Cross-Cultural Experience

Finally, we got to eat some Korean food today. While we had planned to try out Korean food in the last several months at Kimchi Korean Restaurant in State College, PA, we never made it. Today was our first real experience with Korean food. Because we tasted some bad Kimchi at a Chinese restaurant in … Read more

In an environment where so much is new, there’s a lot of stuff to process. Each morning, I’ve been waking up very early (Korea Time), thinking about our experience here. After a while, I finally get up and write. We’ve been sharing some observations and impressions about the culture here, including our challenges with the … Read more

Earlier, I wrote about some of our first impressions of the culture here in Seoul. Here are a couple more … Seoul is a safe city. Seoul, with its population of 10.3 million people, is the 5th largest city in the world. Even so, it has a very low crime rate. AsainInfo.com says, “Seoul is … Read more

Today we ventured out a bit and visited the Korean Folk Village in Suwon. To get there, we had to catch a bus, which meant figuring out how Seoul’s bus transportation system works. The trick was finding the right bus stop and getting on the right bus. The directions we found online stated … From … Read more

Yesterday, when we first ventured out onto the streets of Seoul, there were not too many people on the sidewalks, due to the Lunar New Year holiday. Many shops and businesses were closed, which made eating a bit of a challenge! 😯 We went for a walk to find breakfast and to get something to … Read more

Our first post from Korea marked the first 30 Hours of our trip to Korea, from the time we got up at home till the time we arrived in our room at the guest house. So, after our first 30 hours in Seoul, here are some of my first impressions … Seoul is a modern … Read more

We’re in Korea! In fact, we’ve just finished a marathon day, so the following thumbnail sketch may not be as good as it could be. This long post is really a series of short posts in one. 🙂 State College → Detroit On Tuesday morning, we got up at 2:45 (Eastern Time) on about 3 … Read more

Our itinerary is finally coming together. We will fly to Korea on Tuesday (2/5) and will return on Thursday of the following week (2/14). That’s a day earlier than we were planning to go, but due to the holidays, we were not able to book a flight on 2/6 — we either had to go … Read more