Hanam, Korea Rep. Travel Blogs

Gotta LOVE long weekends
Oct 5, 2009 (75 photos)

On Friday/Saturday Eric and I hiked to the top of Geumosan. We stayed the night on the second highest peaked and hiked to the top the next morning. Our hopes were to catch a beautiful sunrise over Gumi city. As you can see from the photos, we got just ...

Update
Sep 30, 2009

... me to. I could go, however, I would have to take 5 days of my vacation time for quarantine when I arrive back in S.Korea. I just don't think it's worth it. Yes, I'm a little bummed. Instead I will be spending my days with various teachers throughout the ...

The Beginning of a Long and Joyous Journey
Jun 10, 2009 (107 photos)

... guess this is true for most of Korea. I was told by one of my cooperating teacher's (sing sang nim, Korean) that 70% of Korea is mountainous. I think I came to the right country! I have had the luxury of climbing to the top of 4 mountains with another one ...

Jijiksa temple
Jul 6, 2007 (29 photos)

One more time, we wake up in the night at 3AM to enjoy the ceremony and the breakfast, but this time we did a different hike, we went in a temple: Eun Sun Am ( little clean temple). We had as guide the girl that we met the first day and who finally became ...

Rock Climbing in Mungyeong
Oct 23, 2005 (13 photos)

... seemed to be made up of mostly Canadians, I can honestly say I didnt realise there were so many of them in South Korea. Also, pretty much everyone in the group were English teachers living in Seoul. There was only myself and an Australian girl who worked ...

The lost months
Mar 1, 2009 (5 photos)

... make changes.  I spent a few months "enjoying" my time.  I spent a lot of time at Live Bench, singing noraebong with the Hanam-si band and drinking soju and cass.  It was hard, I missed home, but tried not to think about it.  I guess it ...

Mom and Connie arrive!
Jul 23, 2009 (3 photos)

... as soon as they got off the bus, and that bathroom has come in handy more than once since!  We caught the bus to Hanam-si and I got to introduce them to my city.  We had mandu for dinner, which is a steamed dumpling filled with meat or kimchi.& ...

Gumi
Nov 21, 2005

Gumi

My apartment at the Livingtel
Dec 2, 2008 (8 photos)

... .  I don't have an oven though. I am planning on borrowing one of the other teachers' because he has two now.   In Korea you must take your shoes off when you get into a home.  I have a small tiled section to take off shoes and a shoe ...

My first real weekend in Hanam
Dec 6, 2008 (6 photos)

... me where my stop was, even though I was totally ready for it. Sunday, I was all ready to go to E-Mart (walmart of Korea) when Russell and Francis stopped by my room to say they were going into Insa-dong, which is the traditonal area in Seoul where you can ...

Kickin in in Hanam...where?... In Hanam!
Sep 28, 2009 (7 photos)

... Knoff Hanam-si Bowling Tourney.  I guess we'll have to come back next year for the second one...maybe I shouldn't have specified Hanam-si in the title...hmmm... I had some great games and in the 4th game of the night I thought I may have finally ...

Just another weekend...
Dec 14, 2008 (6 photos)

Well, last week went by so incredibly quickly.  If they are all like that my time here will blow by.  But it was a pretty good week, even though I feel the presure of a couple of outstanding work assignments building up on me, but I will get ...

What exatly do I do?
Dec 17, 2008 (3 photos)

I've had a lot of people from home ask me about my job.  So here's what I do.  I teach children that are in the April program.  They are anywhere from 5 to about 12 years old.   We have four different levels of students.  ...

I've been counting down for so long...
Sep 24, 2009 (3 photos)

... first meal for J in Korea, not great, but not too bad, which is probably how he'd describe the food in Korea overall.  Ah, but nonetheless we got to sit down and eat at my neighborhood restaurant in Hanam-si Korea after 10 months apart. 

kota keeempat di korsel
Nov 14, 2007

kota di selatan korsel

Greetings from Gyeongju
Feb 15, 2007 (18 photos)

Wow this place is amazing. My cousing arranged a stay at Sa Rang Chae this amazing guesthouse in a little traditional neighborhood steps away from the sites. A nice quiet spot after being in the city. I spent the day walking around Bunkwasa ...

Rafting, bungee and saying goodbye to mom
Aug 1, 2009 (5 photos)

... ; I have the video of my jump, but I still wish I could have seen it in person.  We returned to Seoul and Hanam that evening and had a relaxing night.  The next morning, Connie caught a flight home and mom and I shopped in Insadong.  We had ...

The final move, I thought
Nov 28, 2008 (8 photos)

Wow!  I'm finally in my final destination, Hanam city.  It is a suburb of Seoul with a couple hundred thousand people in it.  Its interesting how quickly things can change when you don't feel like anything is changing.  When I was in ...

Getting in gear!
Jun 6, 2009 (10 photos)

... here at the end of June.  Her name's Kate and she's from Oregon.  We had a great 4th of July party in Hanam. I was so glad people joined in, even our English friends!  Everyone dressed as ridiculously "American" as they could and I brought ...

Hanam-si, home of the love hotel
Sep 29, 2009 (9 photos)

... of hung out and did some work I needed to do. Heather and I went for a morning run down by the river and I looked around Hanam-si while she taught her kiddies Engrish. For those of you that think I just misspelled English I refer you the the entry in my ...

Foreigners' christmas party
Dec 19, 2008 (5 photos)

Friday night finally came!!  So I went with Russell and Peter to a Christmas party  with a bunch of the foreign teachers at the Live Bench.  Its a nice little bar where they have live music.  There were about 20 of us there and it was ...

Living as the minority
Dec 23, 2008 (4 photos)

Its so interesting to live as the minority for a change.  Yes, in El Paso I was a minority of sorts, but that is of course still completely different.  Korean people have great pride in their race and culture, so it is a very homogenius place.& ...

A busy life - updates
Jan 25, 2009

... I've been spending a lot of weekend time at the Live Bench where we play music.  I am officially the technology person for the Hanam-si band. I also get to play the bongos sometimes. :-D  I have a great group of friends here.  Thank you to ...

Home and sick
Feb 12, 2009 (80 photos)

Well,  I'm home from Bali, but unfortunately I think i brought a little piece of paradise back with me.  I had to go to the doctor I was feeling so sick and it turns out that I had an intestinal infection.  The first week home I was feeling ...

Korean Food
Jul 2, 2006

... to "cut" it, debone it, using your chopsticks! Quite a challenge! By now we are pretty good with chopsticks, but in Korea they use metal chopsticks and they are more slippery. We are a walking group advertisment for Tide pens! But back to the fish ...

I'm going to do it!
Oct 17, 2009 (7 photos)

... , here's my own personal hell...the only channel worth watching (all others were Korean programs) was the sports channel.  Korea recently had their baseball championships (GO PHILLIES! btw) and have been playing and replaying the highlights from the ...