Korea and Culture

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

Korean Recycling

One of the great things about Korea is that it is very clean. The subways are immaculate. There is no garbage on them nor is [...]

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Snorting Spudgy

Dogs usually wag their tails or shake their back legs when they’re happy. Spudgy does all of that, but he also does something special. What [...]

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Korean Couple Shirts

Oh, you thought we were cheesy before. You would make fun of us for our pet names and public displays of affection. Well, you wouldn’t [...]

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Newest Member of the Stawski Family

Ladies and gentlemen, there’s someone new in our lives that we’d like to introduce to you. His name is Spudgy, and he is pictured here, [...]

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Our Canadian Friend Chris

This is our new friend Chris. We met him at that GEPIK Native English teacher weeklong conference. Turns out he is as much of a [...]

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Monsoon Season in Bucheon

It is monsoon season here in Bucheon, Korea, and so when the sun isn’t scalding then the rain is torrential. It’s big and relentless, and [...]

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Forgotten Pictures

Remember when we climbed up that ridiclously huge mountain? That was on a Saturday. What we didn’t tell you about is what we did on [...]

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Korean Music Awards

We noticed through our window that something was being built in the park. It was a massive stage, with hundreds of lawn chairs in front [...]

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A Tour of Our Apartment

This video is long, long overdue. We actually made it in three parts: the ones with Martina in the t-shirt were made many weeks ago; [...]

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Supercool Phone

This is a student in Simon’s Extra classes. He’s in this class for no good reason. The class is full of students with very weak [...]

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Korean Coffee Shop Snacks

Ever go to a coffee shop and feel like having a snack with your beverage? A muffin, perhaps? A cookie? Maybe a sandwich? Here in [...]

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Korean Ice Cream!

Ice Cream is a must with Korea’s heat. Ice Cream in Korea is also delicious. Also, Korean Ice Cream is sold in special ways, with [...]

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Martina’s New Haircut!

I finally got my hair cut! After fighting with the hot and humid Korean weather, I walked out of the house and into a Korean [...]

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Korean Basketball

As many of you know, I – Simon – play a lot of basketball. I play every day unless rain or socializing gets in the [...]

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Miso: Korean Traditional Music

Martina’s Vice-Principal gave us free tickets to see some traditional Korean music, in hopes that we could better appreciate Korean Culture. It was to be [...]

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We Have the Internets!

It’s finally here! Yesterday we spent the day waiting for the technician to install the internets. He was supposed to be here at 10. He [...]

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Class Control

I had to take a movie of this, even though it’s not that exciting. I have a class of students who are rowdy as all [...]

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Korean Busrides

Before we climbed up Palbong Mountain on Saturday we had to get there. And so we took a fancy pants bus. What impressed us most [...]

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