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http://www.blogday.org

I have celebrated the blog day since 2006.

I don't know the origin of this day, but it is just for fun.
Here goes the rules on the official site :

1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2008
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org

It reminds me the mail fraud of fortune letter so I don't want to alarm to recommanded bloggers.

Actually, I posted the same thing of Korean version in my Korean blog, but I skip it here because the blogs are written in Korean.

OK. Here's the recommanded blogs :
http://my.opera.com/ricewood/blog/
He is Danish. Most of his posts are personal, but many of them are very interesting. So popular, there are many comments of other people.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Krugman's blog. He posts very enthusiastically. There are many interesting posts, so I refer to some of them.

http://www.socialfiction.org/
The title of blog is always changed when visited. The blogger seems to be interested in civilization and evolution. I can't imagine his/her characteristic.

http://dbqp.blogspot.com/
I've never heard about the visual poetry, until visiting this blog. The blogger seems to be interested in the art of text and letters.

http://my.opera.com/kiyoshi/blog/
She is japanese. There are many emotional posts. I can visit other cultures in here.

Dong Bang Sak (Korean : 동방삭, Chinese : 东方朔, B.C 154 - B.C 93) was one of a prime minister in Han Dynasty. He is very famous and an emblem as the long longevity. There are many variences of traditional myths about him, but the basic frame of Korean versions is like this :

1. Dong Bang Sak met an old man when he was 30 years old, and he served friendly very well so the old man was satisfied.
2. In fact, the old man was the Jeosungsaja (It is the messenger who takes a dead soul to the underworld. It can be seen in many traditional myths of Korea.)
3. Jeosungsaja tried to take Dong Bang Sak's soul to underworld (it means Dong Bang Sak's death), but he felt so satisfied and decided to postpone Dong Bang Sak's death in return.
4. Jeosungsaja had a list which recorded longevities of every person. He added one stroke on 三十(it means 30) to change into 三千(it means 3000) and changed 歲 (it means a year) to 甲 (it means 60 years). Hence Dong Bang Sak's life became 3000 x 60 (三千甲) = 180000 years.
5. After 180000 years later, Jeosungsaja tried to catch him (that is, to kill him), but Dong Bang Sak became too wise to be caught because he had lived too long!
6. Jeosungsaja made an idea. He washed charcoal on a side of stream. Dong Bang Sak asked "what are you doing?". Jeosungsaja answered "I'm washing charcoal until it became white." Dong Bang Sak laughed and said "I've never heard that it could be white for past 180000 years!"
7. At the same time, Jeosungsaja caught him to hell.