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Korea And The Attack Of The Killer...Fans?

If you ever decide to go to Korea to…I don’t know, teach English or visit friends or buy truckloads of cheap purses, you’ll notice two things during the summer. 1. It’s very, very hot and humid. Be prepared to …
Issue #8 of Discounderworld is ready!

And the hits keep coming. I'm on page 42. Words and pictures both originate from the various lobes of my brain. *Discounderworld was recently rated as the best New Zealand-based magazine to feature Americans writing a…
We're so gallantly streaming

When I came back from Korea, my first week in America was spent in Florida. It was October. The beaches were deserted, save for the snowbirds slowly shuffling along the tidelines in their running shoes and stretched tube…
How to Shoot People...

...With a camera :) Every weekend, I traipsed around Seoul with my camera. I use a nikon d70s with an 18-200mm lens. I preferred it over the other models on display because it had two knobs to adjust both shutter speed …
On Irishmen and Ajushees

Despite my propensity for vast and spontaneous acts of exploration, I tend to like a certain degree of control in my surroundings. I’m vaguely OCD like that. It’s a little quirk, but a quirk nonetheless. In Seo…
Dark nights of the Seoul

It was one of those magical nights. The kind of night where you constantly have the urge to snap your fingers in front of your face to make sure they're really there. It started at 11. I meet a friend in Dongdaemun …
A bit of advice for all future teachers: Learn to lie

A little over two years ago, I returned to America after a year of teaching ESL in South Korea. It was a wonderful time. I have so many awesome memories, and would recommend the experience to anyone so long as they can s…
Hanguk Halloween

Since so many of you enjoyed my last time-warp entry from two years ago, I've decided to revisit Korea again. At least digitally. I blogged a lot about it then, and took copious amounts of pictures. Most of you weren't a…