Cheonan, Korea Rep. Travel Blogs

Hanbok at school
Oct 29, 2005 (2 photos)

Every month at the Kindergarten they hold a birthday party. This makes sure that everyone who has had a birthday that month gets to celebrate it and be the belle (or beau) of the ball. Korean ages are a little different to how we figure it in the West. ...

Saying goodbye to an old friend......
Oct 26, 2005

Yesterday we said a teary goodbye to an old, dear member of staff. After enduring months of it teetering on the edge of total breakdown, Young-Hun finally decided to replace the office photocopier with a newer, sleeker model. We couldn't let the ...

Day One
Sep 1, 2005 (4 photos)

... have to try to learn Korean though. I am located in Yongi-kun (county) in Chungcheongnam-do province of the Republic of Korea. Presently I have no permanent address, I am staying with the English-speaking Korean teacher, Alice, until I am setup with a ...

Sangnok Resort: Compound
Sep 6, 2005

... was beautiful. A little bit of a history lesson was dicatated on the way and apparently during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910-1945) in 1919 a young lady started a revolution against the Japanese Overlords. She was tortured and killed as a result ...

Mudfest and Summer Camps
Jul 22, 2006 (15 photos)

... As it happened this was the first week of summer camps, destination: Soon Cheon Hyang University, the Medical Building. Its located near Cheonan about an hour south of Seoul. I was assigned Class Yellow, or B class. Unfortunately as I discovered on the ...

Attempt to Relax
Dec 12, 2005

... EFL Teaching-induced Self-destructive Weekend syndrome. Pretty good, eh? I should name diseases for a living. I arrived back in Cheonan. I briefly thought maybe a mental institution might be nearby that I could check into. Alas, no. I proceeded on ...

My kids in Cheonan!
Jul 20, 2006 (6 photos)

Ok, so these were my little monsters. At first they were so nice and then at a drop of the hat they were kicking each other's asses. One kid broke a computer and I caught a few of them smuggling coffee.

In South Korea FINALLY!
Mar 26, 2009

... 10:20am Tuesday March 24.  I arrived in the new Incheon -Seoul Airport Wed 3/25/09.  I then had to ride 2 hours to Cheonan, which wasn't bad at all...just tiring.  When I arrived and met the schoo director Mr. Chang Su Mo he took me to this ...

May
Jun 15, 2008

... , as the long-legged herons came stabbing over the fields, elegant coils of white in the world of green.   This was the Korea I had remembered, it had come back, and I realised that my year was ending already. The whole long winter, the brief ...

waking up angry
Dec 5, 2007 (1 photos)

... - and with all thanks due to Nan and none to the rest of my school - a new apartment was found for me, right in downtown Cheonan. And suddenly, just like that, I had a date set for my move. Whether I liked the new apartment or not.   Moving day was ...

New Junk, Old Junk
Aug 10, 2008

... ;      All this bric-a-brac seemed out of place in this gallery. Arario Gallery opened in Cheonan in 2002, a sleek and contemporary space surrounded by the hippest department stores in downtown Cheonan (which are also Arario-owned ...

life under the shadow
Oct 25, 2007

... served as kumara fries in NZ or candied yams in the US, I knew it only in its delicious manifestation.   But in Korea gogoma is served plain, that is, uncandied, unfried, unmayonnaised and uncheesed. It is boiled, peeled, and stuffed into one's gob ...

the rock star and the circus animal
Sep 25, 2007 (3 photos)

The Korea i had imagined prior to arrival was one enormous, endless city, sprawling out to cover the tiny peninsular, all skyscrapers and clean sharp edges, perfect efficiency and neon lights. It was a country of business people and high- ...

Tomato Season
Aug 5, 2008

... complete. The wet swathes that hung around the hills every morning were the same swathes I had seen when I first arrived in Cheonan. The rain when it came moved in silently, drenching everything, and disappeared fast but never for long. It was all so ...

Up at 6:15 to make my way to Incheon Airport
Dec 26, 2008

I woke up insanely early but bumped for a prospective change of surroundings.  My bus made its way to Incheon Airport much faster than on any other occasion.  The trip only took 90 minutes, compared to the usual two-and-a-half hours.  ...

transitions
Apr 22, 2008

... twigs of the plants were beginning to bud with green, white and pink.   Cherry blossom festivals began around Korea, sometimes before the flowers they were honouring. When the blossoms did arrive they arrived en masse, great shimmering clouds of ...