The Independent Foreigner

The YonGo Jeon adventure finally drew to an epic close on Saturday. Going into the day we only had to come out victorious from one of the t...

Today was the first day of games between Yonsei and Korea. The event started with speeches from the respective school presidents, the mayor...

Today was the opening ceremony of the epic 연고전, or Yonsei-Korea Festival. Over the course of Friday and Saturday five different sports matc...

Keep away from those with weak constitutions, and no I don't mean Iraqis. This is a little bit strange to say the least. I have been r...

It's happened. I have been toeing the line with it ever since high school. I swore it would never be me, that I'd seen too much of...

My first examinations begin this week. Actually they're as much examinations as Paris Hilton is a good singer. I have a vocab quiz in ...

When I first got here I thought to myself This isn't so bad at all. There are so many things that are exactly the same. But I have to...

Today is September the 13th, simultaneously marking my one month anniversery of the end of my journey to Korea and my younger brother's ...

I bought books for my class. Some of you may wonder why I stopped to do air quotes while I typed the word books, and the reason is simple. ...

Imagine a pig's face. Maybe you've seen the episode of Mythbuster's where they test the "catching a bullet in the mouth...

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...