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| | | | |  | Bibimbap
2009-10-06, Hanok Village, Jeonju, Korea, South. By: lisasalo | | The highlight of our time at the Hanok Village in Jeonju was lunch. Not just any lunch but a Bibimbap Festival held on the grounds of a Confucian seminary. Bibimbap (mixed rice bowl) is the traditiona... |
| | | | | What was that back there?
2009-09-28, Hanok Village, Jeonju, Korea, South. By: lisasalo | | I admit, there have been times when I've been tempted to go the tour bus route while on vacation. How nice it would be, I have mused, to have someone handle my baggage, feed me, lead me by the hand an... |
| | | | | Orientation
2009-09-26, Jeonju University, Jeonju, Korea, South. By: lisasalo | | The 10 day EPIK orientation which followed our arrival in South Korea was a well-oiled machine that churned out a crew of ESL teachers who were ready to take on the world. Our days were filled with ES... |
| | | |  | Okay, everybody! Line up!
2009-09-25, Yangsan City, Korea, South. By: lisasalo | | On August 18, 2009, over 600 groggy ESL teachers, from various locations around the world, descended on S. Korea. Most of us hadn't slept for 24 hours. The only thing keeping us upright and moving for... |
| | | |  | Welcome aboard!
2009-09-20, Yangsan City, Korea, South. By: lisasalo | | After a brutal 17 hours of flight time, my travel partner and I arrived in South Korea safe and sound but exhausted on August 18, 2009. At one point during the flight, had there been parachutes on boa... |
| | | |  | Day 3
2009-09-06, Mapo, Korea, South. By: gck0124 | | She slept in today. I guess all the tours/walking wore her out. Me, being jetlagged, woke up at 7 ish and read a little. We were heading to the Palace today. |
| | | | | Day 2
2009-09-05, Mapo, Korea, South. By: gck0124 | | Woke up suuuuuper early to catch the bus to the JSA/DMZ tour. We had to get coffee of course at Tom and Toms right by my hotel. We headed down the subway and got off at City Hall and made our way to o... |
| | | | | Day 1
2009-09-04, Mapo, Korea, South. By: gck0124 | | It hadn't really hit me yet. I had this trip planned for months and here I was...on my way to Korea. Flying from San Diego to LA (3 hour layover) to Hong Kong (4 hour layover) and then finally to Seou... |
| | | |  | The Changing of the Guard...and my clothes.
2009-07-01, Seoul, Korea, South. By: sbennetj3 | | I decided to check out the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Deoksugung Palace. Upon arrival, I was approached by a Korean woman that asked if I would like to participate in the ceremony. Once I lea... |
| | | |  | The Soul of Asia
2009-07-02, Seoul, Korea, South. By: sbennetj3 | | When I lived and worked in Florida, two of my students told me that I should visit Korea. Yes, their idea was a bit biased because they just happened to be from Korea. I remember thinking it was a g... |
| | | |  | Korea
2008-11-10, Seoul, Korea, South. By: siqueira | | When I finish my day trip at Great Wall of China, I just took my luggage and I rush myself to the airport and almost lost my flight to Seoul - Korea, where I spent 3 days, met a friend of mine who I k... |
| | | |  | only in Korea
2009-04-29, Bundagi, Korea, South. By: zarine | | only in korea
i had 3 different ages.
my international age was 22.
on my coming birthday, i'll be 23.
in Korea, I'm 24.
sometimes, I'm confuse if they'll asked my age.
so I often say, I'm... |
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2008-09-03, Gwangju, Korea, South. By: zimmy222 | | First of all: Hello again. Thanks for visiting.
Second of all: I feel weird about writing a travel journal. (Let me call it a travel journal and not a blog; blogs are places where e-hip bloggeurs r... |
| | | |  | Gyeongbokgung (gee-hong-book-goong)
2008-08-03, Seoul, Korea, South. By: akprice | | Today, since it was a beautiful Sunday where I did not have to work for once, I decided to take a tour of a palace that I had only briefly viewed before!
It's really beautiful and busy. I was too t... |
| | | |  | Green Tea Planation
2008-07-31, Boseong, Korea, South. By: akprice | | This week I had two unexpected days off! I decided to take a trip to a rural part of Korea to go see a green tea plantation. I had viewed the place on the Visit Korea website and I was sold by the pic... |
| | | |  | Overdue update
2008-07-21, Seoul, Korea, South. By: akprice | | It's been almost, 10 months or so since my last update. I am still in Korea and I am still having fun in Seoul!
I finish my teaching here in a month and I can definitely say its been an experience.... |
| | | |  | ice ice baby.
2008-05-26, Seoul, Korea, South. By: fareast08 | | Since our last update, our time in Mongolia has come to a close. At the moment we're in Seoul, South Korea cause our ticket went from Ulan Bator to Beijing to Seoul to Manila so tonight we fly out at ... |
| | | |  | Easy Rider Korean Style
2008-03-13, Daegu, Korea, South. By: robby | | The sun shown on my face as I strapped on my helmet and mounted my ride. Ok it's a freaking scooter, but hey it's Korea. A guy here can wear pink camo and nobody looks twice. Anyway the weather was be... |
| | | | | Cambodia, It Won't Cost You an Arm and a Leg
2008-02-29, Daegu, Korea, South. By: robby | | For this trip, I decided to go somewhere a little more exciting than the normal trip to Japan or China. It has been a while since I have got out of Korea for more than one or two days, and let me tell... |
| | | | | Above the 38th parallel (climbing Sarok San)
2007-09-27, Daegu, Korea, South. By: robby | | Sarok San(san=mountain)....what a trip. Sarok San is actually above the 38th parallel, which divides North and South Korea. But this is on the east coast so the DMZ is actually still a couple hundred ... |
| | | | | Checkin' Out the city
2007-09-26, Seoul, Korea, South. By: akprice | | I had probably the best and most overwhelming day of shopping in my entire life on Saturday. I went to Dongdemun (dong-day-moon) Fashion Market which boasts to be one of the trendiest and best in the ... |
| | | | | Building Noahs Ark
2007-09-16, Daegu, Korea, South. By: robby | | The clouds have been camped out over Korea for the good part of the past two months hiding the sun and much of Mt. Apsan. I honestly dont know where all this rain water goes. But if it doesnt stop so... |
| | | | | Korean Meal
2007-09-15, Seoul, Korea, South. By: akprice | | I finally just had my first Korean style dinner/meal tonight. It was lovely!
I got to sit down on the floor with little mats while the waitress brought us salted seaweed for an appetizer. Much heal... |
| | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | Bits in pieces
2007-08-03, Daegu, Korea, South. By: robby | | Well sorry its been awhile and I am doing so poorly updatind everyone so I will try to catch everyone up.
First thing is I got a scooter. Yes it is crazy and I feel like Im in a middle of a NASCAR ... |
| | | | | GEMS English Camp
2007-07-30, Chonju, Korea, South. By: AEnglish84 | | Hello,
SO after my last final for my masters summer program, I packed up my clothes, sent home books (to Texas) and boarded a plane for South Korea. Our 14 hour plane ride was great. Habi, Patric... |
| | | |  | 1st Day on JeJu
2007-07-14, Jeju, Korea, South. By: ozyinkorea | | So the University paid for our flights and stuff to head to Jeju Island... it was one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, and the architecture was awesome- there were different looking styles... |
| | | | | The Cutesy Shops in Suwon
2007-07-14, Suwon, Korea, South. By: ozyinkorea | | Hiii Guys :)
I really love all the cutesy little shops in Suwon, they are just gorgeous, warning to guys though, go here and you'll feel all your masculine qualities leave in a flash. |
| | | | | where am i?
2007-05-30, Seoul, Korea, South. By: adraut | | 5:30 wake up before the alarm
finish packing
omelet and toast for breakfast
8:15 leave for the airport
10:55 flight to O'Hare
baby crying
sleeping
reading Pride and Preju... |
| | | | | Toilets???
2007-07-01, Suwon, Korea, South. By: ozyinkorea | | The toilets here are really really full of water. I dont know if we have differect style toilets in Aus or if we only part full them cos of water restrictions. When I arrived I went around and check... |
| | | | | A great night with the fellow ex-pats
2007-07-01, Suwon, Korea, South. By: ozyinkorea | | Last night I had a really nice first night outta my country. I went searching for sissors so I could cut off my safety latches on my bags. And walked in on about 15 people having a banquet of really ... |
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