Blogs from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Asia - page 8

It's simple... We live in SK, and we have been able to find somethings in various markets around Seoul like the "Foreign Foods Market" where they sell your average North American products at three times the price! Then there are the few shops around various shopping areas who also bring in a few "foreign products" and then try to make a killing on the pricing because there are slim to none and people will do anything for those niblets from their home country! Simply put... If you send us something from the country you are in; Chocolates, Gum, Toothpaste, or anything you can think of that someone might miss when they are traveling around You send us something, anything, to us in South Korea and we will return the favor! And I can tell you this... ... read more

Chopping down the Christmas tree in the woods, decorating it by the fire, eating popcorn and laughing were all parts of those years gone by. Many years went by where I stayed away from anything surrounding Christmas. Friends invited me over, girlfriends, acquaintances from work but I would always decline. Then something happened; I got married. Since our marriage we have been attending the Jackson Family Christmas and slowly I have learned to enjoy myself through the singing of Christmas carols to the eating of treats and goodies all day indoors. We've even managed from time to time to decorate the house with lights, build a snow man and make snow angels, too! Then we were off to South Korea and the only holiday Shauna, dislikes missing is Christmas. I figured we'd have no problems getting ... read more

It's a mystery around here why we get all this wonderful fog... but these are images I captured on a Tuesday night before our Photography Club. About a month after our arrival several teachers approached us about putting together workshops on teaching, teachers around campus how to take better photographs. Once the teachers learned about our extensive visual arts backgrounds in commercial photography, drawing, fine art, illustration, and photojournalism they asked us to put on photography workshops. In October, I decided it was time to offer up to the teachers these Photography Workshops so that by the end of the winter they would have the knowledge about their cameras and be ready to start taking better images because they would learn more about themselves as photographers, what they enjoyed taking images of; architecture, landscapes, people, what ... read more

Two weeks ago, Andrew, Tim and I met a random Korean guy out front of the local GS25 at 3:35 in the morning! We were grabbing a bite to eat after a session of noribong, the korean version of karokee where you are placed in a small room with microphones, sound speakers and a karokee machine! We had been out with a bunch of co-workers but they had all left us at the convenience store. During one of our discussions this random Korean guy started asking us random broken English questions prompting Andrew to speak in Korean. After several minutes of conversation we all walked behind the GS25 heading for our cars. Peering into the backseat of the Korean guys Samsung K7 automobile I spotted box upon box of Red Tiger Ball Paint! Quickly we asked ... read more

Tonight, Shauna and I decided to venture out of "the village" in search of food. Our luck so far has been good with finding places to eat around our little country side town of Beopheung-ri in Paju City. We tried inviting a few people along but to no avail we ended up leaving on our own accord around 6:30pm in search of nutrients. Walking out through the large wooden arched doors, beneath the Gyeonggi English Village sign, heading south towards the immigration office, around the outside stepping out past two EV buses we took a left in front of the replica of Stone Henge. Another twenty meters we reached the top of the hill deciding to cross here instead of at the lights near the bottom of the hill. As we slowly began the crossing at ... read more