Starcraft 2 in Korea

If you plan to live in Korea, especially if you want to teach in Korea, you will inevitably, somehow or someway, come across Starcraft. It’s inescapable. Starcraft is big in Korea. So big that there are professional Starcraft leagues, where people make a living off of playing Starcraft. So big that there are studies being [...]

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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 show one of the episodes in their from Today’s Blog, but couldn’t put up the other episode. Well, just recently we were given permission by Arirang TV to finally put [...]

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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, when we were in Canada, we missed Korea as well. We felt kinda homesick, in a reverse homesick kinda twisted way. Luckily for us, since we were in Toronto there [...]

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Extra Footage: YouTube’s Life in a Day

YouTube recently had it’s Life in a Day event, in which we had to shoot a video about a day in our lives. We submitted it to YouTube and, if the directors like it, they’ll use it for a video they’re making, where thousands of thousands of other people also submitted their lives in a [...]

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Driving Through Seoul at Night

Since we got our new camera, we feel artsy-fartsy every once in a while, like you can see in our Ajosshis video a little while back. Today’s another one of those days that we feel artsy. We were inspired by the scene in Lost in Translation when Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson are driving through [...]

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Why I Love Teaching

Believe it or not, but we love teaching. Love it. Teaching in Korea isn’t just a job for us. It’s our careers, and it’s something we’re really passionate about. We teach English in Canada, and we teach English in Korea as well. But it’s hard to explain to people why we like teaching so much, [...]

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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 stage as they were breakdancing! So we were able to get some really good footage of the action, and we put together a video of the Crew Battles. Crews from [...]

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