Living in Korea

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

Korean Elections

Here’s a view of what campaigns are like during election time in Korea. Ooh! Look at all the pretty colors!

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The Most Awkward Questions Our Students Ever Asked

Here are two of the most awkward questions our students in Korea have ever asked. Hint: they’re both dirty.

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WTF – Our Last WTF

We’re going to put our WTF series on hiatus as we try something new. Here’s our last edition, complete with a super giveaway package!

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Special WTF Edition: Fan Mail Candies!

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find are the awesome candies you all sent us! Some are great, some are terrible, all are exciting!

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WTF – High Heel Foot Pain Fixers

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find is some weird things that make your feet feel better after wearing high heels.

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WTF – Spiky Hand Massage Balls

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find is another awkward massage thingy: spiky balls that hurt like hell!

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B1A4 Beautiful Target – Kpop Music Mondays

This week we review B1A4 – aka BILASA – Beautiful Target, and welcome the presence of their new reggae member.

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WTF – Chalkboard Arm Protectors

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find are chalkboard arm protectors, for those times that you get chalk all over your arms.

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Public Displays of Affection in Korea

For this week’s TL;DR we discuss PDA in Korea, how common it is, and how it differs from North America.

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WTF – Pedobear Mug

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find is a Bear Mug…and it has wonderful Engrish on it.

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WTF – Smacap

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find is the multiscarf multiscarf multiscarf multiscarf multiscarf multiscarf multiscarf multiscarf.

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WTF – Inappropriate Hangers

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find are inappropriate hangers, found in a regular, appropriate store…

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TLDR – Crazy Driving and Line Butting

TLDR – We can’t get used to the overly aggressive driving and cutting in line in Korea.

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WTF – Pteranodon Balloons!

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find is a Pteronodon balloon, which we thought was going to be fun, but wasn’t.

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TLDR – Worst Mistake in Korea

TLDR – Sometimes being experimental at restaurants leads to bad decisions.

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WTF – Japan Boobs

This week’s WTF is the Japan edition, with some INSTANT BOOBS! Yes, Instant Boobs!

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FT Island – Hello Hello: Kpop Music Mondays

This week for Kpop Music Mondays we review F.T. Island’s “Hello Hello” and try to understand firefighting.

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WTF – Solar Visors

This week we play around with Solar Visors, which is usually reserved for old Korean women.

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