As I sit here basking in the afterglow of my last final’s completion, I wonder what else there is for me to talk about that I’ve seen and done here in Korea. Blog-acceptable topics, meaning not too opinionated on sensitive things. But I like being opinionated. So I thought, ‘Fashion. Fashion is something …
Jen and I woke up on the morning of our last day in Busan feeling rather unrested, once again due to temperature issues. We were either too dumb to figure out the AC unit or the remote was broken, because its two settings were off and arctic ice storm. Dang it all. On top of …
Full of our canned coffee and smoked eggs, Jen and I wandered outside to catch our first glimpse of Busan in the daylight. The two big things on our list for the second day was going to a beach (any beach) and going to the Aquarium, but since we were in a resort area we …
With (as of the second I’m writing this sentence) a little over seven days left in Korea, I am happy to say that I will leave with no regrets in the tourism sector. Before I arrived in Korea, I did no research at all into what attractions could be found in the country, and as …
As someone who loves designer fashion, of course I notice when there’s a plethora of designer items everywhere. The first thing I wonder, as does anyone who cares about name brands, concerns the validity of the object in question. You see enough of them and then the paranoia really starts to set in: Is that …
One day, I woke up and remembered that I hadn’t gone to Hwaseong Fortress. This is sad, because it’s in Suwon, so all I have to do to get there is hop on a bus for a dollar and be deposited right outside the fortress’s south gate. It’s so close to Ajou that there are …
Warning: this post is silly and full of silly things. After seeing so many travel blog posts about flirting in other countries, I had to do one of my own. I have some material, both from my own experiences and hearing about other people’s adventures. So basically, before I came to South Korea, I had …
The Joint Security Area was by far the most intense part of the trip. This area is near-impossible for South Koreans to get to, because not only does it sit directly on the demarcation line, it goes across. If you’ve heard of a building in the DMZ that has half in North Korea and half …
One more DMZ post to go! Truth be told, they’re kind of exhausting, but I’m dedicated to being overly detailed, so here I am trapped in this vicious cycle of blagging. I come to the computer and it sits there on my lap, abiotic and yet expectant, knowing as well as I that I will …
Dorasan Train Station is one of the creepiest train stations on earth, hands down. I don’t even have to visit other train stations to know. It’s that creepy. Like I said at the end of the previous post, during the tour I felt this strange vibe from everyone in charge of us, from the tour …
