The bus to Sejong City passes through plenty of rice fields. The speed bumps are seen occasionally and felt seconds later, especially through the straight parts of the road. Look up to appreciate the mountains, both near and far, and down to take in a stream that runs just as it has for decades. Just when you’re about to dismiss the multi-trillion-won project as a pipe dream, the first few s ...

As usual, random picture posts are those wonderful pictures that didn’t fit in any other post.

Chris in South Korea note: this guest post comes courtesy of my girlfriend, who after hours of hard work has translated a large part of the nutritional information for almost every Korean food you’ll eat! The words and chart are her own, while the photo below is mine.

Let’s play a little game here. Let’s take two groups, group A and group B. Let’s pretend you’ve been asked by join an event being thrown by group A. The people that approach you speak English, and seem like pretty good people. You go to one of the events, you have fun, and you look around and see nothing but happy, smiling faces. There’s nothing really suspicious abou ...

SEEN in Itaewon – I could accept one typo, but four in precisely the same way? A little odd.

Not a fan of stairs? The tunnel has hundreds - beware...