This lunchtime I walked around the UN Park with Daehyeon, and on returning back home encountered the most brazen bit of racism in all my seven years of living in Korea ( Read more... )

Last Sunday night I met friends at HQ Bar for their 'Happy Pup-Mas' event, a fundraiser for Red Collar Rescue. It's an organisation run by Christy, an American who saves dogs from the kill shelters and finds new homes for them in Busan. It was a naturally dog friendly event, with several in attendance. It also featured a pub quiz, at which I did ( Read more... )

아침 일찍 산에서 산책을 했어요
Early this morning I went for a walk on the mountain.


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I presume you're all aware of the latest news to come from South Korea i.e. our presidents completely unexpected and incredibly short lived declaration of martial law on Tuesday night. Time for my two cents ( Read more... )

지금 날씨가 추워요
Now the weather is cold.
서울에서 눈이 많이 와요
In Seoul it is snowing.
그런데 부산에서 눈이 안 와요
But it is not snowing in Busan.
지금 감기에 걸렸어요
Now, I've caught a cold.
저는 기침을 많이 해요
I am coughing a lot.

오늘은 한국어를 공부했어요. 그래서 한국어 일기 썼어요.
Today I studied Korean. So I wrote a Korean journal entry.
오후에 아내 와 조카 와 개 유엔 공원에서 산책을 했어요.
This afternoon I walked in the UN Park with my wife, nephew and dog.
저녁에 친구들 만났어요. 그래서 불꽃 축제를 봤어요. 불꽃은 아주 예퍼요
This evening I met friends. We watched the firework festival. It was very pretty.


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The heat and humidity of summer finally ended with the torrential downpour we had last weekend. Now we're into what I'm terming Korea's Goldilocks season, those precious couple of months when the weather is just right before we head once again into a bitterly cold winter ( Read more... )

It rained heavily all Friday night and Saturday morning. The roads became rivers!

Last night I went to HQ Bar for the karaoke (watching, not participiating). Lots of friendly faces were there, including Olia, Jimmy, Jack and K. I got talking to a journalist who was most recently filming at a paleontoligical site in Antarctica. I'd love to ( Read more... )

We just had Chuseok, which is the big harvest festival where everyone gets time off work.

On Saturday I found a baby gecko in our bathroom and so caught and released it outside.


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