Category: Korea

My year teaching in Korea has ended. I am now back in the United States (briefly) before I head back East to look for work in Shanghai. Before

With all the unrest that’s been happening in the Middle East, more people are starting to pay attention to Al Jazeera. The news organization has had by far

If Korea couldn’t export electronics, cars, appliances and kimchi, it would probably continue to make lots of money exporting K-Pop. If you know absolutely nothing about Korean Pop

So this week is Lunar New Year, known as Chinese New Year by a helluva lot more people. Nevertheless, I’m not working. It’s been a good time unwinding.

While on Facebook a few weeks ago I got an idea from a fellow teacher to have students reenact famous movie scenes. She had her students act “Zoolander”, “Office

It’s widely known that Korean has the world’s highest rate of plastic surgery. Seeing ads on subway for breast augmentation using emoticons is far from uncommon. However, the

I don’t think Koreans really know much about In Living Color or even Homey The Clown for that matter. However, I did see a student wearing this hilarious sweatshirt a