Survive & Thrive in Korea
Last sunday my work mates and I made a company sponsored trip to Aschasan. Though it must be said that I was under the impression that Aschasan was more of a hill or even a slight incline than a full fledged moutain. Trust me, this bad boy was no hill and definitely all mountain. Somehow […]
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Ruslana! No, it’s not a James Bond vixen with bee stung lips, hypnotic eyes, and a body to kill for, but you’d be close. Ruslana is a Russian pop princess who I stumbled upon while surfing NPR. She’s in the news not because she’s flashing her punani like a certain American pop princess past her […]
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I just read on the Chosun that on a recent episode of the Oprah Winfrey show the talk show Maven dissed Korea, specifically, Korean women bigtime. The show in question concerned the lives and rising influence of women from around the world in their respective countries. Some of the countries on the table for discussion […]
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Over the weekend a friend and I went down to the Han river. Once there we kept on walking along the riverbank and under the highway overpass. I thought the area under the overpass was pretty great. The soil is all cracked and dried from the lack of rain, the weeds and foliage is dried […]
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A couple of weekends ago I went with a few friends to check out the National Museum of Korea. First of all the museum is located on line four at Ichon station practically smack dab around the corner from Itewon. Stepping on the Museum grounds, I couldn’t believe I was in one of the busiest […]
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Forget April Fool’s Day because in Korea it’s all about the fish. My students would point and say something like it’s snowing or your shoes untied and if I looked they shouted Fishing and started making the hand motions of reeling in a big one. Another student explained that April 1st became fools day because […]
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