a must-visit place in any travel bucket lists.

3.Go for the highest commercial bungee jump in the world from Macau Tower

10 travel bucket list ideas inspired by Korean variety show Running Man — Song Ji-hyo bungee jumping from Macao Tower

The episode that the Running Man filmed in Macau is one of the most talked about years down the road all thanks to one legendary scene.

The only female of the group back then, actress Song Ji-hyo was the only cast member who bungee jumped from Macau Tower in the 2013 episode.

With a wide smile on her pretty face while showing as many teeth that she could, Song was seen happily bungee jumped from a platform 233m above the ground point.

Apart from Song, there were many other celebrities who went for the same adventure including Edison Chen, Jack Osbourne, Xie Na and Joe Chen.

Watch the clip here.

4.Skydiving in Dubai

During an episode filmed in Dubai, Kim Jong-kook along with two celebrity guests Jung Il-woo and Lee Da-hae did something that only meant for thrill-seekers out there.

The trio did sky-jumping. After returning to the ground, all of three of them agreed that it is something that you need to do at least once before you die.

With majestic desert landscape, skydiving in Dubai is absolutely an unforgettable experience.

While you are in Dubai, might as well go for the world’s longest urban zipline.

Xline Dubai Marina offers adventurers an experience to ride on a zipline at 170 meters high from the ground, sliding up to 80km/hour for 1 km long.

5.Opt for a paranormal experience at Labyrinth of Fear; Japan’s Most Terrifying Haunted House

How about a dose of paranormal fear added on your travel bucket list?

The Super Scary Labyrinth of Fear (yes, that is the full name) is one of the two haunted attractions in Fuji-Q Highland.

It is a theme park located near the base of Mount Fuji.

The labyrinth holds the record for the world’s first and largest haunted attraction covering a two-storey building with 900m in length.

The attraction is inspired from a legend of a popular hospital where doctors were accused of selling internal organs of their patients. Unsurprisingly, the spirits of the dead victims came back to haunt and avenge their own deaths.

Running Man had done many horror-theme episodes before but this one definitely took the cake.

We were not surprised at all to see Jeon So-min in tears at the end of her scary labyrinth tour.

Watch the clip here.

6.Ride a manual wooden cable car over the crashing waves of Timang Beach at Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Timang Beach in Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta is like any other beaches in Indonesia at first glance.

What makes it different is that there is an island called Panjang Island which is a lobster habitat.

The island is the best place to catch lobster for the local community.

But due to the steep hill that is directly adjacent to the sea, crossing over to the island is not an easy task.

Hence, the locals built a wooden cable car fit only for one person which is driven on a rope connecting the beach to the top of the island.

The 200-meter long ride is not a big deal unless there is a raging sea beneath you and huge waves that keep on crashing on your cable car just like what it did to Lee Kwang-soo and Jeon So-min in the 369th till 371th episode of Running Man.

Watch the clip here

7.Get into the Cage of Death at Darwin, Australia

During the 378th and 379th episodes of Running Man, Yoo Jae-suk, Ji Suk-jin, Lee Kwang-soo and Jeon So-min went to Darwin, Australia.

There, they had to complete the mission of going into the Cage of Death.

The Cage of Death is a tourist attraction known for being Australia’s only crocodile dive.

This unique experience offers swimmers the chance to get up and close and personal with saltwater crocodile for 15 minutes.

In that short (or long) period of time depending on how you see it, swimmers can stare into the eyes of this famous predator while witnessing the power of his bite force.

Watch the clip here.

8.Take a swing at one of the world’s biggest swing, Nevis Swing

While half of the team were in Darwin, the rest of the members were in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Flinging people in an arc out over 300 meters, Nevis Swing is undoubtedly catered to adrenaline suckers.

You can choose swing by yourself or tandem with a friend – forwards, backwards or upside down like Song Ji-hyo and Kim Jong-kook did during their trip.

Later, Song revealed in a show that Kim and her had to go on the swing twice because the first time they rode the swing, the camera was not rolling.

Watch the clip here.

9.Visit Switzerland to walk on the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the Alps

During the 540th episode of Running Man, HaHa and actress Kang Han-na were chosen to take up the mission of hiking the world’s longest suspension bridge.

Despite their fear and constant complaints from HaHa, the unlikely duo successfully finished the mission.

The bridge that they crossed is the Charles Kuonen Bridge. It is the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge, giving walkers the view of 86 meters above the ground at its highest point.

It is a record-breaking 494 meters long connecting Grachen and Zermatt on the Europaweg foot trail.

Located near the village of Randa, the bridge provides views of Matterhorn, Weisshorn and the Bernese Alps in the distance.

10.Wing Walking in England

Have you heard of wing walking? Lee Kwang-soo, Yoo Jae-suk and Lee Da-hee had the opportunities to do so during their trip to England.

The experience took them 10-minute flying while being strapped to the top of a plane while flying 500 feet above the ground.

After the episode was aired in 2018, many viewers expressed their concern over the activities raising the question if the production team had went to far.

The then production director assured that wing walking is totally safe and it is a leisure sport that has not seen an accident in 30 years.

Watch the clip here.

So which travel bucket ideas would you pick? Let us know in the comment box.

Taboos and customs around death during childbirth among the Dayaks in Borneo

Published on January 4, 2023

Culture

In the olden days, cases of dying during childbirth were not uncommon. With lack of modern medical knowledge and hygiene, it was not rare for women to experience complications while giving birth.

Most cultures around the world have their own taboos and customs for women who died during labour.

For instance in Japan, one traditional custom for the burial of a deceased pregnant woman was commonly practiced.

According to Manami Yasui in her paper Research Notes: On Burial Customs, Maternal Spirits, and the Fetus in Japan (2003), the burial custom was to open the abdomen of the deceased woman, remove the fetus, and bury the two – now separated – bodies together in the same graves.

It is said that this custom was practiced so that the pregnant women would not turn into ‘ubume’.

Taboos and customs around death during childbirth among the Dayaks in Borneo — An image of ubume as depicted by Toriyama Sekien. Credit: Public Domain.

Ubume are Japanese yokai or spirits of pregnant women. Legend has it that the ubume would ask a passerby to hold her child for just a moment, disappearing when her unsuspecting victims take the swaddled baby.

The baby then becomes increasingly heavy until it is impossible to hold. It is then revealed not to be a human child but a rock or a stone image of Jizo (a bodhisattva revered in East Asian Buddhism).

Meanwhile in Borneo, different indigenous groups each has its own belief when comes to women who died in childbirth.

In order to ensure these poor mothers have safe journeys into the afterlife, there were taboos or customs that needed to be followed.

So here are some forgotten taboos and customs of death during childbirth among Borneo natives:

1.Iban

Anthropologist Clifford Sather in his paper The Malevolent Koklir: Iban Concepts of Sexual Peril and the Dangers of Childbirth detailed the ritual of death during childbirth among the Iban people.

“The death of a woman in childbirth is regarded as especially grievous because it typically claims a woman in her prime, or middle years, whose loss seriously disrupts her family, usually leaving a widower and possibly motherless children.

As a ritual defence, to cripple the ghost and prevent the woman who has died in childbirth from wandering abroad as a koklir, the soles of her feet and the palms of her hands are pierced diagonally with citrus thorns (duri limau) immediately before her body is removed from her bilek apartment and placed inside the sapat enclosure on the gallery prior to burial. Plants have generally a life-sustaining meaning to the Iban and thorns are frequently used, as here, as a protective instrument against demonic spirits.

Piercing the soles and palms is felt to be an unpleasant task and generally falls to one of the women’s closest female relatives, usually her mother or a sister; it is performed surreptitiously so as not to be seen by other mourners, and is accompanied by a brief prayer in which the dead woman is requested to accept her fate and not cause further grief to her family and others.

Some informants say that the woman’s tongue may also be pierced with a needle or porcupine quill. Otherwise, she is given a normal burial, except that citrus branches are sometimes placed upon her grave. But owing to the especially grievous nature of her death, it is considered to be abnormally ill-lucked, and her soul is believed in consequence to suffer a separate fate in the other world, different from that of those who have died ordinary deaths.”

Now comes the question of what happens to the baby once the mother has died.

Sadly, according to one old custom, this child – although alive – would share the same fate as his dead mother.

Reverend Frederick William Leggatt came to Sarawak in 1884 and had worked among the Ibans at Banting (1885-1887), Skrang (1887-1898) and lastly Lundu (1898-1908).

This is an example case infanticide that he observed following the death of the mother.

“Sea Dyaks custom required (until a civilised government interfered to prevent such atrocious murders), that if the death of a mother followed in consequence of delivery, the child should pay the penalty (i) as being the cause of the mother’s death, (ii) because no one remained to nurse and care for it. Therefore the child was placed alive in the coffin with the mother, and both buried together, not unfrequently without consulting the father, who might venture to dare custom and be willing to spare his child. No woman would consent to suckle such an orphan lest it should bring misfortune upon her own children.

“One case I am acquainted with where the mother, in the father’s absence, gave birth to twins and died immediately afterwards. By the grandfather’s orders (the paternal grandfather) both children were buried with the mother.”

2.Dayak Embaloh

Victor T. King in his paper Cursing, Special Death and Spirits in Embaloh Society explained how the death of a woman during delivery is handled traditionally among the Dayak Embaloh of the West Kalimantan.

“Pregnancy and childbirth are hedged round with all kinds of taboo. In Embaloh society a high percentage of deaths is the result of complications in childbirth and pregnancy, and women, their husbands and the immediate family are confined by taboos (tata’) relating to food, to certain work and action, and to avoidance of certain animals. If a woman should die in childbirth her soul invariably becomes a much-feared, malevolent spirit called antu anak.

This spirit delights in seeking revenge and bringing sickness and sometimes death to pregnant women, as well as to mothers and their small children. It can also attack men at night and devour their genitals, the symbol and ultimate cause of the spirit’s demise in life. To a man the antu anak frequently appears in the guise of a beautiful woman, but it can also change into a variety of furry animals such as the monkey, squirrel and civet cat.

“The corpse of a woman who dies in delivery or when pregnant is wrapped in a rattan mat, taken as quickly as possible from the village and buried in the jungle away from the death-house. There are no ceremonies, the soul does not go to Telung, and any status a woman may have had in life is immediately cancelled. She is, in fact condemned to an eternity as an evil jungle spirit.”

3.Kayan

According to Jerome Rousseau in his book Kayan Religion, a Kayan woman who dies in childbirth should be buried immediately because she becomes a particularly fearsome spirit.

“People often fled after a sudden death, leaving old men and women to dispose of the corpse.”

The spirits of children and mothers who died in childbirth are known as the to’ ka’.

Explaining about these fearsome spirit, Rousseau stated, “These angry spirits tear off young men’s testicles and eat them. They can take the form of wild or domestic fowl, a mousedeer, or a civet cat.”

The fear of to’ ka’ is might be the reason why this now-extinct practice existed among the Kayans back then.

As what Spenser St John recorded in his book, “Among the Kayans I may mention one inhuman custom, which is, that women who appear to be dying in childbirth are taken to the woods and placed in a hastily-constructed hut; they are looked upon as interdicted and none but the meanest slaves may approach them, either to give them food or to attend to them.”

Are ‘Kelabit’ and ‘Melanau’ results of a misspelling?

Published on January 1, 2023

Culture

These authors claim that the names for ethnic groups – Kelabit and Melanau – were unexpected results from misspellings.

The Melanau people

Are ‘Kelabit’ and ‘Melanau’ results of a misspelling? — In the olden days, when a Melanau child was about a month old, its head would be placed in a wooden device called the Tadal, the objective of which was to flatten the forehead and make the face as near the shape of a full moon as possible. The pressure would only be applied while the child was asleep. Credit: Creative Commons

The Melanau people are an ethnic group indigenous to Sarawak. During the 19th century, they settled dominantly along the main tributaries of the Rajang River in central part of Sarawak.

John Beville Archer, the former chief secretary of Sarawak claimed in his autobiography Glimpses of Sarawak between 1912 and 1946 that the word ‘Melanau’ was a result of misspelling.

“I see that I have been rather dictatorial about the spelling of the world Melanau. As a matter of fact the correct word should be ‘Lemanau’. It is said the spelling of the word ‘Melanau’ is a hundred year old mistake. Apparently an old writer had such an illegible hand that the mistake occurred and has never been put right. In any case, the name as applying to the whole race is merely a modern idea. It is not used by the people themselves except when dealing with Government Officials and Chinese.”

The Kelabit people

Meanwhile, Sagau Batu Bala in his book Kelabits’ Story the Great Transition (2012) claimed that British zoologist and ethnologist Charles Hose was responsible for the misspelling.

The Kelabit people are the indigenous people of Borneo highlands. They have close ties to the Lun Bawang people.

According to Sagau, the mistake could be traced back to the early 20th century.

“In 1901, a group of Pa’ Labid people went down to Marudi on business. This was one of the first groups of people from the Highlands who went to Marudi after Baram became part of Sarawak. This group of Kelabits wanted to show that they were responsible subjects of the Rajah of Sarawak. They went to identify themselves and, at the same time, pay courtesy call on the newly appointed resident in his office in Fort Hose. The building of Fort Hose had just been completed in 1901 on the bank of Baram River at Marudi. When they met Charles Hose in his office, he wanted to know what race they were, as he had been instructed by the Raja of Sarawak earlier.

“He asked them, ‘Kamu dari mana?’ It means, ‘Where are you from?’ Because they were from their village called Pa’ Labid, the leader of the group answered and said, ‘Pa’ Labid.’ Charles Hose asked them again, ‘Apa bangsa kamu?’ It means, ‘What is your race?’ The leader answered and said, ‘Orang Pa’ Labid’ because they were Lun Pa’ Labid or the people of Pa’ Labid. He was right in saying that because there was no single race name for all the people who lived in the Highlands at the source of Baram River. It was Charles Hose who misheard the word Pa’ Labid, when he wrote the first letter ‘P’ became ‘K’ and the last letter ‘d’ became ‘t’, and he wrote down in his record book ‘Kalabit’.

“He accepted it to mean a race for all the people who lived in the Highlands south of all the people who lived in the Highlands south of Mount Murud. From that time onwards, Kalabit became officially the race of the people who occupied the Highlands at the source of Baram River the border of Forth and Fifth Divisions and right along the border of Sarawak and Kalimantan until today.”

What do you think of these misspellings KajoReaders?

KajoPicks: 10 Korean dramas and movies starring Park Bo-young you should watch

Published on December 29, 2022

Entertainment

If there is one word to summarize South Korean actress Park Bo-young’s acting career, we would say it is ‘versatile’.

She has never failed to impress her viewers in every role that she takes, be it in a melodrama, horror or even romantic comedy.

Here are 10 K-dramas and movies starring Park Bo-young you should watch:

1.Scandal Makers (2008)

This movie was so successful that it had Argentine, Chinese and Indian remakes which were released in 2010, 2016 and 2020 respectively.

Scandal Makers (2008) follows the story of Nam Hyun-soo (Cha Tae-hyun), a popular radio DJ who once a more popular teen star.

One day, his doorbell rings and there stand a young lady named Hwang Jung-nam (Park Bo-young) and a young boy named Ki-dong (Wang Suk-hyun).

Jung-nam reveals to Hyun-soo that she is his daughter and her son Ki-dong is his grandson.

Hyun-soo refuses to believe her at first but then forced to accept the truth after a DNA test confirmed what Jung-nam has claimed.

Things get complicated when the daughter and father pair are mistaken to be romantically involved.

This was director Kang Hyeong-cheol’s first ever film and it became the highest grossing Korean movie in 2008.

The film earned Park numerous awards including Best New Actress in Film and Most Popular Actress (Film) in Baeksang Arts Awards 2009 and Best New Actress awards at Blue Dragon Film Awards as well as at Chunsa Film Art Awards.

Watch the trailer here.

2.A Werewolf Boy (2012)

Most people would agree that A Werewolf Boy (2012) served as the breakout role for Korean actor Song Joong-ki in which he plays the role of a feral boy who behaves like a wild beast.

However Park, we must say, also brought so much to the table in the movie.

In the movie, she plays the role of the teenage girl who tries to befriends and attempts to civilize Song’s character.

The movie surpassed 7 million admissions to become one of the most successful Korean melodramas of all time.

Again, Park won several awards for her role including the Best Actress at the 4th Pierson Movie Festival.

Watch the trailer here.

3.Hot Young Bloods (2014)

From a fantasy-romance film A Werewolf Boy, Park offered something different in this movie which is more relatable to most people.

Hot Young Bloods is a teen romantic comedy film that depicts the loves, rivalries and friendships among four high school students.

Set in Hongseong County, Sout Chungcheong Province in 1982, Park plays the role of Young-sook.

She is the feared leader of a female gang at Hongseong Agricultural High School.

Despite her tough attitude, she is secretly harbouring crush with the school’s biggest playboy in school Joong-gil (Lee Jong-suk).

When a new female transfer student from the big city of Seoul comes to this rural town, it changes the whole dynamic of the school.

Since her character swears so much in the movie, Park later revealed in an interview that she did have fun swearing especially in a dialect.

Overall, the film is a fun, coming-of-age film that pretty nostalgic for those viewers who grew up in the 80s.

Watch the trailer here.

4.Oh My Ghost! (2015)

After seven years of absence from the small screen, Park takes up the leading role in romantic comedy drama series Oh My Ghost! (2015).

What makes this role different from Park’s previous works is that she actually play two characters in the series.

Na Bong-sun (Park Bo-young) is a loner who has an extremely timid personality and low self-esteem.

Due to this, she constantly getting reprimanded at her job as an assistant chef at Sun Restaurant.

Her life changes when she gets possessed by a lustful virgin ghost named Shin Soon-ae (Kim Seul-gi).

Believing that only by losing her virginity that she will be able to move on to the afterlife, Soon-ae is determined to seduce as many men as she can while she is possessing Bong-sun’s body.

Viewers find it entertaining to watch as Park switching between her two characters, the timid Bong-sun and the cheerful Soon-ae.

The drama was a commercial and critical hit and earning Park the Best Actress award at the 4th APAN Star Awards.

Her impressive role in this rom-com also garnered her reputation as the ‘romantic comedy queen’ by the Korean press.

Watch the trailer here.

5.Collective Invention (2015)

The Collective Invention is a 1934 painting by Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte. It depicts a fish merged with a woman’s legs stranded on the beach. It supposed to be a mockery of the traditional mermaid where he removed the beauty by depicting the opposites.

Writer and director Kwon Oh-kwang was so inspired by this painting that he created a character similar to the painting in his film Collective Invention (2015).

It follows the story of Park Gu (Lee Kwang-soo) who decides to take part in a clinical test for a pharmaceutical company for 300,000 won.

The medical experiment gone horribly wrong turning Park Gu into a half-fish, half-human mutant.

After escaping from the laboratory, the poor man visits a woman with whom he had a one-night stand.

But the woman Ju-jin (Park Bo-young) sells him back to the pharmaceutical company.

During the press conference of the film, Park shared that she participated in the film to highlight some of the social issues that influenced the movie plots.

Director Kwon revealed that he adapts various social issues to make the movie such as Hwang Woo-suk’s cloning scandal, the MBC TV union workers’ stroke and high youth unemployment rate. Hwang was a professor of theriogenology and biotechnology who had claimed to create human embryonic stem cells by cloning.

This black comedy film was screened in the Vanguard section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Watch the trailer here.

6.The Silenced (2015)

When asked why did she took up the role in The Silenced (2015), Park answered, “Ju-ran’s range of emotion in the movie is very deep and wide, and she is very different at the beginning and end of the film. This was a film that made me test my limits.”

In the movie, the actress plays a student in an isolated girls’ boarding school where its students begin to show strange symptoms and disappear one by one.

Park’s character Ju-ran’s worries are dismissed by the teachers but she too begins to show some of the strange symptoms.

The film set in Gyeongseong in 1938 during the Japanese occupation.

Overall, this mystery-thriller film failed to impress the critics.

According to The Korea Herald that despite the disappointing plot, the leading ladies Park Bo-young, Uhm Ji-won and Park So-dam leave a lasting impression, commenting, “The Silenced ultimately fails in its overambitious attempt to combine box office-friendly action and thrills with picturesque emotion but it remains engaging thanks to its excellent cast.”

Watch the trailer here.

7.Strong Girl Dong-soon (2016)

KajoPicks: 10 Korean dramas and movies starring Park Bo-young you should watch

Do Bong-soon (Park Bo-young) was born with superhuman strength, a trait that is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family.

In the same time, her dream is to create a video game with herself as the main character.

She generally hides her super strength from people around her especially from her crush In Guk-doo (Ji Soo).

One day, her unusual power is accidentally found out by rich heir and CEO of a gaming company Ahn Min-hyuk (Park Hyung-sik) who subsequently hired her as a personal bodyguard.

The series was a commercial hit and became one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television history.

There are so many things we love about this drama including the chemistry on-screen between Park Bo-young and Park Hyung-sik and the suspense and the mystery behind Bong-soon’s neighbourhood.

Watch the trailer here.

8.On Your Wedding Day (2018)

For this rom-com film, Park reunites with her former castmate from Hot Young Bloods (2014) Kim Young-kwang.

It follows the story of Hwang Woo-yeon (Kim Young-kwang) who receives a wedding invitation from his first love from high school.

From there, he starts to reminisce all the things he went through to be with her and the ups and downs they had together.

Park plays the role of Hwan Seung-hee, Hwang’s first love.

With a simple plot line and amazing storytelling by the director as well as impressive performance by the cast, the film was a box office hit and unsurprisingly received positive reviews.

Watch the trailer here.

9.Abyss (2019)

This drama is one of our top picks for Korean reincarnation series.

Go Se-yeon (Park Bo-young) is a beautiful prosecution lawyer at the top of her game, and Cha Min is her friend, an unattractive but rich heir to a cosmetics empire.

They are both revived into different bodies by supernatural beings using an “Abyss” after their deaths in separate incidents.

The “Abyss” is a celestial object which has the power to revive anything that has died; the reincarnated bodies take on the appearance of that person’s soul.

Go Se-yeon takes on a ‘plainer’ appearance, whilst Cha Min becomes very attractive and young; virtually the opposite of before.

They start working together to find out the reason for their revival and who caused Go Se-yeon’s death.

Watch the trailer here.

10.Doom At Your Service (2021)

Tak Dong-kyung (Park Bo-young), an editor for a web novel company who lives a fairly ordinary life until she stumbles into an unexpected fate.

All in a single day, she finds out she is dying from glioblastoma and has only three months to live, learns that her boyfriend is a father-to-be and has a wife, gets scolded by her superior at work, and is spied on by a pervert before the pervert falls into a sinkhole.

As she drinks her problems away, she happens to see a shooting star from her rooftop apartment and drunkenly wishes for the world to be doomed.

Her unusual wish is heard by Myul Mang (Seo In-guk) a messenger between gods and humans.

He was born between dark and light: when he breathes, countries disappear; when he walks, the seasons collapse; when he smiles, a life is extinguished.

All he has to do is exist for something to fall into ruin. This is not his intention but simply his fate.

On his birthday, he gets to choose a human’s wish to fulfill.

Sick of his fate, he chooses to fulfill Dong-kyung’s wish to end the world.

Dong-kyung ends up signing a hundred-day contract with Myul Mang, risking everything she has ever known.

Watch the trailer here.

Upcoming projects starring Park Bo-young

Fans of Park Bo-young can look forward for her working with Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-joon in an upcoming South Korean disaster-thriller film.

Directed by Um Tae-hwa, the film is based on the second part of webtoon Pleasant Bullying by Kim Sung-nik which is about an earthquake destruction and its aftermath.

Our beloved actress will also star in a Netflix Original drama Daily Dose of Sunshine taking the lead role of Jung Da-eun.

The drama is based on the actual real-life experiences of a psychiatric nurse and will revolve around the story of nurse Jung.

Director Lee Jae-gyoo who directed the incredibly successful Netflix horror series All of Us Are Dead will direct the series.

The first submarines that entered Sarawak waters

Published on December 21, 2022

Culture

Do you know that about a century ago three submarines actually made their ways into Sarawak waters?

On Mar 1, 1922, The Sarawak Gazette reported that HM Submarines L1, L2 and L3 arrived in Kuching on Feb 24 under the command of Lieutenant-Commander A.B Greig of L3.

The first submarines that entered Sarawak waters — HMS L1

“They berthed alongside the Ban Hok Wharf and through the courtesy of the officers, a number of people including the Datus and other natives, were enabled to go over the ships during their stay,” the report stated.

Rajah Vyner Brooke even organised a ‘most enjoyable dance’ at the Astana in honour of their visit on Feb 25.

The locals also managed to get in few rounds of football matches with the visiting submarine crew.

During their stay in Kuching, the Hockien School at the head of Jalan Tabuan was converted into shore quarters for them.

These submarines were bound for Jesselton (present-day Kota Kinabalu) before making their ways to Manila.

The submarine L2 left Sarawak on Feb 28 while the other two submarines on Mar 1, 1922.

If camera phones were exist back then, we bet there would be tonnes of photos coming out from this historical visit.

So what happened to these submarines in the end?

HMS L1, L2 and L3 were L-class submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War I. All three survived the war.

By 1923, all of the three submarines placed in the reserve flotilla in Hong Kong.

In March 1930, HMS L1 was stranded at Penanwell Cove in Cornwell England while being towed to Newport.

She was scrapped where she lay and some of her metal remains can still be seen there today on low spring tides.

Meanwhile, HMS L2 was also sold for scrapping in March 1930. About a year later, HMS L3 found herself in similar fate being sold for scrapping in February 1931.

All images are under public domain.

5 famous dishes from leftovers

Published on December 16, 2022

Lifestyle

Everyone who has spend their time in the kitchen at some point would get creative with any leftovers found in the fridge.

Interestingly, some of these dishes later became iconic recipes on their own.

Here are five famous dishes that you might not know come from leftovers:

1.Paella

5 famous dishes from leftovers — Photo by Joshua Miranda from Pexels

This is one of the best-known dishes in Spanish cuisine. It takes its name from the wide, shallow traditional pan used to cook the dish on an open fire ‘paella’. It is the word for frying pan in Valencian language.

Legends has it that this iconic Spanish dish was created by Moorish kings’ servants who mixed leftovers from royal banquets in large pots to take home.

Another version of the origin story is that paella was a dish made during lunchtime meals for farmers and farm labourers in Valencia, Spain. The labourers would gather what was available around them at the rice fields.

Whatever they could mix into the rice such as tomatoes, onions and snails were put into the pan and cooked over an open fire.

The traditional version from the Valencia region is widely believed to be the original recipe of paella.

It consists of rice, green beans, rabbit, beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sometimes duck cooked in olive oil and chicken, fish, seafood or beef broth.

2.Bibimbap

Although the exact origin of bibimbap is unknown, many agree that it could have started during the olden days when outdoor rites were widely performed.

Traditionally rites such as sansinje (rite for mountain gods) or dongsinje (rite for village gods) required the believers to ‘eat with the god’.

Since these rites were performed outside where there were not many pots or crockery, they would mix all the food offerings together in a bowl before eating it.

Bibimbap became famous among the Koreans especially during the eve of the lunar new year.

Since they believed that they had to get rid of all the leftover side dishes before the brand new year, the solution was to put all the leftover in a bowl of rice and mix them together.

Today, fans of Korean food do not have to attend a traditional rite or wait for the eve of lunar new year to enjoy a bowl of bibimbap.

A typical bibimbap contains rice, soy bean sprouts, mushrooms, radish, egg, gochujang, sesame oil and sesame seeds.

3.Chinese Fried rice

Today whenever we have leftover rice, the most common thing to do is to make fried rice out of it.

Apparently, the Chinese have been doing it since the Sui dynasty (589-618 CE).

The rice is cooked with other leftover foods such as meat and vegetables.

Usually if these leftovers go bad, they would feed it to the animals. If the foods are still good to consume, they whip out something hot from it and that was how fried rice came about.

4.Chazuke or ochazuke

Speaking of leftover rice, there is one simple dish that everyone can make at home even those who are lack of culinary skill.

Chazuke or orchazuke is a simple Japanese dish made by pouring green tea, dashi or hot water over cooked rice.

It is taken as a quick snack which now is commonly topped with nori (seaweed), sesame seeds, furikake and tsukeono (Japanese pickles).

The history of chazuke can be traced back to the Heian period of Japan (794-1185) when water was commonly poured over rice.

Then during the Edo period (1603-1867), people started to use tea instead.

5.Pain Perdu

Most people are not familiar with the French phrase pain perdu but only its English cousin French toast.

Pain perdu literally translates ‘lost bread’, referring to the use of stale bread that would otherwise be lost.

The original French toast is known to come with a crisp buttery exterior and a soft custody interior.

Although the name is French, some believe that France did not come up with the dish.

The idea of soaking bread in a milk and egg mixture and then fry it in oil or butter can be traced back as early as the Roman Empire from the early 5th century AD.

Regardless of who created it, French toast is definitely our favourite way to make something new out of a leftover bread.

The sad life of Dr Zo, the Jewish government dentist during Brooke’s time

Published on December 13, 2022

Culture

The sad life of Dr Zo, the Jewish government dentist during Brooke's time

As we go through old memoirs written by those who had served in Sarawak, be it during the Brooke administration or the British colony, there are indeed countless fascinating stories.

And what makes these old stories more fascinating are the people behind them.

Naturally, these people don’t feature in our textbooks because of the minor roles they played in our history, but that doesn’t make their life stories less interesting to learn or read about.

Kenelm Hubert Digby published his memoir Lawyer in the Wilderness about his life in Sarawak in 1980.

In his book, he told us plenty of stories that took place from the middle of 1934 to the end of 1951.

One of those stories was about the first medical officer appointed at Batu Lintang Camp during the Japanese occupation of Sarawak.

According to Digby, the doctor was a Jewish refugee from Germany who had served in the Prussian cavalry in the First World War.

“He was primarily a dentist by profession, but he was also qualified to practice as a doctor in Germany. This qualification was not recognized in Sarawak, but in 1939 he had obtained a contract as Government Dentist,” Digby wrote.

On how he ended up in Sarawak and became a dentist here, Digby did not explain.

Digby didn’t even share the dentist’s real name other than stating that he was generally known as ‘Zo’ due to his frequent use of that German exclamation.

Apart from that, Digby shared that Dr Zo was a very amiable man whose principal interest was music.

Dr Zo, the Jewish doctor in a Japanese POW camp

When the Japanese landed in Kuching on Christmas Eve in 1941. Dr Zo was quickly interned at Batu Lintang Camp along with the rest of the Europeans.

Digby narrated, “In the early days of the occupation was detained with the other European members of the Medical Department in the General Hospital. He was sent to the police station to tend the wounds of the “Astana Party,” and thereafter he stayed with us and acted as our medical officer, until the other doctors were brought to Lintang in or about August 1943. Zo did great and good work amongst us, with the very minimum of medicines and equipment and in the face of a barrage of unreasoning hostility.”

Since Dr Zo had served in the German Army before, Digby claimed his military training was ‘always coming to the fore’.

He wrote, “Most of us were satisfied with our status as civilians and did our best to offer moderate passive resistance to the military discipline which was imposed upon use. Many of us had never been soldiers and with the best will in the world, which we by no means possessed, we would have had great difficulty in comprehending the working of the military mind. When it was a Japanese mind as well our difficulty was greater still, Zo ,however, had no such worries. His background and upbringing had made him extremely receptive to military command, and it was in his nature to obey without question any instruction emanating from a gentleman of sufficiently martial appearance. He seemed to realise what our masters were doing and why they did it. One obtained the impression that, their cruelty apart, he would have given the same sort of orders if he had been in their place.”

During his interment at Batu Lintang Camp, Dr Zo volunteered his service at the camp ‘hospital’.

Digby pointed out that Dr Zo did excellent work there in spite the filthy conditions in which the patients were housed and the almost total absence of medicine.

“He pulled several teeth out without any sort of anesthetic,” he stated.

Dr Zo and his life after the war

According to Digby, Dr Zo’s services to His Majesty’s subjects received poor recognition.

After the war, he returned to England on the same boat with most of the Europeans from Sarawak.

Unfortunately for Dr Zo, he was arrested at London and once again repeated his WWII nightmare of being placed behind barbed wire.

Digby wrote, “Only the valiant efforts of the Sarawak Government Agent secured his release after three weeks. Even then he was not given his full ration of clothing coupons and turned up to dine with me at a Piccadilly restaurant in curious and borrowed apparel. He was not permitted to travel more than five miles from his residence without police permission, and so, since he was far too proud to seek such permission, he was debarred from visiting his friends who lived outside London.”

Dr Zo and his sad life ending

The depressing part of Dr Zo’s story is where he ended up after the war.

When he was living in Kuching, Zo had a wife and a seven-year-old son.

Shortly before the Japanese landed, he managed to evacuate his family through Kalimantan.

The mother and son somehow managed to reach Java.

Sadly, Zo’s wife committed suicide in Java and later his son was adopted by a Dutch couple.

Zo’s unfortunate fate did not stop there as his son was killed by Indonesian insurgents soon after that.

At the last part about Zo in his book, Digby wrote, “Like the rest of us, Zo had come home immensely looking forward to reunion with his family, and, when the sad story was told to him after his release from the British internment camp, he was a broken man. He resented bitterly the treatment which England was according to him and went to Sweden, where he died at the end of 1949. I was invited to write an obituary for the Sarawak Gazette, but my account of his persecution was deemed to be unprintable, and so my contribution was rejected.”

Since what Digby wrote for his obituary never saw light of day, we can only imagine what the content was.

A quirky story of Bishop Francis Hollis being interrogated during WWII

Published on December 2, 2022

Culture

Bishop Francis Hollis (1884-1955) was a British clergyman in the Anglican church.

He first came to Sarawak in 1916 to serve as assistant priest at the St. Thomas Cathedral at Kuching until 1923.

Hollis then served among the Bidayuh at St James Church Quop for five years. In 1928, Hollis was appointed as the Principal of St Thomas’ School where he held the position for the next five years.

Then in 1934, he was made Archdeacon of Sarawak before his consecration as Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak in 1938.

During World War II (WWII), he was interned at Batu Lintang Camp by the Japanese. After the war ended, a series of internment stories were published at The Sarawak Gazette monthly. One of the stories was of Hollis’ experience being interrogated by the Japanese.

A quirky story of Bishop Francis Hollis being interrogated during WWII — Bishop Francis Hollis of Sarawak addressing the congregation at a thanksgiving day service held in Batu Lintang Camp. Civilians are seated in the foreground most of whom had been internees under the Japanese (Taken by Photographer Lieutenant A. W. Horner on Sept 12, 1945). Copyright -Public Domain.

Bishop Francis Hollis being called out for questioning during his internment at Batu Lintang Camp published in The Sarawak Gazette:

His Lordship the Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak is called out for questioning.

“You, you’re a priest?” says the Japanese officer by way of beginning the interview.

“Well, no, no, not exactly,” replies His Lordship with his customary diffidence, “you see I’m the bishop,”

“Oh! (pause) Roman Catholic bishop?”

“No, I’m not a Roman Catholic bishop?”

“Roman Catholic priest, then?”

“No, you see I am not a Roman Catholic.”

This is a little too much for the military mind.

“You are bishop, but you are not priest and not Roman Catholic. Then what are you?”

“Well, you see, the fact is, that is to say that the fact is, that I am a bishop of the Church of England.”

“Church of England? Church of England? Roman Catholic Church of England.”

“No, no, just Church of England. The Church of England is not Roman Catholic.”

Light dawns. With a smile of relief at his success in at last unraveling so untangled a mystery the officer heaves in his breath and blows it out again.

“Ah-ah-ah! Now I understood. Henry Eight!”

5 types of Christmas cake from around the world to make at home

Published on December 1, 2022

Lifestyle

The Christmas season is incomplete without indulging in good food and great companions.

And what better way to end every Christmas feast than having a slice of Christmas cake.

If you are looking for inspiration on what to have for dessert this Christmas season, here are five types of Christmas cake around the world:

1.Fruitcake (United Kingdom and former British colonies)

5 types of Christmas cake from around the world to make at home — Fruitcake. Image by Pixabay.com

As a former British colony, Malaysians often associate Christmas cake with fruitcake.

The traditional Christmas cake in the UK is a round fruitcake covered in marzipan and then in white royal icing or fondant.

It is typically decorated with snow scenes and holly leaves.

The cake is made with currants, sultanas and raisin which have been soaked in alcohol such as brandy, rum and whiskey.

Thanks to the alcohol content, a fruitcake can be edible for a very long time.

For example in 2017, a 106-year-old fruitcake was discovered from explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition.

The Terra Nova Expedition or the British Antarctic Expedition was an expedition to Antarctica that took place between 1910 and 1913.

The fruitcake was described to be in “excellent condition” and the smell was “almost” edible.

Maybe it is time to store the fruitcake you made this for your future great-grandchildren?

Read on how to make it here, here and here.

2.Stollen (Germany)

This Christmas cake is not exactly a cake but a cake-like fruit bread with yeast, water, citrus zest and flour.

There are also other ingredients such as orange peel, raisins, almonds, cinnamon and cardamon in it.

It is coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar.

Augustus the Strong (1670-1733) who was Elector of Saxony and King of Poland once ordered bakers to make a giant 1.7 tonne of stollen.

They had to custom build oversized oven and knife in order to make it happen.

Read on how to make it here, here and here.

3.Panettone (Italy)

While the Germans have their stollen, the Italians have their panettone.

Originally from Milan, it is a type of sweet bread that usually enjoyed for Christmas and New Year.

The typical shape is a cupola but some panettone also comes in octagon or frustum shape.

Unfortunately, panettone is not for those impatient bakers to make.

This is because it requires a long process that involves curing the dough.

However if you can bake sourdough at home, baking this Christmas cake should not be a problem for you.

Read on how to make it here, here and here.

4.Sponge Cake (Japan)

For beginner and intermediate bakers out there, how about making Japanese Christmas cake?

It is a simple sponge cake, frosted with whipped cream and often with strawberries.

On top of it, there is Christmas-like decoration.

Basically, it is a strawberry cake with Christmas deco.

Here is an interesting fun fact about Christmas cake in Japan.

The term ‘Christmas Cake’ is used as a metaphor term for a woman who is unmarried after the age of 25.

It is a reference to Christmas cake which are still unsold after the 25th.

Read on how to make it here, here and here.

5.Yule Log (France, Belgium, Switzerland and some former French colonies)

Also known as buche de Noel, this traditional Christmas cake is originally often served in France, Belgium, and Switzerland.

It is commonly made from a yellow sponge cake and chocolate buttercream to resemble a miniature Yule log.

The Yule log or Christmas block is a specially selected log burnt on a hearth as a winter tradition in Europe.

This particular custom is believed to derive from Germanic paganism where a portion of the log is burnt every evening until the Twelfth Night (January 6).

According to traditions, one can discern their fortunes for the new year according to how long the yule log is burnt and how many sparks it could produce.

As for the yule log cake, a fork is dragged across the icing to make it look like tree bark and powdered sugar sprinkled on top to resemble snow.

Read on how to make it here, here and here.

KajoPicks: 5 webtoons that are in dying need of K-drama adaptations

Published on November 24, 2022

Entertainment

Every year, we have seen many webtoons that have been adapted into K-dramas.

And we have also watched many Korean dramas that we did not know actually were adapted from webtoons.

For those who read the webtoons first, we can’t help but make comparisons between the artwork and the real-life adaptation.

The first and most important question we always ask is: “Did they cast the right actor and actress for the webtoon characters?”

While we appreciate that K-dramas these days are constantly bringing our favourite webtoons to life, there are still some really good ones out there that are in dying need of TV adaptations:

So here five webtoons that need to be adapted into K-dramas and KajoMag’s dream cast for every series:

1.The Wolf & Red Riding Hood

The Wolf & Red Riding Hood is a comedy webtoon original created by Xuann.

It follows high school student Anna who wakes up one day to find that she is super hairy and has an unnatural appetite for meat.

Later, Anna realises that she is slowly turning into a werewolf.

Since Anna is a high school student, we really want a young actress to play this role.

One actress that pops up in our mind is Kim Hyun-soo who is known for her role Bae Ro-na from the Penthouse: War in Life.

We would love to see her taking up a comedic role.

While So Ju-yeon’s appearance as Han So-mang in Seasons of Blossom (2022) kinda reminds us of the webtoon character with the short haircut, she is a bit too old to play Anna at the age of 28.

But then again if 32-year-old Kim Tae-ri pulled off playing a high school student in Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022), maybe So Ju-yeon could also do the same.

KajoPicks: 5 webtoons that are in dying need of K-drama adaptations — What do you think? Anna (left) and So Ju-yeon

Check out the webtoon here

2.Devil Number 4

Since there are many romantic love stories between human and non-human beings such as in Goblin (2016), Tale of the Nine Tailed (2020), K-drama fans would definitely love this adaptation.

Devil Number 4 follows the story of Hanna Yoon. She is a poor college student who struggles to get by.

One day, she is approached by Number 4, a devil who promises to give her a wish in exchange for a soul.

Hanna, on the other hand, is not ready to part with her soul. Number 4, being a high-ranked official in Satan’s corporate ladder, is not willing to give up.

He goes as far as offering Hanna a job at his coffee shop in order to convince her to give up her soul.

Readers who have read Devil Number 4 must have cried and laughed through the series and we expect to do the same if there is a drama adaptation.

When the webtoon first came out in 2018, it had already garnered a lot of attention. Fans also came up with their imaginary cast for a fantasy drama adaptation.

For Number 4, they wanted Joo Ji-hoon who is known for his work in Princess Hours (2006), Along with the Gods and Kingdom.

As for the role of Hanna Yoon, the actress chosen by the fans is Kim So-hyun. The former child actress has a steady acting career and has starred in many hit series such as Who Are You: School (2015), Hey Ghost, Let’s Fight (2016), Radio Romance (2018) and Tale of Nokdu (2019).

As much as we love Joo, the 17 year age gap between him and Kim would just be too much for us.

To fit our vision of the perfect Number 4, we have Yoon Si-Yoon in mind.

He is versatile in his acting and we are sure he can pull off a supernatural character like the devil.

Check out the first episode of Devil Number 4 on Webtoon here.

3.My Dear Cold-Blooded King

This webtoon is one of the best action, romantic and historical publications on the app.

It follows the story of Kihara Mei who has a strong-willed personality.

She is born a simple farm girl who grew up working as a merchant while her family sold fruit for survival.

One thing leads to another and Mei finds herself working in the Blood King’s palace.

Mei has two love interests Asukai Katsu and Ryusaki Hayate. Both carry secrets and it is interesting to know how their relationships with our female lead character grow as she slowly learns about the secrets that the Blood King’s palace hides.

For the role Kihara Mei, we would love to see a Korean actress who is trained in martial arts.

On the top of our heads are of course are Ha Ji-won and Park Shin-hye. Ha for instance, has learned kendo while Park is known for her boxing skill.

Another one actress who might be perfect as Mei is Han So-hee. She has proven that she is talented in action roles through My Name (2021).

Meanwhile, Ryusaki Hayate is a handsome, young man with long black hair.

He has a flirtatious and cheeky personality which also works as a mask to hide his true motive sometimes.

We imagine Lee Joon-gi and Ji Chang-wook to be the perfect Ryusaki.

Apart for the reason that they are undeniably talented for the role, both actors have the look too.

We have seen Lee rocking Ryusaki-type of hairstyle in Iljimae (2008) and Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016).

Ji’s portrayal of Baek Dong-soo in the historical action drama Warrior Baek Dong-soo (2011) also reminds of Ryusaki.

Asukai Katsu on the other hand has a long straight silver-white hair and green eyes. His appearance reminds us of Choi Siwon and Jung Ill-woo.

Both actors have that historical royalty vibe and both have taken up action roles before.

Check out the webcomic here.

4.Age Matters

Created by Enjelicious for Webtoon, the series ran on the app from Aug 20, 2018 till Sept 7, 2021.

It follows the story of 29-year-old Rose Choi as she tries to pick up her life after being dumped by her ex-boyfriend.

While looking for a job, she takes over her best friend’s job to cook and deliver meals to a mysterious boss.

As it turns out, the mysterious boss is a young, handsome CEO named Daniel Yoon.

Rose is subsequently hired to be Daniel’s personal assistant despite the fact they do not get along in the first place.

The story explores the themes that we are familiar with in K-dramas such as ‘noona’ romance, office romantic relationship and family conflict.

There are many young Korean actors that would fit perfectly to the role of Daniel Yoon but here at KajoMag, we want to see Kim Min-kyu as our Daniel.

After playing the chief secretary Cha Sung-hoon in Business Proposal (2022), we would love to see a promotion to his fictional career and finally become a CEO in a drama.

As for the mature, strong-willed character of Rose, Choi Soo-young can be our female leading role.

We have seen Choi’s constant growth in her career from being a K-pop idol in Girls’ Generation to taking up more prominent roles in her acting.

For that, we would love to see what she could bring as Rose Choi.

Check out the webtoon here

5.Scorching Romance

Here is another high school webtoon that is worthy of a K-drama adaptation.

It follows the story of high-schooler Ember who is constantly hot, as in having a high body temperature.

Ember also has a hot temper that comes along with her hot bodily temperature.

What happens when she encounters a fellow schoolmate who is the opposite of her?

Instead of feeling hot all the time, Aspen is constantly shivering with cold.

Overall, the webtoon is fun to read especially watching the development of relationship between the two polar opposite people, Ember and Aspen.

For our imaginary cast, we want fresh blood for the drama adaptation of Scorching Romance.

Well, these actors are not exactly fresh but they still need more work to gain more recognition that they deserve.

So far we have seen Kim Min-ki in supporting roles such as True Beauty (2020) and Under The Queen’s Umbrella (2022).

It is about time to have his first leading role, so how about the role of Aspen?

As for the feisty role of Ember, Yoon Seo-A left deep impression in her role as Seo Ji-wan in Nevertheless (2021). Thus, we would love to see her exploring different types of roles.

Check out the webcomic here.

What do you think of our imaginary cast for these imaginary drama adaptations of webtoons?

Let us know in the comment box which webtoons you would like to see to come to life?

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