Survive & Thrive in Korea
The League Of Legends Sold Out World Championships have arrived. Unless you’re a gamer chances are you probably haven’t heard of E-Sports. Hey, I see that smirk curling your lips. Don’t laugh. E-Sports are big business, drawing thousands of spectators and dishing out millions in prize money. Earlier this year at the International World Championships of DOTA […]
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Kayaking in Seoul: It’s No Borneo, But It’ll Do The Han River has always prevailed to be the least idealistic place to frolic and swim due to its city-polluted state; nor did the 2006 parody/thriller film, “The Host,” aid to transform its rep, after seeing the poorly CGI-ed monster having a ball in its alleged […]
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If you’re anything like me then sometimes all of the frustrations, weariness, and obstacles that come from living abroad eventually build up into numbness that has to be relieved. Or, maybe you’ve had a soreness or strain from the gym? Perhaps, it’s an ache from an old injury? Well, Thailand may be far away but […]
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Hi there! My name is Natalia, I’m co-founder of Jiva Cubes. We make coffee cubes using Single Estate Colombian coffee and raw sugar (think of a sugar cube combined with coffee). We just launched a Kickstarter campaign to release a non-sweet coffee cube. We are a completely crowd funded company that focuses on making delicious […]
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Seoul is a city teeming with millions of people. So many millions that I believed the gay population would be bursting at the seams making queer seoul apropro. Years ago, as a freshly minted expat, I pictured a gay Asian mecca analogous to San Francisco. How naïve. Still, undaunted, I waded through the deceiving sea […]
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KICK ASS KOREA reason 13 Look, moving to a new place, let alone a new country, means facing a daunting set of hurdles. Saying good-bye to family, friends, and social networks tied intimately into your day to day life probably paralyzes most people. When leaving your home country those losses can seem even larger after […]
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