Bye Bye Wisconsin! I am leaving for Seoul on Sunday, very early morning. So this means I only have 3 full days left! I have started to pack, but pretty soon after I started I realized I had a lot of laundry to do. Or rather, I had a lot of laundry and ironing for my mom to do haha. Better take advantage of free laundry while I can. I have also made sure I had all of my toiletries, just in case, especially since my suitcase had room. So I packed some shampoo, raz...

Hi Everyone! I am about to leave for Seoul. I will be in Seoul in 10 days!!! Wow, seems like very recently I was planning all of the arrangments and applying for the program. I got my passport with the Korean Visa yesterday, so I can stay in Korea until August 2012. I hope to stay over winter break and maybe volunteer/intern somewhere. I also got housing, which I have some tips for. My housing was a little complicated because I did not apply for the KU dorms. ...

Hi everybody! I finally got my acceptance package in the mail Friday. So that means I was ready to apply for the D-2 student visa. The closest place for me to appy was in Chicago at the Korean Consulate, website:http://usa-chicago.mofat.go.kr/eng/am/usa-chicago/consular/visas/index.jsp. All I needed to do was send my passport, passport copy, certificate of enrollment (this was what I needed from the acceptance package), passport picture, a money order of $45, a ...

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Housing I am leaving for Seoul in exactly 1 month. This time last year I had chosen South Korea as my destination and was looking at the requirements and now I am here, ready to leave. I will be applying for my visa sometime in the next week, once my acceptance package gets here! Housing in the Korea University dorms is full, so I am looking into off-campus housing. There are many options, most of them are sort of a dorm like residence. There are many rooms on...