The next stop on our tour was to the Jeonju Film Studios. This was one of the stops I was most excited about. I've never been to a film studio or closed set before and was eager to see a production taking place. Unfortunately there was no shooting taking place during our visit but it would still give me a good insight into how a production is made. The studios were very easy to drive into and surprisingly did not have any gates or security checkpoint. The facili...

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...

So I get a random email from the current teacher at the school I have been placed with. He says its in Chilgok which is about 30 mins by bus from Daegu. Epik (the govt program i'm on) tells us nothing. So I google map it and do some research on the internet. Regardless of 30 min bus ride, Chilgok is Gyeongbuk province, not Daegu metropolitan city. I was ****** at first. I specifically said metropolitan city when it asked on the application if you want metropolita...

so i can not buy any clothes here, everything is the size of a 15 year old. all the men are 5'7 so no clothes or shoes in my size. heat is not so bad if you figure out your timings and dress coolly.also they have water dispensers in every building where you can fill your water bottle for freeclasses are a bit too much, from 9am to 530pm only with a break for lunchafter dinner we have korean language classes from 7 to 8, then korean movies from 8-10 which i've bee...