Last Saturday was my third, and final, field trip with the academy. As with last winter, we again decided to go to Gyeongju Museum, and even though most of the teachers and students had been before, we’re all fairly happy to go on another visit. The other 2 sister academies weren’t going this year, for [...]

We made another early start to see two very interesting sites in Jeju, the lava tubes of Manjanggul 만장 and the Gimnyeong Maze 김녕미로공원, which is along the way. Usually when I get up very early in the morning my stomach feels sore, like bad car sickness, and it was no different this day except [...]

Day two, and our big goal for the day was to climb Mount Halla 할라산국립공원 in the centre of the island. We start early in the morning and headed straight for the bus terminal catching a local bus to the Eorimok trail, a relatively easy 4.7km hike to one of the peaks around the mountain [...]

We finally made it back to Daegu after spending our long New Years weekend on Jeju-do (Jeju Island). I’m glad to say we had an awesome trip, seeing in most of the sights we had planned to see, and a few additional ones. This was in spite of me coming down with a bad bug [...]

Last weekend we took Em’s friend from Beijing to Seoul for a bit of shopping and sightseeing. We didn’t have any great plans other than visiting Dongdaemun for a bit of late night shopping on Saturday night, and visiting Gyeongbukgung, a palace in Seoul. I won’t go on too much about the trip but I [...]

So Halloween has come and gone and all the preparation time we spend on it certainly paid off as both us, the teachers, and the students, had an awesome day. Last Thursday we spent about 3 hours decorating both Miranda’s and my room, as well as the hallway between the classes. The scare room took [...]

What a really nice weekend we had. On Saturday Em and I headed over to Lotte department stores for a bit of a look around. Em managed to buy something quite nice there, but I won’t tell you what it is until Wednesday, because it’s a surprise! In fact, even I don’t know about it, [...]

On Sunday, Em and I decided to travel out of the city and head into Gyongsang country, more precisely around Gyeongju. Our destination, Tongdosa Temple (통도사) recommended by Mark from Daejeon. Not exactly sure how to get there, one of the Korean teachers, Brenda, took it upon herself to find out for me (after asking [...]

So, as promised, some photos from the weekend away with Em at the beach. One of the biggest problems with going to the beach here in Korea, especially during the summer vacation period, is the sheer number of people you have to ‘share’ the beach with. Having gone to Haeundae beach in Busan previously in [...]

Here’s a few snap from my parents trip to Korea over the last 2 weeks. As I mentioned before in my past post, the descriptions will be at a minimum, as I’m sure most of you really aren’t that interested in the trip. Just a few shot of us up in Seoul catching up with [...]