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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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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The Seoul Museum of Art is located near City Hall in downtown Seoul. Currently the big news at the museum is the huge Van Gogh exhibition that opened this past Saturday. It’s the first Van Gogh exhibition for Seoul and it brought hundreds and hundreds of eager people out to the museum. The exhibition has […]
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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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Phoenixstorm’s Things I Should’ve Brought to Korea, but Didn’t If you have scoured the net for that perfect esl job in Korea, signed a contract, and have taken the steps to get your E-2 Visa, then you need to starting thinking about the next step in this whole teaching in Korea business: What to bring […]
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With the weather here in Seoul moving toward the colder temperatures the time has come for the annual ondol ritual. Don’t fret if you don’t know what ondol is because if you’re living in Korea then you most likely already have it set up in your apartment. Ondol is the name for the Korean […]
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