It’s a year today. One year since the fighting and shouting and door-slamming stopped. One year since I sat in a bus station in Estonia, my possessions spilling out from a collection of tattered bags at my feet. One year since I blindly climbed on to the night bus to Latvia with my heart broken [...]
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So, having spent a day in the sun on Saturday, we headed back to Seoul station to find that we had just missed the last train home. It was for this reason that we ended up in a jimjilbang – my first experience of this famous part of Korean culture. Jimjilbangs are everywhere, but I’d [...]
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An unexpected consequence of coming to live in Korea has been the opportunity to learn about and experience cultures other than Korea’s. By far the most interesting of these to me so far has been South Africa, having had virtually no information about that country until recently. But then I moved to Korea, started working [...]
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The latest incident in my “I’m allergic to the country that I so love living in” saga has been eye problems, starting with an impressively ugly burst blood vessel in my right eye last week. Although it healed very quickly, my eye has been scratchy and sore ever since, staying shut in the morning until [...]
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Someone on Facebook recently asked the question: “In which ways have you been Koreanised?”. After a bit of thought (and some inspiration from the replies he got), I came up with these Koreanisations – things that are now natural to me but which I know might seem strange if I were to continue with them [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
