Hombre(w) Winter Warmer Ale

on Dec 28, 2010 | 0 comments

Winter is in fully swing out here in Korea. On the way to work today there was quite a nice pack of snow on the ground. For the hours I spend hibernating in my shoebox after work, I now have a box of new beer to drink, specifically made for the winter season. Ryan and I brewed what we have called a “Winter Warmer Ale.”  Winter warmers are traditionally...

DMZ Tour, Part 3: Joint Security Area

on Oct 7, 2010 | 2 comments

A few ago weeks my parents came to Korea (before we went to Shanghai). I took them on a tour of the DMZ very similar to the one I went on with my school. About two-thirds of the DMZ tour went to the places I wrote about in my previous two blog posts. The tour I took with my parents included the highly-volatile area known as the Joint Security Area (JSA). The JSA...

‘Seoul Ascending’ Analysis

on Sep 29, 2010 | 0 comments

Yesterday my friend Coleman told me about a New York Times Style Magazine piece about Seoul (and South Korea as a whole). It’s a fairly good read for a handful of quotes and cultural anecdotes that are unmistakably Korean. On urban form, architecture and culture from the artcle: If “the Miracle on the Han” is a tribute to the rise of South Korea (whose gross...

Black Out Korea

on Aug 10, 2010 | 0 comments

This is not an uncommon sight in Korea. Pictured above, a man in a business suit is seen passed out drunk in a parking garage. Sometimes on the way to work  I will see people like this. One website, called Black Out Korea,  specializes in hosting a myriad of user-submitted photos of locals passed out. They range from subways to restaurants and anywhere in between....

DMZ Tour, Part 2: Dorasan Station

on Aug 3, 2010 | 2 comments

This is the second of two entries on my trip to the Korean DMZ. Click here for the first. Dorasan, Part 2 After going to the Dorasan Observatory we made our last stop in the Paju area. Our bus rolled down the hill to the Inter-Korean Travel and Transport Area, where the main road that links the two Koreas together sits. Cars were parked near the checkpoint and many...