guess I should've checked first

What a goddamn waste. 

I got halfway through the upload process for the Kindle-ebook version of the 2026 edition of my homeschooling book, only to discover, when I used the Kindle site's preview function, that Kindle won't work with Korean. I should've checked. I keep assuming total globalization, interchangeability, and intertranslatability of anything and everything between and among cultures, which is obviously not the case. For what it's worth, on Kindle Create, the desktop app where I had generated the document to upload to my Amazon Bookshelf, the Korean does appear, but it's a terrible, ugly font. Behold what you could've seen on your phone:

Ugh. And that should've been a warning sign to me, frankly. Not that it matters: American Kindle can't publish ebooks in hangeul. So all that's left to me is to create a new dead-tree book and have some copies printed out by the print shop close to SNU. That'll be my mission for Thursday, and on Friday, I'll see about motorvating out to where that publishing house is near Andong. Here's hoping they accept walk-ins. I should probably call first and find out if the building where I saw their ad is in fact the building where the publishing house is headquartered. What a waste of time that would be, eh, to find out I'd gone to the wrong place.

UPDATE: I found that publishing house's website, and while their portfolio of books gives me some hope that they might deal with someone like me (homeschooling book, travel book, etc.), when I clicked on the website's 오시는길 button, I saw the company is headquartered in Daegu. Now, while I'd love to have an excuse to go back to my favorite Chinese restaurant in that city, I'm getting to a point where I need to keep my traveling close to where I live. I might still try emailing the company to find out more, though.