Survive & Thrive in Korea
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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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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Where there is competion there will always be cheaters. Whethere it’s a simple game of checkers or a high stakes poker game, there will be some who want to find that short cut in order to come out on top. The same holds true in the classroom and in the heated pressure cooker arena of […]
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On Sunday, November 11th, 2007 20,000 farm workers, college students, and blue collar workers staged a rally at City Hall in Seoul. The rally was held in protest of the US-Korea free trade agreement as well as the recent legislation that the groups claim discriminates against non-regular workers. The rally lasted from early afternoon well […]
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Beyonce has just wrapped up two nights in Seoul playing at the Seoul Olympic Gymnastic Stadium. She played to packed houses of over ten thousand each night. Ticket prices hovered around 150,000 Won otherwise I would’ve probably gone and experienced the “Beyonce Experience” first hand. I should’ve bitten the bullet and just sprung for the […]
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