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Speaking of hagwon days, I recently found my old PDA (Palm Treo) and imported my schedule to iCal.  Most of my time has been accounted for, except for a large missing chunk from August 2007-February 2008.  This was probably the time I felt a PDA wasn’t cutting it and just stopped using it.  Then I [...]

We arrived in Kangneung a little later than expected because Readon woke up late, and we were behind schedule by about two hours. One we arrived on the East coast, we made Seorak-san our main excursion for the day. Our first stop was some temple on the way to Yangyang. As you can see, I’m [...]

The road trip to the coast was busy, but fun.  I got some good pictures and ate a lot – definitely the signs of a good trip.  I’ve chosen 100+ pictures and am ready to upload them to Flickr tomorrow.  For now, here’s the first place we stopped on our touristy road trip.

Hey, I’ll be able to make this festival before I fly out the following Monday, June 18th.  Gangneung is where I called “home” for three years.  I miss it. Gangneung Danoje June 17-24 Gangneung, Gangwon Province 033-648-3014 http://www.danojefestival.or.kr “Dano” is one of Korea’s four traditional festivals which falls on the fifth day of the fifth [...]

Last night, a 4.8 earthquake shook Gangneung.  I didn’t feel it here in Pusan, but supposedly, it could be felt around the country.  Thankfully, there was no serious damage.

Ras has been in Korea for about a week now, and spent a couple days catching up with friends in Kangneung. I received this from him today: i’m in myongdong with reardon right now, watching crazy ajumas overturning a street vendor’s table. good stuff. I hope Reardon is a little more cautious, or THIS could [...]

Korea lost to Switzerland early this morning.  Four years from now, I bet we won’t be seeing shirts with "2002 Again Corea".  Thank god.  I think what Korea did in 2002 was amazing, but replaying the same soccer games over, and over, and over again was getting old.  The party is over… boo hoo hoo.  [...]

We’re leaving soon to go downtown and watch a couple soccer games.  The Korean vs. Switzerland game is at 4am.  I hope I can last for that.

I wasn’t expecting much out of yesterday, but luckily the sun broke through, making it a mandatory beach day.  Ras, Melvin, and I arrived at Gyeongpo Beach around 11:30 am with blankets and a cooler in hand.  Melvin was telling us that last week, the Family Mart lady was asking where his friends were.  We’ve [...]