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‘When Two Tribes Go To War, One is All That You Can Score’
Frankie Says Relax, Don't Fight Living in Seoul as an expat, you quickly forget that just a few miles up the road there is the most fortified border in the world. You’re reminded every once in a while...
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Haebangchon: Let the Good Times Roll
HBC Fest Rocks While Seoul is a huge place, with some 13 million people or so, at times as an expat it can seem very very small. If you find yourself hanging out in the area of Seoul known as...
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Olde Stompers Rock Spot: A Postmortem Review, Part I
The first time I ever stepped foot in Olde Stompers Rock Spot must have been around the end of 2006. I had just come back to Korea to begin work at a public school in Northern Seoul. It was the...
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Confucianism And You: a Tale of Two Apartments
Two Is Better Than One? Pretty much by definition, a Korean is Confucian. Confucianism is more a philosophy than a religion, but Koreans are so strict about it that it might as well be a religion. As...
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Potheads of the World, Unite (But Not in Korea)
Whatever When I was a little kid, I hated being yelled at for stuff I didn’t do. I’m still that way. The Korean government is on the warpath about pot and I am getting really annoyed that potheads are...
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Thinking of Going to Korea to Teach? (A Conversation)
Teaching Here is Fun While I’ve written before about what to think about while you’re waiting for your paperwork to go through, think of this post as even more basic than that. This is more for those...
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Teaching In Korea: The Money
Nope. Sorry. Ahhh, yes, let’s address head on the issue of money as a teacher in South Korea. As I have written elsewhere, you usually make about $24,000 a year as an English teacher in South Korea....
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We Need To Talk About ‘We Need Surgery’
This post is in no way supposed to be unbiased. I love this band, and you should too. They rock! Way back when, Seoul’s expat music scene was amazing. This was back in about 2006-2007 and I was running...
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Jisan Valley Rocking
Rock and roll. If a registered alien in Korea is not careful rock and roll can become alien to them. The country is inundated with vulgar K-pop. It is even being exported out of the country. It is...
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New Year and New Plan for Asia Pundits
Happy New Year to all our readers and writers! Dear loyal Asia Pundits readers and writers, Happy New Year 2013! Thank you for all the support you’ve given us over the past year! We are pleased to...
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