Korea and Culture

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

Korean Karaoke (No-Rae-Bang)

So, you like Karaoke you say? Well you’ve got NOTHING on the love that Koreans have for Karaoke. Once you find yourself living in Bucheon [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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Palbong Mountain

The weekend of July 5-6, 2008, Martina and I went on a retreat with her teachers to celebrate the completion of exams, which is why [...]

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Gyeonggi Provincial Museum

We were really upset on Wednesday after hearing a presentation by one guy who we thought was cool. We spoke with him beforehand and he [...]

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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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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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