Blogs from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Asia - page 31

I'm starting to think Korean now. No, not the language. With everything I do, I am starting to imagine what it will be like in Korea, how I would perform the same acts, what it will look like and feel like. While making dinner just last night, I wondered "will there be StoveTop Stuffing in Korea? Probably not. What will I cook as a side dish instead? Will it be vegetables, some sort of cabbage similar to kimchi?" Then lying in my bed at night I wondered "My room will be smaller. Probably my bed smaller and maybe my comforter won't be quite as comfortable. I won't be on the second floor of a house in a neighborhood I grew up in, but probably on the 8th floor of an apartment building in a country ... read more

Chusok is the name for Korea's version of Thanksgiving Holidays. This year we apparently lucked out as to what days the holiday fell on because we only had to work the Monday of the week!!! The Tuesday was National Foundation Day (October 3rd) - separate from Chusok, but nonetheless it was still a day off! Chusok day is actually the 6th, but the 5th and 7th are also holidays. The idea is to allow people enough time off work so that they can go back to their hometowns and spend time with family and also visit the grave sites of ancestors. As a result, most large cities become deserted and highways are rammed with carloads of families traveling to their hometown. During the Monday of this week all the kindergarten children came to school dressed ... read more