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Eat Your Kimchi Version 3.0

So we’ve got a lot to mention. Here goes: 1) The big announcement is that we are now Gepik Representatives for Bucheon City. What does [...]

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The End of Bucheon’s Autumn

Winter hasn’t officially kicked in yet, but it’s starting to get mighty cold. The leaves on all of the trees are almost all off, and [...]

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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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ESL Lessons for Public School Teachers

After many hours of difficult work, the ESL Resources section is finally up and ready to go. We have compiled our lesson plans and materials, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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How to Learn Korean

So, you want to learn to speak and read Korean? Well so do we! After living in Korea for just over two months, we’ve quickly [...]

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Spudgy’s Car Accident

Today we took Spudgy to the vet to get him all fixed up. Last week the vet merely checked him over to see what we [...]

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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 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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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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Gepik Workshop

We are now around two hours away from our home in Bucheon at a week-long Gepik conference for Native English teachers. We arrived yesterday at [...]

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Goodie Bag

We were gathering the forces of darkness to bring you a giant entry of goodies! Food, Engrish, and Fun await you, so read on! We [...]

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We Lost the Internets

Our cover was blown. We have been leeching the internet off of someone for our entire stay here in Korea. Yesterday, they finally clued in, [...]

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Our First Mail!

Today we finally got our first letters in the mail. The mail system here, in case we didn’t tell you before, is very weird. In [...]

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Happy Anniversary to Us!

Today is our one-year anniversary! We’re spending it far from home, and with the time-zone shift we think we might have started celebrating our anniversary [...]

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