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- Seoul
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Travel Blogs from Seoul, Korea Rep.
5 months and 3 weeks!
Honestly, this past week has been pretty boring. I didn't really do much. Other than take care of the cat and try and find it a home. I think I may have found someone to take it. I am soooo excited. As cute as it is, I just can't have a cat. Yup, I'm ...
Memoirs of a Swim Cap
... Yoido last weekend. I have a nice schedule--work all week, vacation on the weekends. There is this place called Yoido Island in Seoul, right off the Han River. It is kinda like New York's Manhattan, but a lot smaller. It is mostly a business ...
Steven Curtis Chapman Concert
... out remind me of suburbian Detroit. It is also strange being with so many Americans at one time. I'm usually a minority here in korea. The concert was really good. Steven Curtis Chapman is a Christian artist. He told a bunch of stories about his ...
madness and moving
The next few days at work are spent decorating my classroom and preparing materials, although there is zero training happening and I still have no real idea what is going on. This place is beyond disorganized. Teaching begins less ...
We arrived
... . There is no way to get around it, it was a long day. We flew the northern route over Alaska etc. I will post later today my first impressions of Seoul and other information. I need to get ready for an early morning breakfast. ...
5 csillagos nap / Great great great day!
Ma nagyon jól telt a napom: reggel tanulás, pakolás, aztán pikk-pakk átköltöztem az új szobámba. Egyelőre szomszédok sincsenek, enyém az egész kecó és csend van!!! A kedvenc kimcsis levesem volt ma a menzán, ...
Three months are over!!!
... stood by the window and drank our beers. Other than drinking beers in the corner store, it did not feel like we were in Seoul. Quite depressing I must say. So the only place to go on a Korean holiday is the only place where things are open. Foreigners ...
"Wat...da...buck?"
... place. Strange customs here. Leaving campus, we headed over to Yongsan-dong to see the War Memorial of Korea, which had been a popular attraction in Seoul since its opening in 1994. Fortunately for Anne and me, Heather just happened to have majored in ...
NICK: Our last full day in Korea
See pictures, we just walked around and looked at more stuff. Not much more to write than ...
Arrived in Seoul, South Korea
WOW !! It's 2:20am west coast time, and we just arrived in Seoul. I have yet to change my watch to local time, which is 7:30pm. We have another 2 hours before we board the flight to Bangkok which is another 5:45 minute ...
We are in Korea!
... did great on the 14 hour flight but woke up this morning sick. I imagine the majority of it is fatigue and air-travel. Seoul is incredibly crowded and smoggy. We left Seoul early this morning for the area of Gyeongju and saw a number of fabulous ...
Week 7
... Only one more week of work left till holidays. I can't wait. I'm heading down to Busan (Pusan) for a few days. It's south South Korea. :) I miss you all. Please keep in touch. I've been slow with replying, but I do reply. ALWAYS. So, please drop me an ...
Saturday night, life is good.
Hi all... I finally have a computer in my house! I know it's a wee bit materialistic but it's oh so nice to be able to carry on normal daily activities with relative ease (i.e. pay bills, email, and such) And i took a few pictures for y'all so you can ...
Back home through South Korea
... to divert through South Korea, where I had to go out through customs and buy a new ticket to get to the U.S. South Korea's airport is very nice and the security lines and customs lines were extremely short. I was worried I wouldn't have enough ...
Changgyeonggung...long word
Smiley har faktisk et navn, han hedder Jung Hun. Idag tog Jung Hun med mig til et palads som faktisk ligger lige i naerheden, jeg vidste det bare ikke...smil. Det var lidt som at vaere sammen med Dave, vi tog en masse billeder og snakkede ikke ret meget ...
Seoul Stopover
... whne you want to watch it (those who have traveled overseas can understand this best)! Incheon, Korea's main international terminal is about an hour outside of Seoul so we took an airport bus (called airport limousine here) into Soeul. Chris, going ...
És hopp! / Say kimchiiiiiiiii
Kéthetes intenzív nyelvtanfolyamunk ma ért véget, ennek örömére készítettünk is egy csoportképet magunkról. A záródolgozatot az utolsó órában írtuk, amikor már mindenki éhes és fáradt volt, de érzésem szerint jól sikerült. Suli ...
NBA Asia Challenge
... of the Park. It was an awesome experience! Following that we went to Itaweon which is the largest English speaking district in Korea. It's the main spot in Korea all the foreigners get together on the weekends. There are all kinds of foreign pubs, bars ...
Back here again??
... in December, and a week's just too damn short to go to Europe or the continental U.S. Somehow Korea ended up fitting the bill. Unlike with Denpasar, the Seoul-bound flights had plenty of vacancies, so in the very least, we'd be going somewhere. Well, ...
Insel Soakmo Do
... Euro-Kiesen-Zeit. Na ja wie schon erwähnt haben wir einen Tempel besucht. Man sagt, dass es einer der schönsten Tempel in Korea sein soll. Er war riesig und wirklich schön. Allerdings hat er mich an die Paläste in Seoul erinnert. Zumindest hatte er ...
Cheonggyecheon - Seoul
Cheonggyecheon Sculpture "Spring" landmarks the newly unearthed river in downtown Seoul. The river was previously covered with a main highway through the city center due to the quick growth of the city. Recently the highway was ...
Kids Say the Darndest Things
Teaching children lends itself to moments of, much needed, comic relief. I'll change the names for privacy's sake. One child says he was sick yesterday. Mike turns to him, "were you bomiting through the night?" Obvioiusly ...
Building Confidence
... . I went to a Korean restaurant and had a really good bean curd stew for lunch, which cost virtually nothing. Wherever I read that Seoul is expensive was totally wrong. After the lunch and subway excursion, jet lag started to hit me, so I headed back ...
Leaving Korea
It's been a while!!! I can't believe how time flies! I'm leaving Korea in 5 days and I am experiencing every emotion possible. But the one word that keeps coming out of my mouth is "weird". It's just weird. Over the past few months not much has ...
Akció a köbön / Troubleshooters
Végre sort kerítettünk egy eredeti koreai akciófilm megnézésére a Yongsan CGV moziban. Az angol felirat nagyon kellett hozzá, de egy másodpercnyi elmélázást sem engedett a történet. Akciójelenetek sokasága, kavargó ...
Die ersten Tage
... Neuseeland wieder zu sich eingeladen, um einen (oder auch mehrere) mit ihm zu trinken. An unserem gemeinsamen letzten Tag in Seoul haben wir uns den Elektronik Markt angeschaut. Das Wetter war auch wieder besser, die Sonne hat sogar geschien. Mehr haben ...
Tying the knot
... culture difference opened my eyes and made me appreciate the western way of tying the knot. Getting married in Korea... I will refrain from using the words bizarre, strange, and absolutely and flat out weird, to abstain from being ...
The Life and Seoul of the Party!(Seoul, Korea)
... up at 5) was really grumpy, so it put a damper in my trip. But I did the infamous DMZ tour (demilitarized zone) where I saw N. Korea to the distance, stood by one of those mean looking soldiers, and ate some so-so Korean food. The best part (to me...the ...