Korea and Culture

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Martina’s Jeju Trip: Day 3

And here is day 3 of Martina’s Trip to Jeju Island. In it, you’ll finally start to see what makes Jeju Island so famous: it’s [...]

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Martina’s Jeju Trip: Day 2

Here’s Day 2 of Martina’s Trip to Jeju Island. The day started off with a hike up a mountain (is it just us, or do [...]

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Martina’s Trip to Jeju Island

If you haven’t been to Jeju Island, you’re missing out on your Korean experience. Jeju is a tiny island located at the most southern point [...]

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Korean Monsoon Season

Last year we posted some pictures about Korean Monsoon Season. We think that we gave off the impression, though, that rainy season is all cute [...]

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Korean Karaoke Revisited

Sure, we made a post about Korean Karaoke a while ago, but – let’s face it – the video kinda sucked. We didn’t really give [...]

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What the Book!

We’re both English majors, so we love books. Love em! Unfortunately, it’s not all too easy to find a good selection of English books here [...]

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Korean White Day + Secret Surprise for Martina

If you remember Valentine’s Day from last month, we made a post about how it differs here in Korea than what we’re used to from [...]

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Korean Valentine’s Day

It’s Valentine’s Day in Korea! Just when we thought we knew a holiday inside and out, we discovered we were wrong. February 14th in Korea [...]

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Our Adventure at Seoul Tower

We’re currently enjoying vacation time, so we thought maybe it was time to visit all the touristy things. Yes, “touristy” is a word (it’s not). [...]

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Our Favorite Korean Cafe

We posted a couple of videos a while ago on Insadong and its Cookie Makers. Quite possibly, Insadong is our favorite place to go outside [...]

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Korean Sticker Booths

Our experiences with photo booths in Canada are limited to a tiny booth with a single strip of 4 pictures that are overpriced for how [...]

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Korea’s Insadong: Cookies and Culture

A couple of weekends ago we went to Insadong in Seoul to do a bit of Christmas shopping and soak in some culture. Yes, we [...]

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Korea’s Coex Aquarium

We were looking for things to do over the weekend apart from lesson planning. We decided to go to the Coex Aquarium as a result. [...]

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Intro to Pepero Day in Korea

Yesterday was a very solemn holiday in Canada: Remembrance Day. We were surprised, though, to find a different holiday being celebrated here in Korea on [...]

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Upcoming Jens Lekman Concert in Korea

**Note: this post is now over two years old. Jens Lekman isn’t coming to Korea now. Sorry!** The two of us are pretty big music [...]

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Korean Products

In North America, you have your common big-name products: Pepsi, Oreo, Tide, Heinz, Dentyne etc. In Korea, we’ve got different name brands; and so we [...]

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Korean Magic Perms

We’re trying to get into Korean Fashion, as you saw with post on Korean Couple Shirts, but we know that fashion goes beyond clothes. In [...]

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Korean Cold Medicine

We mentioned in yesterday’s post that Simon was beginning to show the signs of a cold on Saturday during Bucheon’s High School Festival. By Wednesday [...]

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