Getting around Korea: understanding bus / train tickets
The good news about Korean bus and train tickets is that they’re fairly intuitive and easy to figure out once you’ve seen a few of them and can read Korean. The bad news: there are many different kinds of tickets, each just a bit different. If you can figure out the...
Baz Luhrmann says: Eat Kimchi
Author’s note: full copyright credit for original text goes to Mary Schmich, an author for the Chicago Tribune in 1997. Find the original article here. Baz Luhrmann made it into a popular song in 1998. For the entire history of the song / text, Wikipedia has you...
Five hours on a Mugunghwa – and four dirty secrets to train traveling in South Korea
This is what I get for not planning ahead. Buddha’s Birthday is one of the few three-day weekends Korea gets to celebrate, and it seems everyone wants to celebrate it by traveling out of town. I can’t blame them – certainly I wasn’t the first...
Life in Korea: Doing a visa run, Osaka style
Note: ‘Life in Korea’ posts are geared towards the newer expats amongst us. If you have a more experienced perspective, feel free to comment below. Currency exchange note: As of the published date of this post, 1 Japanese yen was worth about 13 Korean won...Destination: Dragon Hill (Jimjilbang) – or 10 steps to enjoying a jimjilbang in South Korea
Define jimjilbang: A Korean day spa / sauna / public bathhouse, often open 24 hours a day with separate places to sleep, relax, soak in hot water, sit in a sauna, and so on. Visiting a jimjilbang has become one of my favorite ways to relax, especially after having...
8 things you need to know about South Korea
If you’re coming to Korea as a tourist, you’ll be able to use a lot of what you’ve read from the blog, and will definitely be relevant in your journey. I don’t usually write from the tourist perspective since I live here, but a future Seoul...
Eating Korean food if you can’t speak much Korean
OK, so after almost five months since arrived, I’m slightly ashamed to say I haven’t learned much Korean – at least, not much more than the survival Korean I picked up in my first month or so here. In my defense, however, life is busier than ever,...
What’s the food like?
I’ve been continually impressed with both the quality and quantity of food available here in Seoul. For starters, it helps that there’s a vast number of restaurants to choose from. Food is almost always much fresher, with vegetables and fruits grown by...
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