The school term ended July 15th so the last two weeks of July is summer camp. As my contract is up for renewal August and I have chosen to renew, in addition to my 8 summer vacation days, I get an additional 10 days for renewing. Add to this the August 15 public holiday I now have 19 vacation days. This is overlapping into summer camp so I am only able to use 15 days and will have to carry over three vacation days to the winter holidays.During winter camp I had t...

This is shocking considering there is NO RAIN in Daegu!!Seoul has been getting hammered by massive storms since the end of June so the ground is completely saturated. The rain path comes from the China Sea into the central korean peninsula (Seoul), then into North Korea, so Daegu in the south only gets passing drizzle at best. We are lucky! The death toll is now 38 since the article was written.See the Rainfall Map - Daegu is in the lighter area------------------...

This Sunday there was a kickball tournament at the US Army Base Camp Walker and a rare chance for off base personnel to get on base. There were going to be eight military teams vs eight civilian teams. A group of chilgok teachers were looking for extra players on their team so I joined to be part of the tournament, see the base from the inside, and meet some new people.I had tried to goto Camp Walker last december, as I heard there were many english speaking busi...

Saturday went to another free museum, right downtown where I always hang out, that I had no idea about. The Daegu Modern History Museum is a 3 story brick building with no windows, so its easy to confuse it with a power utility building hiding lots of machinery. Turns out its an interesting two story building housing photos and artefacts from Daegu's history from the early half of the 20th century.As you enter the interior is a large hall with period architecture...

This friday I had no classes and was told I didnt have to come in, so used the time to visit some free museums that are closed on weekends, so this was one of the rare chances to visit. The first one, Kyunpook National University Museum, has a somewhat misleading name.It is named after the province north of daegu, Gyeonbuk. But for some reason the english translation has been recorded as Kyunpook which makes for some confusing pronounciations when trying to expla...