Tag: korea (Page 5 of 7)

World Cup

2014/06/19 / Nic / 27 Comments

I’m realising how big the World Cup is in Korea. I naively thought that my husband would just watch games with Korea or games with Australia playing. I now realise that he tries to watch every single game he possibly can… and gets no sleep because of it. If he can’t watch it on TV or his laptop, he is watching from his phone. That’s why we haven’t filmed a Mr Gwon Time for this week yet.

So when I go out on the roof at 3am, it’s usually pretty quiet and peaceful. Not at the moment!

Are you enjoying the World Cup? Who are you supporting?

Mosquito Bites

2014/06/17 / Nic / 22 Comments

(Quick comic again, busy with book stuff).

Mosquitoes don’t like me very much! They love my husband though and he will get a lot of bites. I’ve watched mosquitoes come near me before and they’ll hover above my skin for a few seconds and then often they’ll just fly away and move onto someone better tasting.

Farm Work in Korea

2014/06/11 / Nic / 2 Comments

On the weekend I noticed a lot of farm work was being done. There were a lot more people in the fields and I soon discovered that in order for the onion crops to be harvested family, friends and other workers are called in to help. We rode our bikes around and filmed some of the onion harvesting and some other farm work being done. We didn’t want to shove the camera in people’s faces so we mostly filmed at a distance.

Things that have also changed since our last countryside video: the concrete channels besides the fields have been cleaned out and now flow with water, wheat has been harvested and rice is now being planted in those fields, strawberry plants are left to die, potatoes are in season and being harvested, chilli plants are being grown, and kiwifruits are getting bigger but not full size yet.

Weird English

2014/05/30 / Nic / 39 Comments

I actually really like it when clothing has very cute English or Konglish and it does make some sense. But when it’s pretty much gibberish it annoys me. Mr Gwon informs me every single time, “Nobody cares.” It’s seen as cool to have English on clothes and it doesn’t have to make sense which is why there ends up being some complete gibberish. People aren’t native English speakers here so don’t care that it makes no sense.

I do get annoyed at the swear words everywhere though. Oh I’m so old and crotchety! But seriously Korea, stop putting the F-word on everything, especially on clothing for younger girls.

Exploring

2014/05/28 / Nic / 26 Comments

I’m a terrible singer, so just remember that as you read this comic…

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:

Tell Us What To Do 3

2013/08/07 / Nic / 6 Comments

http://youtu.be/HzqcIkPdo2I

Okay new video!