For my southeast asia trip I had to goto Seoul Incheon Airport instead of Busan airport closeby. Because I was cashing in air miles they way they configured the booking was from Seoul and wouldnt let me choose Busan even though there were direct flights on Star Alliance member Asiana from Busan. I also failed to realize that because of the lunar/chinese new year four day holiday this was the busiest travel period. All the cheaper slow trains to Seoul at 20,000w (...

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...