Tag Archives: South Korea

Last time I wrote about life abroad on this blog, I was talking about Korean corpse soup. Now I’m putting up articles about visa runs to Laos. What gives? A lot has happened since I last blogged, so I’ll try ...

Pacific Rim! Or maybe I should say, Peoshipik Rim (퍼시픽 림). I’m a huge kaiju fan, so I made a point to see it on opening day here in Korea. Gone are the days when I had to wait months before ...

There’s one persistent risk with living in a foreign country: sounding like an idiot. That’s essentially what my friend Stephanie told me when I told her I wanted to go live in China, back in 2002. “Living abroad,” she said ...

I used to think fresh markets were the best spot to buy good food, but Korea’s giving me second thoughts. As far as I’m concerned, there’s a new king of freshness in town, and he drives a pick-up truck. The ...

Right now, I’m cooking Indian dahl for a young cook in a fried chicken restaurant. I hope he likes it. My cooking tonight is a direct consequence of Korea’s concept of “service.” I’ve never been given as much free food as I ...