Well, it’s official. At least in Korea; MiHwa and I are married. We spent yesterday running around like headless chickens in an attempt to get all the documents certified. BTW, should you ever try to submit a document to the Korean registry, get it translated to Korean. I guess they don’t dig English… I also learned that no matter where you are, government workers are all the same. Indifferent drones.
We left downtown for MyeongDong where we did dome shopping and saw a movie before grabbing a bite for dinner.
Anyway, the wife is at work today, so I’m doing the Biff thing; did the dishes, cleaned up a little and did some laundry. MiHwa told me that they are testing the fire alarms today so I wouldn’t be surprised. As often happens, she left out the more important details.
I’m standing in my underwear doing the dishes when the doorbell rings. I looked at the front door LCD and no one is there, so I stick my head out the door only to see a worker walking down the hall. Now he did say something to me but oddly I didn’t understand him so I went back to my dishes. 2 minutes later, the door opens and some other guy walks right in, says something to me and begins to test the smoke detector. There I am in my underwear, doing the dishes with iTunes pounding away. Him: *Korean - roughly translated to ‘nice boxers’* Me: Hey
There was an uneasy silence as I kept doing the dishes and he kept testing the smoke detector. It was probably for the best… What do you say? Mental note, lock the damn door.
Well, I’m off to COEX.
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Congrats and much love!
Hi M&M,
I was sending happy thoughts to you guys today as I sat at my desk! Congrat’s on wedding #1. We had the whole paperwork official, red tape stuff in Turkey too, but they were really friendly and helpful and we were advised to have everything translated into Turkish which helped plenty!
Looking forward to the post after the 4th.
Hugs and wishes, Rachel
Congrats and let me be the first one to welcome you to the club.
Thanks ladies!
Congratulations!
Are you sure you’re in Korea? I’m pretty sure I saw you walking down Robson the other day wearing a really cool pair of Prada eyeglasses.
Congrats to you dude. And my condolences to MihWa.
[...] let me congratulate Mark and his foxy new wife MiHwa. They tied the knot yesterday in Korea. Since only a few of us have actually met MiHwa, I’m still thinking that Mark has made this whole story up as to finally shake off all those ‘gay’ rumours. All I can say is that if you’re not gay Mark, well you just cost me 5 bucks in the pool. Either way, get over to his site and leave him a comment. He lives for that kind of stuff… [...]
Well, that was quick, congrats to you both! Funny how countries insist on their native language for things like “official documents”…
Damn … times fly.
Congratulations to you both.
Where are the pictures ???
No not the ones of the smoke alarm testing scene
Best wishes.
All the best to you both! I look forward to meeting Mihwa this summer!
Enjoy your time over there, Marko. Talk soon.
Thanks everyone. Monday was the civil wedding so we could get the documents registered. The real wedding is this weekend. Pics to follow
Congratulations Mark,
Best of love and life to you and MiHwa.
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