I've stayed in a hanok home before in Seoul's Bukchon hanok village and was looking forward to the chance to stay in another traditional home. Hanok Homes are traditional raised wood houses with clay tile roofs. They are built in clusters and narrow alleys and always make for scenic shots of their roof tiles. The first home I stayed in at Bukchon you can call a house as it was small complex. However, this can time the home can be considered a 'villa' as it was a ...

This weekend I was invited on a weekend trip again by TheKoreaBlog with a group of other bloggers from Korea and Overseas. Originally the planned destination was going to be Ulleongdo and Dokdo Islands which is currently making headlines due to Japanese claims to the island. After lots of back and forth trying to co-ordinate the schedule with the other invited guests (who mostly weren't happy about the choice of Dokdo for political reasons) the organizers decide...

Another problem I was having with my trip was figuring out my transportation. Last time I had gone for five days I traveled from Tokyo to Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Kobe, so bought a 7 day Japan Rail pass for $350. This time I would only be staying on the southern island of Kyushu. A full JR 7 Day pass was not worth it. There is a JR East past that covers the north half of the country East of Tokyo but not for the western half in the south. A friend told me about th...

At the new school I had heard there was "a bed" that teachers could use. I've walked around the whole school and never saw anywhere with a bed. They said there was one for the women and one for the men. Curious, I asked where was this men teachers room? After lunch I asked one of the teachers to show me where this room was. She walked me over from the cafeteria on the ground floor to a room near the admin offices I hadnt noticed before. I was quite surprised by ...

Korea and Daegu are being hit by yet another typhoon. This is different from last years typhoon season where Daegu was hardly touched and Seoul got pounded for three months straight. A week and a half ago was Typhoon Bolavan and today it was the turn of Typhoon Sanba Typhoon Bolavan was a non event in Daegu although students were told they can come in late at 10am. People in the path of the typhoon in other parts of Korea had offices and schools closed completely...