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Time to come back to Korea?

2021/10/28 / / 0 Comments

Are you planning your Korea trip again?

Did you have to cancel your trip to Korea? Are you planning on traveling to Korea soon? My parents are looking forward to coming back to Korea maybe early next year. I hope this video is helpful when planning your trip. A big tourist attraction in this area is Gyeongbokgung Palace, which is actually a huge area to walk around. People hire hanboks to wear and walk around the palace, but all that walking is going to make you hungry.

It’s convenient to head to this street and find a restaurant to eat at. Locals also eat here and there is a big range of food that will be satisfying, especially after all that walking. Even living in Seoul, I wasn’t that aware of this food street, but now I know! One of the great things about doing these tourism videos is that we learn something too, and in this case, we got a chance to actually go out as a family.

Cherry Blossoms: Bilingual Update

2021/04/15 / / 0 Comments

A walk through the Cherry Blossoms

This video is from a few weeks ago and the cherry blossoms are no longer there, but I am glad we made the most of the short time they blossom on the trees. Yul was sad when all the blossoms had fallen. We are lucky to have many cherry blossoms trees in our area. There are places with a lot more trees that people travel to, but much easier to just take a local walk. This area was also shown in the Korean drama “The Start-up”. They filmed last year during cherry blossom season and we actually saw scenes being shot many times.

This video is also a bit of a bilingual update as you can see Yul using both English and Korean and switching easily between them.

Korean Balcony Transformation: Kid Playground! Pandemic Playground!

2020/07/20 / / 0 Comments

Our first big project in our new place!

I’m starting to come around to the idea of these types of balconies… I wasn’t much of a fan in the beginning, but as it’s monsoon season in Korea at the moment, I can see the benefits. Originally I desperately wanted real outside space and a lot of the time I had seen these enclosed balconies just become storage areas and they seemed a bit pointless. But giving the space a real purpose makes all the difference.

Of course our priority in our life is our two-year-old son, so I knew early on that this would become a play area for him. I wanted to make him a mini backyard with the things I enjoyed when I was a child: a sandpit, swimming pool and a slide.

While this pandemic goes on it’s important to have areas inside for kids to play in. While Korea has not had a lockdown and things are okay at the moment, we don’t know what the future will bring.

In our video we explain our thinking and process and show you as we get all the stuff and set it up! And of course we surprise our son!

New Seoul Apartment Tour

2020/07/20 / / 0 Comments

We show you our new apartment!

After living in a tiny Seoul apartment for 4 years we finally move to a much bigger one that’s still in the same neighbourhood! We searched for months and months and saw a huge range of apartments in our price range and we knew there had to be a hidden gem out there somewhere!

In this video we show you our new apartment and explain how we can afford an $800,000 apartment without actually paying that much. Getting space this big in Seoul is usually very expensive but we had space as our top priority. As we explain in the video, we were fine with some other not as great aspects, just so we could have space. This apartment seems to be never be remodeled so there are a lot of things we want to change but we are excited about those projects. We will also be making lots of videos about that as well.

There are also lots of great things about our apartment besides from just space. The enclosed balcony for example, and the traditional Korean paper style windows and doors. Hopefully in about a year’s time we will do another apartment tour and show all the things we have changed.

Finding a new apartment in Seoul

2020/05/26 / / 0 Comments

We search for a new apartment in Seoul

In this video we talk about the different types of homes in our area of Seoul and our search for a new apartment. Korea has a very unique renting system, which we explain as well.

People had a lot of questions so we followed up with this video answering some of them:

We will be moving soon so stay tuned for some moving vlogs and some videos about adjusting to our bigger place.

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