Three Years in Korea!

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have now been here for three years. Holy, holy crap! We did not foresee this at all. We came to Korea back at the end of May 2008 and thought we’d just teach here for a year, and then go to another country and start teaching there. After our first year was up, we decided to stay for another year, because we really liked it. We were sure we’d leave after that year.

By the end of our second year, things started to look a bit different. Our site and videos were keeping us really busy so Simon stopped teaching and decided to focus on making the website better, while Martina signed on with her school for another year. In the year that followed we wanted to see how much further we could go with the site. Would it be just a hobby for us to give up at the end of the year when we left the country, or would we put all of our energy and time into these videos and make it our full-time job? We decided with the latter. And so we bought better gear for our videos, upgraded our movie editing skills, and planned for new segments. We were shocked to see that we went from a few thousands views to over two million video views a month. WOW! AMAZING!!!

The end of our third year in Korea is almost up. This Thursday marks Martina’s last day at her school (she’s an emotional wreck as she loves loves loves her school) and we just moved into a new apartment. We’re both ready to work on making more videos and to add some new weekly segments that we always wanted to do, but never had time for. *Simon and Martina high five*

Eatyourkimchi is our baby and now it’s our only job. We’re not getting funded by the government or getting support from any organization. We’re doing this on our own with the help of whatever ad revenue we make from this site and from our videos, and also from our t-shirt sales. Speaking of which, we just recently sold out of t-shirts, so thanks to all of you who supported us by buying a shirt! We really really appreciate it. We’re looking for a new printer as we speak and can hopefully start rolling out some new designs

For those of you who would like to help us out and support us in some way, we have a support page set up. Any contributions would be greatly appreciated…especially by the Spudgy, who receives an extra minute of head-scratches and tummy-touches for every dollar given. More importantly, your contributions help keep the site going, so we can keep coming up with more videos and keep upgrading our gear in hopes of upping our quality, and keep the ramen in our tummies.

And so we come to this video, which is a compilation our memories from this past year. Really everyone, thank you so much for watching our videos and supporting us with your heartwarming emails and comments. What started off as just a hobby, just something we wanted to do to for our families has changed our lives to an unbelievable degree, and we couldn’t have done it if you didn’t like our videos.

Also, a special thanks go out to Mark Rajakovic for letting us use his awesome music. The song in this video is called 1976, and if you like his music check out his album via iTunes.

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http://twitter.com/devileyes_aii 嘉.Strawberry.Ai

I want to make donations for yall but since I’m a student (oh I live in SG ^^) I can’t…
I’ll continue to support you guys by watching your videos and visiting your site. )
Good luck in your future endeavours )
http://twitter.com/HappieDiana Diana

Amazing. :’)
http://twitter.com/trcj Tracy Johnson

Your videos really are amazing. My partner and I hope to move to Korea in Feb to teach and when I started doing research on S. Korea I came across your blog. I have become obsessed!! I started from the beginning and am working my way through ALL your videos (I am at this point in about 1.5 weeks). You have such great humour and spirit! You always make me laugh! But also have tons of knowledge!

What I like best, however, is that you have always been positive in your videos about your experiences in Korea. In a lot of other blogs I’ve found they may count down the days until they leave the country and I dont think that is the way to experience a country. You only get out of an experience what you put in!

Keep on keepin’ on.

t

ps. I am secretly hoping to get a job in your city so we can go to all those sweet little coffee shops you’ve posted about!

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Simon and Martina

Thanks Tracy! If you do make it to Bucheon, send us an email

a5647

so nice videos~~ i’m impressed many things .. thanks a lot~~
Anonymous

Oooooh i’m so moved TT-TT this is really great, I love you!!!
Nani Chun

I’ve been to that Morning Glory store on Bloor St. The lady in there is a real bitch. Not exaggerating. She’ll watch you like a hawk cause she’s paranoid. Just a warning. No offense.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003256549337 RoRo Vladimir

I absolutely love you guys! I’m glad that you guys are actually able to make a living off of doing what you love most, making awesome videos. Hope you guys can stay in Korea for many more years, joyful and excited for each new day! <3 Best of Wishes!