A few days ago, at 1am, I suddenly found myself with severe cravings for Japanese style ramen. I tried to suppress them, but failed miserably, and thus I found myself walking the streets around Sinchon station in an attempt to find a place that could satisfy my cravings while the icy wind threatened with hypothermia.
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Have you ever applied for an English-teaching job in South Korea? If you are white, landing a job might be a lot easier. But for non-white teachers, it could be a different story. Did you know that you could be denied a job in South Korea because of reasons other than your lack of teaching
In Sinchon at the outskirts of the bar and nightlife area is a small café with the, for most westerners, the rather eye catching, name “The Pie Hole”. Whether the name is meant as a joke is unclear. Joke or not I’ve found it to be a great source of entertainment, but then I could
Mysterious sinkholes, decreasing water levels in the lake nearby, and a series of safety issues has been giving the Lotte World Tower a bad rep. Lotte is in the process of building the tower, which is to be Seoul’s tallest building and 6th tallest in the world. This giant entertainment center, which will include hotels,
Namaste/Hello/ Hola, I work as a Strategy executive in an Engineering company in Korea. Since its small company we don’t have many foreign employees except me and one more colleague. Since only we two are from another planet, we are always curious about Korean Culture. And the most popular among these are “how often do
Around 3.45pm on Saturday 6th of December, Gyeongnam FC were officially relegated from the top tier of Korean football (K-League Classic) to the second division (K-League Challenge) thanks to losing out in a home and away play-off match to Gwangju FC. For the couple of thousand Gyeongnam fans at the game, looking forward to the
Situated about halfway between Hongdae and Sinchon is a seemingly insignificant burger joint called Hand-in-hand Burger. Though the ceilings are high the place is small and minimalistic in their decoration, a bit factory like. Walking by you could easily dismiss it as just another burger joint serving up some mediocre stuff, and I would probably
