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Uijeongbu's New Culture Street
My fingers are feeling better compared to yesterday and I still want to write about the changes to downtown Uijeongbu's Jungangno (중앙로) but I have no idea where to begin. Back in May the city ruled the street off-limits to cars, and I made a brief reference to construction going on back in August. While remodeling work conducted at Gwanghwamun ( Read more... ) -
손가락 아프다 *
Never put off for today what you could have done yesterday. Tonight is when I had planned to write about the upcoming celebrations in Uijeongbu that will mark the official opening of 'Culture Street' - including some photos I've taken since this past summer - but during my last class of the day a student slammed the classroom door on my fingers ( Read more... ) -
Shame and Scandal in the Family ♫
Some time near the beginning of autumn we had one of our teachers take a day off due to the death of her grandfather. This came on short notice - perhaps unsurprisingly - and resulted in everyone scrambling to work out a schedule on how best to cover her classes. I mean ... it's not like you actually want something like that to happen, and ( Read more... ) -
Haenggung Taeguk
As mentioned in my previous entry, here are the taeguk featured on the front entrance to Haenggung Palace. As with the photo of Paldalmun they were taken on my point-and-shoot without using a tripod. I'm still not sure how they came out as good as they did.
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Paldalmun and a Tale of Two Taeguks
I mentioned the Hwaseong Culture Festival at the start of last month but didn't write anything about the subject after that. I did make it to the second day of the festival, though a mix-up on the bus meant that I ended up at a mountain outside of town rather than attending the event that I had most wanted to see ( Read more... ) -
The Beginning of December
It's some time after four o'clock in the morning and I'm listening to unbelievably beautiful music through headphones in my apartment. In the distance it's just possible to make out the sound of a temple bell (?) being rung to call monks from their slumber. Sometimes it's easy to forget that I live in a suburb of the world's second-largest ( Read more... ) -
Taepyeongmu
The end of October saw a reenactment of King Gojong's enthronement as head of the Korean Empire at Unhyeongung in Jongno-gu, Seoul that was an interesting experience to attend. Admission fees were waived on account of the special event, though the light rain that afternoon seemed to keep many people from attending. It was also a little ( Read more... ) -
The Korean Tourism Organization is hiring?
While checking out the main page for the Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) I came across a notice that the KTO is currently looking for a native English speaker to serve as an 'English Advisor on the Overseas Marketing Department'. This looks like a very interesting opportunity to be involved in the process of developing and implementing tourism ( Read more... ) -
Sanggang and Solar Terms in Korea
Once students reach a high enough level at our academy we have them start keeping an English journal/diary. Students are allowed to write about any topic they want. Some focus on what they did over the weekend while others pick a random subject to discuss in their notebook. I have twins in one of my classes - a brother and sister - who are ( Read more... )
