Survive & Thrive in Korea
The 사무실 Transcripts from a “frustrating-when-it’s-happening”, but “funny-in-retrospect” foreigner-infused Korean workplace. Gaston : Rolanda…how do you call it in English? Holds up one of those rolly white out tape things. Rolanda : Oh that? It’s called “white out”. Gaston : Oh really? I thought that was when you drink too much and can’t remember. Rolanda : […]
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Okay, my friends from back home love to lord over the fact that the Pop acts there are just all that and a bag of chips. They had never even heard of K-pop before I started filling them in on the music scene here. They can’t help but to compare Pop and K-pop artists. One […]
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Okay, we all know or come to know that living in Korea will mean facing shall we say unpleasantness, from time to time. There’s is a long list of greivances that the foreign community in Korea has including but not limited to: Yellow Journalism Objectification Inequality Unreasonable suspicion Mistreatment Now some people ignore it, others […]
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Jeju just isn’t a paradise for work weary Seoulites to flee to for a few days of rest and relaxation. Nope, it’s also, and has been for a very long time, an island refuge for artists. Once you’ve seen the craggy bluffs, deep blue seas, and forested volcanic craters its not hard to figure out […]
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The next assault in the coffee wars has been launched! This time it’s DeChocolate firing off a nuclear worthy attack at the likes of Tom N Toms, Starbucks, and Coffee Bean. Last year around this time I’d never even seen a single one. Now you can’t miss them. You’ve probably seen a DeChocolate yourself. They’re […]
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Heralding the coming Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art a special exhibition was held last fall. The site of the exhibition was the former headquarters of Defense Security Command. It was formerly a grim and shunned place known for torture during Korea’s darker times. Now, however, it has been reborn as a space to showcase art […]
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