Non-Video Posts Teaching in Korea

A Korea Blog on Life in Korea, Kpop Music, and Teaching English in Korea

Gepik Workshop

We are now around two hours away from our home in Bucheon at a week-long Gepik conference for Native English teachers. We arrived yesterday at [...]

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Our Sun and Clouds

Here’s a movie of the view from our window. Fifteen hours of it, actually. We made a stop animation movie of the view from our [...]

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Goodie Bag

We were gathering the forces of darkness to bring you a giant entry of goodies! Food, Engrish, and Fun await you, so read on! We [...]

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Three More Movies

Here’s a hodgepodge of unrelated movies. The first is of our experience with take home pizza. Yes, we are obsessed with pizza, as you all [...]

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We Lost the Internets

Our cover was blown. We have been leeching the internet off of someone for our entire stay here in Korea. Yesterday, they finally clued in, [...]

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VolleySock

Many of you may have heard Simon talk of this awesome game. It’s volleyball meets soccer, hence the name VolleySock (we thought for a long [...]

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Bike Ride Through Jung Ang Park

Well, this post is so old and we had so many videos in one post and it’s difficult to put in more than one video [...]

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Our First Mail!

Today we finally got our first letters in the mail. The mail system here, in case we didn’t tell you before, is very weird. In [...]

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Simon’s New Office

Today started off pretty poorly for me. To begin with, I forgot my Starbucks Double Shots at home. I usually pack two in my bag [...]

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Our Sunday Adventure

On Sunday, we went with my (Simon’s) co-teacher to Ganghwa-Do, a mountain with many Buddhist Temples, and Aegisbon, which is a mountain in South Korea [...]

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Happy Anniversary to Us!

Today is our one-year anniversary! We’re spending it far from home, and with the time-zone shift we think we might have started celebrating our anniversary [...]

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Our Saturday Flop

This Saturday we were supposed to meet our friend Jen in Seoul. We stayed up late at night trying to figure out the subway system, [...]

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Korean Bars

After a long days work on Friday, Simon and I decided it was time to go to a bar. That’s right, we broke our normal, [...]

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We’re Going to Seoul! (Plus Bonus Picture)

We’re going to Seoul today to visit our friend Jen Kreisz, who we met in teacher’s college. She’s in Sinchon, which is a very hipster [...]

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Non-Gu (Basketball)

Today I played basketball. I have been playing for a week now or so, but today is a special day. I finally played against somebody! [...]

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Korean Street Food

So here’s the deal with Korean Street Meat: It’s delicious, dirt cheap, and loaded with variety. In toronto, you have two choices: hot dog or [...]

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Korean Washrooms

One of the things I’m always interested in when travelling to other countries (because, after all, I travel so much), is what the washrooms are [...]

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The School System

Today is the first of three days that I (Simon) have to spend in an empty school. The entire school is away on a three-day [...]

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