Screw War Let's TeachAll the foreign brands were there — Burton, Anon, Oakley, Technine, Ride, Spy, Vokl — which seemed surprising for a country so keen on it’s own fashion identity. You would have thought at least one Korean start-up company making boards or jackets would have dawned itself. The closest thing I saw was a man dressed […]
“Please put the cell phone away Sally”. Two minutes later… “Sally, put away the cell phone now please”. Five more minutes… “Sally, put the cell phone away or I’ll throw it out the window”! She put it away. I turned back around from writing some non-sense about to-infinitives on the whiteboard, and guess what I […]
Three months now of studying Korean, and according to my Korean teacher, I am a master of incomplete sentence structure. It’s hard. Verbs are especially difficult to get a hold of because the form is changed to suite necessary and nonsensical formalities of everyday Korean conversation. For instance, moak da (목다) means eat, but to […]
There have been two Korea’s since the end of World War II; The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North) and the Republic of Korea (South). This past weekend on our trip to Seoul, we toured a small part of the Demilitarized “buffer” zone (DMZ) between the two countries. It was Friday he 13th, and just […]
Pepero, yet another product from the all encompassing Korean conglomerati known as Lotte, apparently has it’s own day. November 11th, Armistice Day in other parts of the world, is Pepero Day in South Korea — the tastiest and most ridiculous holiday of them all. South Koreans buy and give away hoards of the chocolate dipped […]
Yeah they’ve got McDonald’s, but a feast at Lotteria is where it’s at. It’s pretty much the same, but they’ve got shit like the squid burger, shrimp burger, and Hanwoo half steak half fried fish sub.
Mt. Mudeung, one of the biggest mountains in the Jeolla province, is just under 1200 meters to the tallest peak, Cheonwang-bong (King of Heaven Peak). The two smaller peaks are Jiwang-bong (King of Earth Peak) and Inwang-bong (King of Men Peak). Progress has been deemed more important than timeless natural scenery, and you will find […]
No idea of the name, it was located in a basement near Chosun University, and filled with college students. The walls, suffering from years of Sharpie vandalism, looked more like a 3rd floor bathroom stall than a reputable establishment. “Call xxx-xxxx-xxxx for happy time”. I’ve always said, you can’t go wrong with happy time… Above […]
Coming up from the subway on our way to Yangdong Market, we found our selves in the middle of a sidewalk shopping center; everything from sun visors to rack of cow. Being that it’s still a bit shocking to see a hanging meat carcass next to a man selling q-tips, I stopped to take a […]
When it smells like low tide, you have arrived. Yangdong is a traditional Korean marketplace, located in a large warehouse that is built atop the Gwangjucheon Stream. There you will find mostly butchers, fish mongers, seaweed dealers, tailors and farmers selling their latest crop. From the Grand Hotel downtown, walk North West along the stream […]