2008 August Posts - Eat Your Kimchi

Korean FAQ

We realize that a lot of what we say in this blog isn’t really useful for living or teaching in Bucheon, Korea; we just like [...]

Odd Korean Beverages

There are a few unfortunate people we know who hate Korean food and can’t break out of their North American eating habits. It’s for people [...]

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Cost of Living in Korea

One of the main reasons why we moved to Korea was to pay off our debts. Korea provides a very lucrative opportunity for the both [...]

Cool Korean Stuff

We always have our camera with us, and shamelessly make movies of just about everything we find interesting. Here’s a prime example of this habit [...]

Korean Mailboxes

Too many times have we heard that opening somebody else’s mail is a federal offense, or a felony, or something serious, and it could land [...]

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Spudgy’s Doggy Depression

Poor Spudgy! As you may know if you’ve been reading our Spudgy posts, we were taking him to the vet a lot lately (which happens [...]

How to Make Dok Bok Ki

One of the things Simon and I really miss about living in Canada is homemade cooking. We love to cook and bake, but it is [...]

Korean Traffic Directors

This is the kind of stuff we expected to see when we came to Bucheon. We thought that life would be normal here, but there [...]

Korean Public Gyms

Here are a few things Korea (or just Bucheon) has a lot of: corn in their meals, new cars, buildings with different stores on different [...]

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Korean Computer Games

In yesterday’s post we mentioned how we luckily stopped at Yongsan Electronics Market, which is eight stories of electronics goodness. We’re going there again in [...]

National Museum of Korea

This past Saturday we went with Sasha to the National Museum of Korea in hopes of soaking up some Korean Culture. We promised her a [...]

How to Use the Korean Subways

We really like the way Korean public transportation (official name: Korail) works, as you can see in an older post we made on them. It’s [...]

Korean Menus

Last week we made a post about Korean Food Courts and included a video about them, but we forgot to mention one thing about the [...]

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Rubber Glove Story

A long time ago we wrote briefly about Martinaâ€™s maddening experience with buying rubber gloves. Essentially, Martina wanted rubber gloves for washing the dishes, because [...]

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Excited Spudgy

Weâ€™ve been receiving a few concerned emails and questions about how lazy our dog Spudgy seems. â€œDoes Spudgy do anything?â€, â€œYour dog sleeps all dayâ€, [...]