I had never been hiking before I came to Korea. The thought of climbing a mountain always sounded great but actually doing it terrified me. Around February time, a group of us decided to climb a small mountain in the area we live in. The climb nearly killed me, however, I vowed that I would get fit and try to climb the tallest mountain in mainland South Korea before I left for pastures new. The weekend that has just past, Andy and I did exactly that; we climbed all 1,915 metres of mount Jirisan! I am immensely proud of myself for [View Full Entry]

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Its Monday 17th September and I (Emma) am sitting in a PC Bang, a large room that contains around 200 PC's. There are people in here studying, playing shoot 'em up games, racing car games, writing essays etc. There is also a guy here who looks like he may have been here since Friday. There is no natural light and I can see how you could loose track of time in a place like this.I am also killing time before I meet a friend. I have just been for my chest X-Ray, which, hopefully will be clear allowing me to enter [View Full Entry]

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The last month has been the slowest on record. The first 10 months of our Korean experience went so fast, the last month has felt like travelling up to Scotland on a tandem bike with only one person peddling. I dont know why it has seemed so slow. It just has. The last month has also seen good friends leave. It was bye-bye to Wes in August, and then cheerio to Liz 2 weeks ago. Yesterday, it was adios to Kim. We have had a few big nights out..partying until 9am at Michael and Jens...dancing with stuffed toy lions and cavorting [View Full Entry]

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Cathay Pacific rocks. We managed to get extra leg room, great movies and plenty of red wine/beer on our flight from London to Hong Kong. The only downside to the flight was that we didn't get any shuteye for the whole flight. We landed at 6am or so and headed towards our hotel in Kawloon, the 'Las Vegas', which promised sea views, big windows allowing us lots of light and very spacious. The Las Vegas was nestled within a building in Kawloon, an area renowned for its multi national community y, shops and the ability to score a 'real' Gucci bag [View Full Entry]

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Andys powers of persuasion worked on his director, which resulted in a few extra days holiday to go back to England for L&O's wedding. We eventually touched down at Heathrow at 6am on Wednesday July 18th. My sister Charlotte picked us up at the airport in her new sporty little number, and as we drove we thought of ways to wake my mum up without giving her heart attack as she would still be in bed AND she had no idea we were coming home! We got back to the house and Charlotte went into the bedroom to wake mum up, [View Full Entry]

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Celebrating the loss of our Colonies Asia » South Korea » Busan By em andy July 5th 2007 em&andy We have made many good friends here in Korea and most of them are either American or Canadian. After spending the weekend in Seoul on Canada Day (1st July) and missing our friends A&D party we decided to have a 4th July party at our new apartment to cele [View Full Entry]

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Being cultural Asia » South Korea » Seoul By em andy July 1st 2007 em&andyAlong with two friends, we headed up to Seoul for a cultural weekend of visiting the DMZ, royal palaces and for Em to get a new dress for Lynsey and Ollies upcoming wedding. Here are the pics... [View Full Entry]

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I forgot just how different to Busan Seoul really is. We live near Busan which is very Asian; bright lights, hectic, busy streets etc. Seoul is very much like London with its cosmopolitan feel, wider streets, and so many waegooks that you almost forget you are in Asia! After an amazing morning at the DMZ we headed back to the centre of Seoul and hit the electronics market. A few months back we had our camera stolen. I was pretty gutted as this had been a gift from all my friends at Haymarket. We have been saving to buy a [View Full Entry]

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We have recently moved apartment. When we fist moved to Korea the contract Andy took was based on our apartment which was big, new and very modern. Unfortunately, when the contract was signed we didn’t realise we were signing up for 7 months of abuse, racist chants and indecent exposure from our neighbour. The neighbour, I will refer to him as *s* as been an absolute nightmare from the word go. It all began when we first moved in back in November and was often told to 'shut up' and 'be quiet'. This then moved on to smashing things, kicking at [View Full Entry]

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Beachee fun Asia » South Korea » Busan By em andy June 12th 2007 em&andyThe last month and a half have consisted of many weekends away or mid week jaunts to the beach. Monsoon season is nearly upon us so we have been taking full advantage of the sunny and sometimes 'too hot' weather. These pics are courtesy of some of our friends out here as some [View Full Entry]

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