Blogs from Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Asia - page 3

Ok, so I have been in Korea almost two week, it's now christmas, christmas day in fact, and I am writing my travel blog..... strange. My time in Korea is spent in various ways, firstly I teach, not exactly taxing only teaching 5-7 hours a day monday to friday, but the classes being in the evening prevents much being done afterwards. Seongnam, which is on the Seoul Subway line is the poor part of this 'satelite' city of Seoul. The small city is jam packed with retsaurants serving anything from fried seaweed, to Pizza and in some cases dog, apparently Seongnam has a famous dog meat market, a place I shall go when I need to cry. Secondly I spend alot of time reading, mostly sitting in coffee shops, not that I'm there for the fantastic ... read more

Day 1 and settling in OK, I arrived last night and spent some time with my boss and a man name Bista-moon (who also works at my language school), we spent time buying a few necessites, bedding etc. After than I headed to a restaurant, being a vegetarian Korean cuisine is baffled by my dietary requitement, but an assortment of side dishes seems to suffice, though it's not rare to find the odd octopus tenticle or piece of pork in anything. Despite the issues the food was good. After my trip of shopping visiting various shops, buying incredibly ugly bedding and a huge pack of toilet rool, among other boring items, I went to my apartment, it's small but cosy, the only issue seems to be that blankets are attached over the windows to stop the ... read more

Hello Again! School is getting busier this time of year as Report Cards are due this week and there are only 6 weeks left until our Christmas break. We are excited! The past couple weekends have been full of fun! I'm feeling better and we've been able to get out and explore Korea more! Last weekend our boss's son took the entire staff out for traditional Galbi (Korean BBQ) I think to smooth over a few of the bumps the staff have been encountering. The galbi was amazing but the night was far from over. As we're walking out the restaurant, there's a few quirky things in the foyer. One is a free coffee machine where you press a button, a cup comes out of the machine and a nice latte is poured for you. How ... read more

Hello again! We had today (Friday) and we have Monday off to make one amazing 4-day long weekend!!! It is wonderful to be celebrating Korean holidays, Canadian holidays and pro-D days. We have no big plans as school is getting a bit busier and it's nice to get ahead on the planning a bit. We are planning on heading out tomorrow though and possibly visiting a place called Yongsan - it's basically an electronic- lovers heaven with over 2000 stores within 10 city blocks of electronics... Those of you who know Mike are probably wondering why they heck I would ever let him even know about a place like that, let alone let him go there... all I can say is I have no control. And we may not have enough money to come home.... So ... read more

The trip to Jeju was so packed with entertaining events we had to break up the last couple posts. It was that good!! Amy left off by describing the encounter we had with the bidet. From that we ventured out form the hotel. The first day was somewhat disappointing in the sense that it rained for most the day so our sight-seeing was limited. We spent the day walking around watching caged seals flop about and smelling the "fresh" bottom feeders the local were selling. It wasnt till the next day that things picked up. The next day, although still raining, we decided to try a Korean submarine ride. This would not have passed ANY safety regulations in any other country but for some reason the Koreans decided to get together and build a steel barrel ... read more