Survive & Thrive in Korea
This past Saturday my friends and I headed a few blocks away to Gangnam station and the hip hop club Harlem. There’s two that I know of in the city, the other being in Hongdae. We decided that if we were going to hit up Harlem that we’d do our very best to get into […]
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I’m back again with apologies pouring from my lips. My new place still isn’t hooked up with internet service and I’ve been trying to get a hold of an ISP to connect me so the posts have been coming a bit slow. The draught ends today with a review of the Mexican restaurant Casa […]
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The other night I decided to check out Oi, the lastest hot spot in Hongdae. My co-worker, Amanda, had gone there a week before and loved it. Her thumbs up came on the heels of a raving review of Oi in the December issue of Groove magazine. With two glowing recommendations how could I not […]
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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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Once in a Blue Moon is a jazz club in the swanky area of Apgujong. Blue Moon is smack in the middle of boutiques, fancy restaurants, chill out clubs, and high dollar cafes that would make your wallet jump out of your pocket and run away screaming. My friends and I went to Club Evans […]
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Last Saturday night a couple friends and I made the journey to Club Evans in Hongdae to hear the jazz fusion group Crystal Rain. They’re promoting their first CD that has been recently released. I have no idea what their names are because it’s all in Korean, but this is what the Babel Fish online […]
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