The Independent Foreigner

Wednesday after my Korean class ended I got on the subway going the opposite direction. I wasn't lost (for once), nor was I just explor...

So here in the first shot is totally hip me, using a camera, cell phone, iPod, and sunglasses all at the same time. I begin every trip anyw...

This is me after my first Modern History Class: I'm keeping it. I wasn't the only one who walked in there skeptical. There were sev...

More in the style of Canada of all places, classes here at Yonsei are three hours long for one day a week. Just thought I'd throw that ...

So, for the many who have been asking, classes start for me tomorrow. Expect full details sometime next week. Other than that, I've bee...

Thanks for the post and for the compliment. I didn't know that I was competing for the Most Entertaining Thing I Do on the Internet aw...

I'm getting quite a bit of mileage out of the way people cook here, but it's so different that it causes a great many of the cultura...

This one has been slowly developing like the termite larvae in your home's foundation. When I left the states I had some sense of what ...

The seasons here are very defined and balanced. Right now it's still in the nineties and very muggy, just like Georgia. I'm already ...

As you may or may not be aware, Koreans always always always take their shoes off before entering a home or any restaurant that doesn't...

For those of you who've never been a white man on the streets of Asia, let me tell you all about it. Imagine being a bearded lady in the...

Wait a minute, they're not Korean.... Anything you've ever wondered about the far east? Any particular story you thought you'd...

Korea is famous all over the world for it's large population of Christians. More than half of the nation that professes any sort of rel...

So, I came home from the IYC welcome party on Thursday night at almost exactly midnight, which is pretty good timing considering the subways...

It was the night of the tuna fish jamboree, and all of Lake Wobegon had gathered at the old sawmill to taste the Dolores' famous tuna fi...

Where is the name derived from? The last two letters are definitely from 'ham,' though I'm not sure who made the correlation be...

Jet lag has been a tough nut to crack for me. I wake up automatically at six or seven in the morning. That would be fine and dandy if I co...

Let’s talk about television. One certainly can’t learn all there is to know about a culture just through watching their TV, of course. Wha...

Tonight YongHee and I treated ourselves to a pre-fall semester viewing of the hottest Asian blockbuster, 괴물 (The Monster). It being an acti...

We have a dish washer. That, however, is not the odd part. The odd part is that we never close the dishwasher. Umma washes all the dishes by...