Way back, on a humid weekend in late July, I travelled with some of my old mates from Gwangju-si to the Boryeong Mud Festival. The 14th Bory...

Way back, in the last 2 weeks of July, it was hot and humid and raining lots which meant:  a) that it was another sticky Korean summer  b) I...

Did you know that July 1 is Canada Day? No, me neither. But living and working in Korea has taught me many things about other cultures and n...

So May was rushing by and the day that we would have to leave our lovely apartment in Gwangju -si drew ever closer. Yes, the day we would ha...

Did you know that Buddha's birthday is celebrated on the  eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese Lunar calendar every year in Eas...

Back in spring we got our first visitor from England, to be honest I hadn't really expected anyone to make the long journey out here. ...

Back in April we travelled with our posse from Gwangju-si to the Spring Flower Festival at Yeouido in central Seoul. It was one of the first...

Our third museum outing in Seoul was to the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan-dong. Despite being called a memorial it's really more like...

On a clear, cold day in late March we visited our next museum in Seoul. This time it was the sombre, imposing Seodaemun Prison History Hall ...

Over several rather chilly weekends in March and early April we visited three of Seoul's major museums. We hadn't really looked at a...

On the first Sunday of April we decided to take a little hiking trip to Seoul. It was a pretty mild day considering how early in the year  i...

Back on a warm, sunny day in April, we went to Everland with a couple of our friends. Everland is South Korea's biggest theme park locat...

Back in the middle of March, we travelled with a few other Gwangju waygookin (foreigners) down to Jeolla Province in  the south western corn...

Way back in March, we started the new school year with a fresh batch of 1st year middle school students (12 -13 year olds in Western age) t...

Way back on the last weekend in February we went to the zoo in Seoul Grand Park.with our British 'chums' Danny and Charlotte. This w...

Back in the chilly depths of mid February, Rowan and I attended our first Korean style wedding. The wedding was for our old university mate ...

We were given a few days of vacation during the first week of February for the Korean New Year (based on the lunar calendar, like China) an...

We're deep into winter vacation here at the moment, it's extremely cold (-18°C on my way into work yesterday) and, because it's ...

Since October 2010, we have been in secret martial arts training somewhere deep in the Gwangju underground. If you have a problem, if no-one...