When I think about the homesickness I sometimes feel, it almost always is rooted in a deep nostalgia. "Nostalgia is dangerous." That was the topic of a lesson in my expository writing class my senior year of college. And in many ways that is true, but I've always been one to romanticize the years of…
Disclaimer: Christine in Korea is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Since making the decision to move to Korea I have gotten a lot of questions. Some of these questions come…
One of the biggest challenges I have living in Korea is finding food I can eat that wasn't prepared in my own kitchen. Living in a small city by Korean standards, my options for eating out tend to be pretty limited. After nearly five months of living in Jinju, I've become used to it and…
Although this isn't my first year living on my own, it is my first year living so far from my friends and family. In the weeks leading up to the holiday season, I was a little skepticle about how I'd spend Thanksgiving, my first holiday in Korea. But as Thanksgiving day approached, plans became more…
Day in and day out, it's easy to lose track of how much time has passed. As each day comes and goes in my new life, I sometimes forget that it's already been over two months since I first arrived in Korea: excited, hopeful, and a little overwhelmed. Now, as I sit in my 4th…
Find any person and ask them their opinion on living in a city and I guarantee that they'll have one, whether they've ever lived in a city or not. I will be the first to agree, living in the city is not for everyone, and by the same token, living in a rural area (or…
Continue reading ➞ Life in Jinju: What City Life is Really Like
On a sunny October weekend, I was lucky enough to take a trip to two new places in South Korea, Andong and Pohang. The trip was an overnight adventure planned out and taken by my school, so on a cold Saturday morning, I boarded a large travel bus full of students and those who work…
Continue reading ➞ Traveling Korea: Andong (안동) & Pohang (포항)
I do this funny thing in my head whenever I imagine someone speaking to me in another language. In my mind, they are speaking German, because I know German, but it's still a foreign langauge to me. So whenever I imagined scenerios that could play out in Korea, the person was always speaking to me in German,…
There are few things I love to do on a plane more than watch the flight map. Something about seeing the little animated plane follow a destined path across the globe is incredibly satisfying to me, especially because I know that like the little plane on the map, I am also following a destined path…
So I’m sure it has crossed your mind at least once: what kind of person just decides to move to a country that they have never been to, and what initially sparked that sense of adventure? I’ve thought about that myself, because I’d never been to Korea, and didn’t really know anyone who had. But…
