Korea and Culture

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

Korean Sound Effects

Here are a bunch of different Korean Sound Effects that we’ve found in different Korean Comics aka Mahwas.

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TL;DR – Funny Stories from Korea

TL;DR – language barriers are frustrating but sometimes hilarious, and Spudgy feels no shame.

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Seoul Fashion Week

Simon was lucky enough to get press and backstage passes to Seoul Fashion Week. Here’s a short video of what he saw.

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Happy Seollal, Korean Lunar New Year!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Seollal is one of Korea’s two mega-holidays, right up there with Chuseok, which you might remember from our Chuseok dancing [...]

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Haeundae Beach

If you can’t tell by now, we totally love Busan. Every time we make a video about it, be it either for the Jagalchi Fish [...]

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Yonggungsa Temple

A while ago we did a video about Busan’s Jagalchi Fish Market for Simon’s trip to Busan. There was a lot of footage from those [...]

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Christmas in Korea

Merry Christmas everyone! Last year we presented to you another Christmas in Korea video, in which you saw Simon going from class to class dressed [...]

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Pepero Day in Korea!

A long time ago we did a Pepero Day video, but now that video is old and smelly. Time for a new Pepero Day video! [...]

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Jagalchi Fish Market

We don’t get to travel Korea as much as we’d like. In fact, we spend most of our time in Bucheon. But, a short while [...]

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Busan to Seoul

The Busan International Film Festival is in full force now, and Simon got to go to it for two days. Huzzah! During those two days, [...]

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Quilt Your Korean Map

A while ago we mentioned how we were going to be on Arirang TV, and had made two episodes with them.  We were able to [...]

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Koreatown in Toronto, Canada

In case you didn’t know, we were recently in Toronto for three weeks for our summer vacation. Oh, how we missed Canada! Funny thing is, [...]

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R16 Korean Breakdancing Championships

This past weekend were the R16 Korea 2010 World B-Boy Championships, and we were given press passes to go. Huzzah! We were almost right on [...]

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Korean World Cup Soccer Fever

We’ve never watched the Fifa World Cup like this before. Koreans cheering for their soccer team is a new level of wonderful insanity that we’ve [...]

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K-League Korean Soccer

We were contacted by the Suwon Bluewings Fan Club to make a video about Korean Soccer, and we were open to the idea. After all, [...]

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Ajosshis in the Park

If you couldn’t tell from our last video on Korean Foot Massages, we just bought a new camera, a Canon 550d (also known as a [...]

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Korean Foot Massages

For one of our anniversaries back in Canada, we went for a couple’s massage. It was wonderful, luxurious, and expensive, but relaxing. Last year for [...]

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Adventure to Korea’s Everland!

A few Saturdays ago we woke up early and decided to go to Everland. Everland! One of Korea’s awesome amusement parks! Hooray! Problem was, Everland’s [...]

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