Survive & Thrive in Korea
You know I don’t think I’ve posted about my new apartment in Gangnam. I love the new place. It’s got tons more space than the hovel I was living in. The bedroom is spacious with three big windows that let the light pour in! The kitchen is efficient and wide and I have a big […]
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I love seafood, yet in Seoul I never seem to eat it as much as I’d like. So, you can imagine, when I hit Busan, the seaside city, the first thing I wanted to do was get some hearty seafood. The place to go in Busan to get the chicken of the sea is Jagalchi […]
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A couple weekends back I went out to Yeouido Park to check out the Cherry Blossom festival
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Banking in South Korea. I can be both blissfully easy and a pain in the ass. Easy because ATMs are literally on every single corner. You can’t turn around without bumping into a bank with an all access atm. Though if its not your specific bank you will be charged a small fee, it still […]
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Patrons beware. It usually takes a lot to get a negative review out of me. I’m an optimistic happy go lucky person who can find the bright spot in just about any gloomy situation. And yet the restaurant HBC in haebangchon did their very best to beat the cheeriness out of me and turn me […]
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Coffee is the modern day drink of the gods enjoyed by mere mortals all over the globe. Coffee definitely is the drink du jour for vast army of Seoullites who partake of the steamy java goodness morning, afternoon, and night. Seoul seems to have as many coffee places as people so I thought it would […]
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