After ten months of austere living, I’ve succumbed and gone materialistic.

I bought a TV. A nice big one. I had a smallish TV that the landlord provided, but I my old-ass eyes were just tired of squinting. When MyeongHee and I watch TV, someone has to read the subtitles. Neither of us is well versed enough in the other’s native tongue to understand the rapid-fire speaking. Subtitles are a pain in the size we watched.

And, frankly, I was spoiled. I had a nice 53″ TV at home and now Teri has that comfortably in her apartment awaiting my return. I liked having a screen large enough to see from across the room and I especially liked the Hi-Def channels. Now I have a 42″ HDTV (funny, in a land where the metric system prevails, TVs, even those that never get exported to America, are sold in “inches”). One of the discount chains had a big sale this weekend and MyeongHee and I splurged.

10,000W to the reader who can identify the movie playing on screen.

That’s my 19″ (Yup, monitors are sold in inches in Korea, too)  LCD computer screen next to the TV.

The bad news for this TV?  All the menus and the manual are in Korean. 🙁