I am teaching for a year in Daegu, South Korea. I didn’t want to live in regret, so I left the job that was taking me nowhere and decided to go do something I love – working with children and travel the world.
My best friend Jodi decided this life was for her as well so we headed to South Korea. I love experiencing new food, people and culture. But most of all, I love documenting it to show my friends and family back home.
True Joy of Life
This is the true joy of life.
The being used for a purpose
Recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature
Instead of a feverish, selfish
Little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not
Devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life
Belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live,
It is my privilege to do for it
Whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly
Used up when I die,
For the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I’ve got hold of
For the moment
And I want to make it burn
As brightly as possible before
Handling it on to future generations.
-George Bernard Shaw
From Korea With Love 
Hi,
I really like your blog!
I wondered if you’d be interested in being featured on a Korean Travel Website? Here’s the link to it:
http://www.thesouthkoreatravelguide.com
We started the site as a pilot, with just Gangwon-do, but it’s been so successful that we’re launching version two really soon with information on the whole of Korea.
We don’t have much information yet for Daegu, and we’d love to feature some information from you or your blog – we would link to you and hopefully increase traffic to your blog also… See http://www.thesouthkoreatravelguide.com/thesouthkoreatravelguide_contribute.html for details on what’s in it for you 🙂
Hope you like the website! Look forward to hearing from you!
Claire (site creator)
i miss you
Love your blog, it is a breath of fresh air
Thanks so much!
Hola hija linda, nuestro amor esta a tu lado siempre, no importa la distancia y el tiempo, te extranamos mucho, pero al mismo tiempo nos sentimos muy orgullosos de ti, de todo lo que estas haciendo por la vida, sabemos que disfrutas de lo que haces; felicidades por tu pagina,hemos oido muy buenos comentarios, sigue adelante y te deseamos lo mejor amor… Mami y Papi.
Hi!
I just found your site and I really like the way you blog, sharing your experience with interesting comments and beautiful pictures 🙂 Damn, you totally made me wanna come to Korea…
I have myself a website called http://www.weekend.com.sg which aims to list all the best travel blogs in Asia. Since you definitely offer a quality content, I’m convinced that your blog would interest my visitors. Would you agree to have your RSS feed integrated in my metablog? This way my users could access your blog, and you would have more readers as they would be automatically redirected to your site.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you and to reading your new posts 🙂
I wish you a great week!
Erika
Hi Erika,
Thanks so much for the interest, I’ll be submitting the site through your site. 😀
wow. ive been reading your blog and you seem like a really cool person. I’m glad you are having fun in korea.
it sounds like you have had quite the adventure. I am new to korea and am looking for some cool people to hangout with since I’ve been having a hard time making friends since my school is small and my co teachers are much older. there is one young person but she’s got a korean bf so she never seems to want to hangout. anyway, just trying to make new friends. I don’t have a blog just fb so if I don’t seem to much of a freak to you please shoot me an email on fb or whatever. itd be nice to talk to someone who lives here and is friendly and open minded.
-Rebekah
liabw05@gmail.com
Hi. This is Sooyoun Choi, I am working in Gyeonggi Provincial government building and in charge of Gyeonggi Province’s foreign language websites and blogs. I must say that your blog has lots of good information about South Korea. So I was wondering if I can put some of your posts on our English blog with your permission. The address of our blog is: http://eng.gg.go.kr/
It will be useful for many people. Please give me your thoughts. You can e-mail or call me if you need more information. Thank you.
Soo-youn Choi
Skysoo@etrudy.co.kr
031)8008-2661
Interesting blog Alex, with some useful insights into Korean culture. I’ve added you to my blog list. I especially like the posts on Parents’ Day and Teachers’ Day which provide interesting background information.
Nick
Thanks so much! I really like your in-depth and inciteful articles on Korea.
hi! my name is Mi A. From Korea in Deagu! why sent u e-mail, cause i want u as friends! so if u help in travel i would u help! anyway do u call me?
bpmia_@hotmail.com (this e-mail, my facebook.^^)
Hello Alex,
My name is Nicole, and I’m the manager of publisher partnerships for See Jane Fly (www.seejanefly.com) — an exclusive network of women’s local lifestyle and travel bloggers, who are committed to exploring new and different ways to approach travel – through pop culture, everyday life, design, food, and adventure.
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Hi from the UK
ust found your blog by accident while looking for historic facts after watching the movie 71 into the fire, i found it a very moving film about a culture i had not thought about, thanks to your great blog for teaching me more about korea and its cultures on a day to day basis.
Best Regards
Thanks so much! I was just telling my friend we need to see that movie ^_^
Hi, just wanted to say that your Korean blog is really insightful and has nice photography – keep up the good work!
Thanks so much! ^_^
Hey girl, I’m looking at these comments from other people and I’m thinking to myself I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for giving me something to aspire to. Man, now I’m gonna have to actually really work hard on my blog. Stop being superwoman you’re making the rest of us look bad! 🙂 Just kiddin’.
Hahaha oh please. You should know how madly jealous of the Eat Your Kimchi ppl I am!
BFF A I really miss you
BFF B! What have you been up to?!? I just saw Rob and Jairo the other day.