AFKN and I

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When I don’t cycle, I watch TV. Most of the stuff are boring, rude and covered with commercials.
But it just came to me, that there was time I loved American TV.
It was about 20 years ago. I used to watch the channel two, the AFKN-American Forces Network Korea. Korea had 3 Korean channels, but AFKN was my favorite.

AFKN used to air cartoons in the morning. I didn’t speak English but enjoyed watching it.

I don’t remember the names of the most characters, except for Bugs Bunny.
I remember a ostrich which made some funny noise and fooled a wolf.
There were a black duck, a piggy.
I think the broadcast was called Loony Tunes. Back then, America seemed to very far far away somewhere in the galaxy. It was like a fairly land.

Now I’m in the middle of Ameirca, literally. But I don’t know how close I got to America.

I don’t watch the Loony Tunes no more, but I watch Oprah Winfrey Show instead.

I still feel estranged.
America seems to be running away from me. This country is very strange to me. But I like Oprah. She’s "awesome".





[Izaka, almost got attacked by a small red car but escaped using an ancient Asian trick - photo by Choi J. W.]