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Photos: yungduk daegae

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Photo Gallery

photos of ganggu harbour
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AWAY FROM THE TOURIST TRAILS: EATING 'YUNGDUK DAEGAE' ALONG kOREA'S EAST COAST

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Views [510] | Comments [1]

  They come from the cold, deep waters of the North Pacific along Russia and Korea's eastern coastlines. They are big in size and plentiful in numbers during the winter months of January and February when it is a custom of many Korean people to ... Read more >

Tags: south korea - off the tourist trail

Photos: Passport & Plate - Korean crab & shrimp bean paste stew

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Flickr Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Ingredients ingredients for "Got Gae-Sae woo Deonjang JJigae Korean Crab & Shrimp Bean Paste Stew water (preferably non-chlorinated three strands of dried black seaweed [about 100 grams] 5 small anchovy-dried 2 heaping tablespoons of Deonjang (Bean ... Read more >
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Tags: passport & plate: italy 2014

VOULEZ DÉJÀ VU? 2

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 | By countryboy | Views [778] | Comments [2]

It's very easy to make fun of another country simply because of a few cultural/linguistic differences.   So here we go.   The manicurist shop called Hand Job .   The Korean award clearly displayed in ... Read more >

First days in Phuket

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 | By thaibug | Views [333]

Been staying at a guest house, enjoying the warm weather and the freedom of not having an alarm to wake up to.   I landed in Phuket on Friday night.   My first laugh.....and my first cultural mistake.   I found the pick up man who was ... Read more >

VOULEZ DÉJÀ VU? 1

Tue, 3 Dec 2013 | By countryboy | Views [830] | Comments [4]

  VOULEZ DÉJÀ VU 1   I found Whore Street.   But more of that later.   Welcome back, gentle readers. Welcome back to the proper blog. We all know there's been a few entries ... Read more >

Tags: mamma mia

Festival - Chuseok (??), a Harvest Festival

Wed, 6 Nov 2013 | By lastqueenofskye | Views [413] | Video | Scholarship Entry

It's September in South Korea. As the summer heat began to die down and the wind turned crisp, we could feel a tension in the air as the Harvest season drew near. This was the beginning of festivals, and the festival to start it all was the most important ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Film Scholarships 2013

Hangover Soup: The Power of the Pork Spine

Mon, 9 Sep 2013 | By connectlocally | Views [10427]

It is Saturday morning at 1 a.m. and I am sitting at a folding table outside the GS Mart, a ubiquitous convenience store in my little neighborhood of Seoul. Next to me is my boyfriend, Hudson, and across from us are Ik and Jiny: a young Korean couple ... Read more >

Tags: food, hangover, hangover cures, pork, seoul, south korea, travel, trekking

Good-Bye Korea ~ An End to a Four Year Affair

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 | By miss_traveller | Views [1128]

So much has happened in these last few months. I had signed a contract to go to China and would have been on my way there in a few days, but I changed my mind. I got sick these last few months and after a lot of stressing and decision making - I decided ... Read more >

A 'place' I have visited

Mon, 8 Jul 2013 | By korea_scholarship_entry | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

The harshness of the camera is something I still feel and I stop myself from taking certain pictures or wielding my camera at certain occasions for fear of being invasive, I would like to learn to overcome that and let the camera become part of a dialogue ... Read more >
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2013

Photos: the parting of the sea at Jin Island

Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By summeronrepeat | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

First, I need to apologize for the lack of editing and adjustments done to my photos. The reason for this leads to the brief story of my life. The moment when I first realized my love for creating photography was on a family vacation when my Dad let me ... Read more >
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Photos: My Scholarship entry - The Life of a Kindergartener

Wed, 3 Jul 2013 | By spotell | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

I recently listened to an interview with Ira Glass (of This American Life) in which he spoke about the early years of his career. During that period Ira believed he had good taste and a critical eye when it came to judging quality material. However, despite ... Read more >
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Photos: Nostalgia for the Yesteryears

Mon, 1 Jul 2013 | By sk4ks | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

When I was 12, my life savings went towards buying my first camera. I carried my Sony Mavica and 3.5 floppy disks at all times, and I tried hard to perfect the craft of capturing a moment and not just an image. I learned to use the dark room in high school ... Read more >
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Tags: travel photography scholarship 2013

Photos: My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 | By katria | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

I am a new graduate from the Philippines with a passion and belief in photojournalism as a means to tell stories. I just graduate cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a journalism degree. My undergraduate senior thesis was about the status ... Read more >
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Advice for Newbies coming to Korea

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 | By miss_traveller | Views [3144] | Comments [1]

  Are you ready? It is hard to believe that in August, lt'll be almost four years that I have taught in the 'Land of the Morning Calm'. Not four years consecutively mind you. I first started teaching in a private 'hakwon' in 2005. Now eight years ... Read more >

Tags: advice, culture, psychology

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