Unless you have plans to return to your home country for the holiday season (happy ChristmaHanukKwanzikuh to you, by the way), buying - and shipping - presents is the likely way to get your gifts home in time for the holidays.
While you know your parents and friends better than I do, here are some suggestions for making their Christmas a Korean one - and yours an easier one. Before purchasing, shop around. The same thing will cost 20% less (or more) at other places around town.
One night, after a particularly heady bout of alcoholism at one of Jinju's finest watering holes, a few of us not yet ready to call it a night headed out for more beer, good cheer and chow. While Jinju was a city, plenty of its eating establishments had a curtain call somewhere in the vicinity of midnight, leaving us with not many choices.
As reported about in this month's events, the Seoul Snow Jam snowboarding event made Gwanghwamun Plaza feel almost like the more famous X-games. A few quirks aside, it was a fairly well-run, if overcrowded, event.
The owners of the apartment we rent recently told us they were planning to sell it, which meant we either had to buy it, or find somewhere else to live. It caused me to consider the fact that in a little over three years, I've moved home four times - three times of which were between countries - and perhaps under the circumstances I shouldn't feel ashamed to be reluctant to add a fifth relocation to my list.
If the recent Korea Times article or the snowboard competition in downtown Seoul whetted your appetite to try it yourself, Seoul has several places relatively nearby to ski or snowboard. As you might expect in a country of mostly mountains, skiing and snowboarding are quite popular winter sports. While there are dozens of places to give it a try, none are located in Seoul proper, and traveling to most areas works best if you speak Korean, have a car, or both.
Throughout our stay in Australia, we were constantly operating on a lack of sleep. To catch up adequately would have required a good day's rest, but time was precious. I'm really looking forward to one day having a holiday where we can just wind down and relax and do absolutely nothing for a few days. But I would probably end up spoiling it by working out a way to do something constructive.
6 Jun 2009, It can be very easy to live someplace and never visit its tourist attractions. We just think there's always tomorrow and we have so many other places to visit in other cities. And so to avoid this common
pitfall, I get myself out into Masan and hike up their tall 무학산 Muhaksan, a 761 meter mountain on the edge of the city.
Seoul features some wonderful places to see Christmas lights and decorations - but not all of them are where you might expect. Open up http://www.8bitchristmas.com/ in a new window for some chiptune Christmas music while strolling through the pictures.
31 May 2009, So today I explore a bit of Masan. I start by walking through 경남대학교 Kyung Nam University and through
the higher-elevation part of the city for a little view of the bay.
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