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Entries from July 2008

Life in Bundang

July 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments

It’s hard to believe we’ve already been out in Korea for almost five months. Sometimes it feels like just the other day our Director was picking us up at the airport after a 12 hour flight out of San Francisco, then other days it feels like we’ve been out here for years already. It’s fair […]

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Tags: Korea · Rant · Travel

Korean Culture Tips for Enjoyment of Korea to Make Happiness of Foriegner in Korea

July 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Some of the best cultural tips on how to adjust to living in Korea as a westerner come from GEPIK’s own website. For those that don’t know, GEPIK employees thousands of English Teachers and is sort of like the Los Angeles Unified School District, a New England prep school, and pre-school rolled into one. From […]

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F**k Korea!

July 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments

My first genuine “Fuck Korea” moment happened the other week.
That’s right, my first moment where I, for lack of any better description, got so frustrated with some practice, ritual, custom, and illogical cultural behavior here that I blew up like Bill O’Rielly after an hour with Al Gore and George Clooney. I got mad. Not […]

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