Survive & Thrive in Korea
KICK ASS KOREA reason 25 This past weekend the world DJ festival hit Seoul for it’s fourth birthday! I’d missed last year’s bash so I was even more excited to attend this time around. The event brings DJ and musical acts from around the world to perform. For 2010 included Freemasons, Dirty Disco Youth, Fantastic […]
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This year the Cherry blossoms did a fake out. The inclement weather pushed the festivities and cherry blossom enjoyment back a few days. Some missed out because of the freakish cold spell delaying everything, but for those lucky enough to have the time to catch the blossoms in all their glory it proved to be […]
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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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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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We had a simple plan: Go out, Get smashed, Dance, and see some Drag Queens. None of that necessarily had to occur in that exact order. In fact my friend and I pretty much have three out of four of those down pat. It’s the Drag Queen part that often eludes us as, unfortunately, the […]
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Billed as a 5,000 year old art form and a stroll through Jeju history the Kimnyoung Maze Park proved to be a big hit with both Ian and myself. At first I was a bit hesitant to go. Despite it being the backdrop of the KTF LG mobile hand phone commercial starring Lee Young-Ae I […]
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