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How do you Sunday Funday?
TweetI've been staying in on Saturday nights to take full advantage of Sunday mornings and it's been paying off. The past couple of Sundays have been pretty spectacular. Great friends, great food,...
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A Defense of the Expat Bubble
Tweet Expat bubble is a phrase that usually has negative connotations; whenever we hear it, it’s usually to exhort us to burst, escape, or avoid it, or to invite us to disparage those who luxuriate in...
View ArticleBAM! You’ve got a sweet forum
TweetThere’s nothing sweeter than a fresh new forum, ready to welcome your community. A Vanilla Forum has all the bits and pieces you need to build an awesome discussion platform customized to your...
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Introducing the KakaoTalk Friends
TweetFew things have evolved as much as text messaging within the past couple of years. While cell phones used to be devices primarily for calling others (and occasionally using the handy built-in...
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The FBI customer support sucks!
TweetBefore applying to teach ESL in South Korea, whenever I thought of the FBI (which was not often) I would free associate it with things like American’s Most Wanted, bad-ass secret agents and secret...
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Date a Man Who Travels
Date a Man Who Travels TweetDate a Man who travelsThey are easily missed in the bustling, dusting, city centers of the world for they are usually camouflaged in local garb against the backdrop of...
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Download the audio content for “Korean Made Simple” for free!
TweetThose of you who backed the original Kickstarter campaign for “Korean Made Simple” last year in February for the first book (and also the campaign for the sequel) know that one of my original...
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This little spot in #hwamyeong looks so magical! Im dying to...
TweetThis little spot in #hwamyeong looks so magical! Im dying to know what it is…from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1ytEqIWvia IFTTT
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Reading List: Homosexuality in the News in 50s and 60s Korea
TweetChingusai has posted a great newsletter on homosexuality in Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, a period where little has been written in English on same-sex attraction in Korea. The article is divided...
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Why Study Korean with K-Pop?
TweetWhether or not you’ve been learning Korean for long, you’ve undoubtedly been exposed to the K-Pop (Korean Pop Music) phenomenon. K-Pop is what Korea is perhaps best known in the Western world...
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Missionary Imposition
Missionary Imposition TweetThe first Koreans I met were in Xi’an, China. They were missionaries and so was I. We had bubble tea on a university street on a hot evening and talked about miracles. Mean...
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Date a Man Who Travels
Date a Man Who Travels TweetDate a Man who travelsThey are easily missed in the bustling, dusting, city centers of the world for they are usually camouflaged in local garb against the backdrop of...
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Drama Queen- Life without Lifey
Tweet"Mom! I think you are in love with the Lifey", My son scolds me. "Appa! I think she loves Lifey more than she loves all of us put together!", lassoing my husband into the argument. He nods from...
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Wax and Relax at Catchup Waxing
TweetSpring is one of my favorite times of the year here in Korea, but sadly, it's short lived. Soon enough, summer will be here which means bikinis, beaches and bright sun... all of which can cause...
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A How-To Guide for Korean Texting
TweetHave you noticed that your speaking, listening, reading, and writing are all getting better, and then suddenly in a text from a Korean friend you understand nearly nothing of what they’ve said?...
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SNOB! (or Discriminate?)
TweetFirst, a myth to bust: being judgmental or discriminate does not equate with being snobbish. Snobs “turn their nose up” at you based on material superficialities and perceived behavioral nuances...
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Too hilarious not to share
TweetSo, I asked one of my ESL students to keep a diary every day to help him practice his English. I told him he could email me the diaries, if he wanted to, and I will correct them the same day. The...
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Weekly Featured Events - April 17~23, 2015
Weekly Featured Events - April 17~23, 2015 TweetComing Up This Weekend & Beyond Foreign Culture MarketBusan KOTESOL Symposium2nd Critical MassTipsy Talk, FlowerFestHaHa HoleCraft Beer FestMira...
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Learn Korean Ep. 71: “Pretend to Do”
TweetKeykat gets lost on the subway again. Maybe it was my fault, but I expected she’d be able to read the signs better. Who’s to blame me for that?This week we have a new episode in the “Learn Korean”...
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