I was just told today that a very popular teacher had died last nite. Him and his friend were fishing at nite. He ended up under water and was trapped under ice. They have recovered his body. This is the extent of what I have been told. He was very popular with the students and I named him the K-Pop teacher. He was a korean language teacher, but young in his 20s, and always dressed in fashionable K-Pop singer style clothes and had a similar style haircut. School ...

Here we go again... another milestone reached! This is just for the main korean blog. The other side trips have their own blogs now with their own seperate stats. Here are more detailed blog stats http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-e ntries/londone7/1/1319025016/tpod.html Visit My Page on Facebook Departures1

Fellow blogger ChrisInSouthKorea asked for my input in doing a comparison of Seoul vs Daegu and Busan. Here is his write up albeit with all my typos from the personal messages I sent him. http://www.travelwireasia.com/2511/ques tion-from-a-reader-seoul-vs-busan-vs-da egu/ http://networkedblogs.com/sOx6W He also forgot to mention Marilyn Munroe's visit to Daegu, something neither Seoul nor Busan can boast to my knowledge! Visit My Page on Facebook Departures1

Foreigners be warned.. if you plan on bringing "the aids virus" to korea, gambling, molesting children or doing drugs, there is a group of koreans out to stop you and protect the nation http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31 /world/la-fg-korea-english31-2010jan31 Their activities will include - monitoring your internet activities to track personal data and home addresses - following you home and staking out your apartment - taking notes on your contacts and habi...

School is now closed until after the Mar 1 national holiday. The first week of january we have a five day winter camp. We have 4 classes in the morning lasting until 12.30. Officially we have to then stay in an empty school till 4.20 but I have been going home after lunch. There are two visiting english teachers from two other schools. One is British and one South African, to divide the four classes between the 60 students. In the past camp was 10 days long, whic...