Survive & Thrive in Korea
Love the blog, great nom de plume. I am wondering what it is like being an “older” ESL teacher there, most tend to be in their 20s. I lived in Seoul a long while back and want to return to teach ESL and diving. Does Yongsan still have a big US military presence there? How […]
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Why invest your money in things you can find for free? The answer is you don’t!
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Coming to Korea to teach English can be a daunting prospect. First and foremost you have to face the fact that you’ll be leaving behind all your friends and family. Sure, there’s always skype, email, facebook, myspace and a host of other social media and technologies that let people stay in touch, but nothing comes […]
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You must be living under a rock if you haven’t heard of the latest movie craze sweeping the world: The Twilight Saga. Based on the novels from Stephanie Meyer the latest film in the trilogy, New Moon, has just hit screens in the United States. The opening day take of the movie earned an astonishing […]
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I’m late to this party, but I may as well join in anyway. So, in a recent episode of Chat with Beauties, one of the aforementioned beauties, a Korean college student, Yi Do-Kyung of Hongik University. appearing as a guest, said that “All men under 180cm (5’9″) are losers.” Her comment sparked a mini internet […]
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As an American in Seoul, celebrating holidays here is like entering the twilight zone. Quirky holidays that you’ve never heard of before, strange twists on familiar holidays, and the complete absence of some holidays makes for a pretty disconcerting time. Take for instance, Pepero Day, a holiday celebrated on November 11 in honor of a […]
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