Blogs from South Korea, Asia - page 381

Leaving Korea Part 2 Jeremy: Immediately after we put in our 30 days notice, we headed for the old Silla capital of Gyeongju. (Jen: Getting there was in itself quite an adventure. We had called the English tourist line to find out the best way to get there. We were told we could take the express bus to Nopo-dong where we would catch the next bus to the capital. This would save us about 40 minutes time and we were in need of all the extra time we could get. We stood waiting in front of the line for the 2002 bus. Everyone around us was hopping on buses, but the one we needed didn’t seem to come. We spent over an hour waiting for it and it was supposed to run every 20 minutes. Finally ... read more

Photos at: Korea Photos --------- Trip Diary Cities/Towns covered: Seoul, Andong, Gyeongju, Busan, Jeju and Gongju Sep 29 (Wed) Flight from SIN-BKK at 08:20. Followed by BKK-Incheon via HKG. Thus had to get down from the aircraft twice, with one aircraft change at BKK. Nice conversation with Sierra Leone Muslim chap from Jalloh tribe who lives/works in Freetown. Stationary-related businessman. Landed in Incheon Airport around 7+pm. Walked up to Info desk for my first encounter with South Korea’s superb courteous, friendly, helpful tourist service. Picked up KT telephone card for 3000 Won from airport convenience store and called Jang-Eun. Boarded bus 10 bound for Dobangsan costing 12000Won! -passing by Banghak-dong where Jang-Eun stays. (every 30 mins bus departure). Thes... read more

Our trip to Jeju: July 31-August 4 We were unable to access our live journal for so long there is some more catching up to do. Our school was generous enough to allot three entire days of summer vacation from August 2-4, so we decided to use that bountiful block of time to take some sort of trip. Our wise employers rightly decided to only give us about a month head start on planning-they were right in that because they knew about the vacation time long before we did and were able to book their trips without worrying about us taking up valuable tickets and hotels. So we were in a mad dash to book a flight on what turned out to be vacation time for every Korean and Japanese man, woman, and child. We considered ... read more

(Jen writing) Well as many of you have noticed (and commented on) we have not updated our journal in quite some time. The reason for this was actually not pure laziness. We have not been able to access the site from overseas for about a month and a half. We had to wait until I was in the U.S. in order to switch it over. The new site is http://jeren.blogspot.com/ We hope to be updating this one quite often. We hope everyone is doing well. We miss you all and hope to see you soon. School Life (Jen writing) Well, another week is almost done. I certainly have my days where teaching frustrates me, but I have to say I do like it more than I thought I would. The children here, for the most ... read more

  My lonely planet guide tells me that hiking is a national past time in South Korea, and i've found it to be true. The past five days have been what I really call to be a holiday.  I've had the pleasure of finally meeting and getting to know my friend from South Korea in person. I've been to a string of really nice islands off the coast near Gunsan for one day. Next day was to a provincial park where we pretty much rock climbed up a 673 m plus mountain. Next day was to folk village. Next to   I'll update this later... Sleep time.... read more