Category: In Korea (Page 18 of 25)

Immigration Four

2014/01/23 / Nic / 9 Comments

Korea, like many other Asian countries, has a superstition about 4 because it sounds similar to the word for death (in Sino-Korean).

Of course tetraphobia is not the only thing needed for living in Korea. I’ve been thinking about how grateful I am that I visited Korea many times before moving here, because it has made the transition a lot easier. If I had never been to Korea before, I would be very overwhelmed. Even more so because we are in a rural area and not a city. I’m sure there will be hard times ahead though.

My visa was extended easily enough thankfully. The visa system here is different to the Australian system. I came to Korea with a 3 month partner visa which has now been extended to 1 year. We just extend again when we need to.

No Warm Hat

2014/01/22 / Nic / 13 Comments

Now who is the stubborn idiot?! Me!!

I think I was tricked the first day we arrived in Korea because it wasn’t tooo cold so I thought “I can handle this!”

Then it got a lot colder. Okay, warmth over fashion!

No Winter Coat

2014/01/21 / Nic / 15 Comments

You may have noticed my husband has a stubborn streak… well it came out when we arrived in Korea. It was about 5 degrees Celsius when we landed and it got colder and colder. However, he refused to wear anything other than jeans and a tshirt until we arrived at his parents’ house at night! So he travelled from Busan to Jinju to his home town in short sleeves! I’m sure it was below 0 by the time we arrived but he wanted to prove that he could do it.

In The Navy

2013/09/20 / Nic / 24 Comments

He told me this story because of the Titanic thing the other day. There are a lot of really boring times when doing military service so they like to act out scenes from movies to pass the time. Of course it made sense to do Titanic scenes because they were on a ship! The poor guys who were new were bossed around by those in a higher position and made to do things like this!

Jongmyo Daeje

2013/09/16 / Nic / 0 Comments

This is from earlier in the year but we only just got around to editing. We went to JongMyo Daeje. You can learn more about it here or here.

(This was when EBS was filming us too).

(Also, I get excited about free stuff).

Winter Olympics

2013/09/09 / Nic / 17 Comments

I googled it and…. yeah not many! We do much better at the Summer Olympics.

Korea is a similar time zone to Australia so that is good for our athletes. Japan has just been announced as the host to the 2020 Summer Olympics which is also good for Australian athletes because of the similar time zone and we are used to competing in Asia.

What do you think about Japan winning this bid?

Korean Convenience Stores

2013/08/27 / Nic / 16 Comments

Korean convenience stores are really good. So much better than overpriced Australian ones with not much range and that mainly sell junk food. Convenience stores in Australia are the last resort because you can’t find a supermarket, and you wonder why you are paying $5 for a bottle of water. Korean ones offer so much more and it’s so much cheaper. AND they are everywhere, so they are actually very convenient (not like Australian ones).

And they have delicious delicious banana milk. While we can get most Korean products in Australia, that banana milk is not sold here because it can’t be shipped here. I think because of the foil lid. It makes me sad.

This is the video he was watching: