Survive & Thrive in Korea
Well, the other shoe has finally dropped after the big fallout of the sex offender scandal. If you haven’t heard it turns out that early this month Interpol arrested Canadian Christopher Paul Neal on sex abuse charges. Mr. Neal had been abusing kids in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. His base of operations to conduct these […]
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Where The Hell Am I?: OECD: Korea Classified As A “Danger Country” For Women Remember Whoppi in Ghost? Well that line is what popped into my head when I recently read a post touching upon the well being of women in Korea by Expat Jane on her blog Where The Hell Am I?(See Above Link) […]
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K-pop is one subject I have yet to touch upon because, frankly, I find it to be daunting. Before coming to Korea I didn’t even know K-pop existed and never gave the Korean music scene a single thought. Whereas subtitles make Korean cinema accessible there is no equivalent for songs, unless I’m just out of […]
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Insadong is an art and shopping district in Seoul. On a weekend it’s overrun with people looking for everything from performing arts masks, to paintings to traditional clothing. Galleries also abound in Insadong. You can spend an entire afternoon whittling away the hours searching for that special something to put on your wall or shelf. […]
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My friends and I ventured to the Seoul Cartoon Museum and Animation Center a few weeks ago. You can reach the Animation Center by taking Line 4 to Myeong-dong station and leave by exit 1. From there follow the signs up the curving hill and you will see the building shortly. We came a week […]
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We stopped for lunch at the Village of Tongilchon. This village serves as a small community for the soldiers and their families to live. It’s also a pit stop on the DMZ tour. We were served a traditional Korean meal that not proved to be quite good. Any meal with kimchi is okay by me. […]
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