The Independent Foreigner

There comes a point in a prolonged vacation where you simply begin to feel like a stowaway in someone else's culture. Where you recogni...

I have accomplished three goals. I got a mirror in my room (thanks for leaving, Chinese chick!). Okay, that's not really a goal, but i...

Winter camp is over and was one of the most enjoyable/rewarding experiences I've had in Korea. After struggles with immigration over me...

Connection: Friend's new girlfriend's younger brother's friend. It doesn't get much further. I know married couples with a...

[Me hanging out my window the morning after the night of the second snow, just a few days after new years] For those of you who I didn'...

This time the connection was a classmate's friend's cousin. I swear it is remarkable how these people just fall into your lap. Wedn...

Sound like the worst excuse I ever made up? Well it is fact, my friends. Fact. I was at breakfast on Thursday morning. The landlady serve...

Ah, it's good to hear it. I'm doing fine, thanks for asking. This week is finals "week." I put week in quotations becaus...

So when our Korean teacher informed the class last week of a tour for foreigners, we assumed that a)it was for foreigners, b)it was expensiv...

Recently I came into the knowledge that myself and a friend from my Korean language class have all day Thursday off until four o'clock....

Well, it's come and gone so quickly so far. Three months since the big flight o'er the sea. There are things that I miss, and thin...

How have I been missing this for all these months! More than three months in Korea now and I have never seen this food! (You think you...

Though it was a little premature, we had flurries last week after an unseasonally cold, rainy, and miserable day. Finally, all the arm in a...

It seems no matter how hard you try, no matter how many times you swear up, even if you resort to swearing down, the thing you avoid latches...

Well, I have a job and a work permit in Korea. Hooray! I signed my first contract yesterday to teach at Camp Eng-Land for five weeks in Jan...

Since the move into the HaSook, there has been a shift in my social life. I have been much nearer to the school, so I've had more time ...

So again I found myself at the GrandMart, this time with a friend to buy the same dirt cheap comforter. Although it was very easy the secon...

I'm doing fine in my HaSook, sleeping on a bed that's a little too short, waking up and killing 5 mosquitoes which have gorged thems...

Well, I'm moved in safe and sound and all is well. My new home is cozy, friendly, close, and (best of all) cheap. I have found the atm...

No, I'm not talking about peace on a divided peninsula. It's much more trivial than that. No, I don't mean Madonna's caree...