Survive & Thrive in Korea
This past Sunday I ventured to the area around Ewha Women’s University which is known as Edae. The University was founded in 1886 by American Missionary Mary Scranton. Edae can be reached by takeing the green line to Ewha Women’s University Station. It’s part of the trinity of trendy which also includes Hongdae and Shinchon. […]
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Konglish 101 An experience in class after teaching for a few days… Class: Teacher! John cunning! Me: I guess. He does seem pretty slick that, John. Class: No, teacher! Cunning! Me: Okay, but he’s not master spy or anything. Then I got blank looks and more screams of Cunning! So that was introduction to the […]
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Caribou Coffee is another chain of coffee houses in an already crowded market. So what, pray tell, sets Caribou Coffee apart from the rest of the competition? Well, for starters, Caribou is committed to bringing 50% of its coffee bean suppliers into the rainforest alliance by next year. They also buy fair trade and organic […]
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Over the weekend a friend and I ventured into Omuto Tomato for dinner. This one is located right by Sinchon Station on the green line near Ewha Women’s University. Omuto Tomato is a trendly looking quick casual restaurant specializing in fusion omurice. What’s omurice you may ask? Well it’s a Japanese dish that takes an […]
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Well, Movember ended on Friday, the 30th and here is the shot of my mustache before the razor on Saturday morning. I think I did pretty well for the month. On Friday Night there were prizes for the best, dirtiest, and girliest Mo. Ryan took the girliest prize and received his Disney Heroine Pink drinking […]
Continue ReadingOne of the latest uproars in the Korean blogging scene is the incident that happened a week and a half ago to Michael Hurt blogger of Metropolitican. Instead of rehashing the story, you can read all about it yourself by clicking the above link. After I read his account of what happened I sat stunned […]
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