Survive & Thrive in Korea
That’s right, Bjork, the maven of musical madness, will be arriving in Seoul on February 16, 2008 as a part of her World Wide Volta tour. She will be performing at the Olympic Hall of Olympic Park and this will be the icelandic songstress’ first ever appearance in Korea. I for one have already gotten […]
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After reading about Expat Jane’s strange taxi ride I was inspired to post about my own Twilight Zone experience in the back of a Seoul cab. I was in Itaewon, last week, in front of the Hamilton Hotel waiting to hail a taxi. One pulled over and I hopped in. After a “Omokgyo, juseyo” […]
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I know, I know this has nothing remotely to do with Korea, except that I am going gray and bald in Seoul. So, I suppose it just might have something to do with Korea. Maybe it’s something in the air or the food. That’s it! The kimchi is making me bald or maybe it was […]
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I’m not sure if you know or not but this is an election year in South Korea. On December 19th a new President will reign supreme. The would be Presidents have been campaigning and clamoring throughout the country (Seoul) badgering the populace with reasons why they should be the head honcho in charge. Now, since […]
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Konglish 101 An experience in class after teaching for a few days… Class: Teacher! John cunning! Me: I guess. He does seem pretty slick that, John. Class: No, teacher! Cunning! Me: Okay, but he’s not master spy or anything. Then I got blank looks and more screams of Cunning! So that was introduction to the […]
Continue ReadingOne of the latest uproars in the Korean blogging scene is the incident that happened a week and a half ago to Michael Hurt blogger of Metropolitican. Instead of rehashing the story, you can read all about it yourself by clicking the above link. After I read his account of what happened I sat stunned […]
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