Dance on the beach with the woman in the red dress in Jack Vettriano’s Singing Butler. Climb a tall bamboo with a panda bear. Ride a bicycle through the clouds. Or ride a unicorn through the blue waves. This is just a sampling of the cheeky fun available at Seoul’s Trickeye Museum, a place where art and…
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Ready For Contact-5 Ways To Prepare Yourself for Korea’s Dangerous Roads
By Whit Altizer This morning, as I do every morning, I rode my bicycle to school. I was a little later than usual so I had to battle the between-classes-traffic that I usually try to avoid. Cars, bikes, buses and pedestrians all hurry to make up for lost time spent this morning drinking coffee, missing a…
Explore Korea by bike… with KIDS!
By Lindsay Nash Thanksgiving usually means sitting around a table and stuffing yourself with turkey and all the fixings. In Korea, on their Thanksgiving known as Chuseok, most Koreans are doing the same. Well, if you substitute the turkey for songpyeon and the dry red wine for clear strong soju. But we’re expats here in South…
Yeosu
By Whit Altizer Yeosu has long been a favorite destination for us, but it had been years since we last traveled there. In the old days we would hop on a train from Seogwangju Station down the street from our house and ride to Yeosu (about 50 minutes longer than by bus, but worth it)….
Mokpo
By Whit Altizer We spent the first week in August traveling around our old home province, Jeollanamdo. This is the first of several blogs about our second “Korea Without a Care” trip. The Mokpo that I know well is a very small part of the city. But it must be the most potent pocket of…
