10 Fun facts about Korea (part 1)

1. In summer rain season you can see many people with rain boots it's like a fashion here haha

They come with heels too haha

2. Korean people are tall. At least taller than me! I'm very short btw 160cm and high schoolers are like 190cm!!!

My friend Iris and Giyun

3. Dating is a big thing here. Every 14th of each month is a special date, couples wear couple teachers and couple rings, couple phones, cuple bank account, couple.. you name it. And they put their Girlfriend/Boyfriend's picture as their profile pic on social medias.

Couple ring

4. Koreans have another way to count their age... This one is difficult to explain but if you were born in one year it doesn't matter the month everyone has the same age... And you are born with 1 year... Haha something like that. 

Example: I was born in 1991 and I'm 23 years old but in Korea I am 25.

5. Some Koreans don't know that other countries count their age differently. 

6. Most Koreans are afraid of English! 

7. If you have a "small face" and big eyes you are the most beautiful person in the entire world for them. (True story)

8. Apparently I have the smallest face in the world and people have stopped me on the streets just to take pictures of me and mothers want their kids to be in the picture too.

9. Some ajummas are scary.

Story: I wanted to cede my seat on the subway to an ajumma and she pushed me back saying no no! Haha I think that's her way to be nice.

10. Everyone follow the same fashion trend. If you are young you will dress like every young person including the beautiful aluminum foil sandals! And if you are an ajumma you need to get that beautiful perm and wear clothes with all the colors in the rainbow and more.

6 months in Korea

Hi! My name is Angelique, I live in S.Korea and I will be writing on this blog about my experiences and life in Korea.

Before arriving

I was planning to travel the world for years and while I was studying countries and cultures I fell in love with Korea. It seemed to be a very safe place, with good people with good education and manners, and I was not wrong. This country is amazing.

While I was a university student I search for all the ways possible to live in Korea. I didn't want it to be just a pleasure travel. I wanted to live here and experience the culture and life.

I found these options:

1. Finish my studies in Korea.

2. The TaLK program

3. The EPIK program

4. Hagwon

5. Get married with the person who was my bf for 3 years and who was in the army and they were going to send him here... Haha

Option 5 was very convincing at that time haha but it was a total fail!

So I opt for the hard ones:

Options and thoughts:

1. It wasn't very convincing to live far without any income.

2. The talk program locates you in rural areas only.

3. EPIK 100% convincing but very competitive for someone without experience.

4. Hagwon yay! But scary.

5. FAIL! Haha

And the adventure began!

The interviews, the process, the paperwork, the visa, woohoo!!

(If you want a detailed blog about the process please request it in the comments)

To make it short, I had 4 interviews in which I passed two. Yay me!

One was in Incheon and the other one in Seoul. Guess which one o chose?, well, seoul of course.

I will never regret my decision!

My hagwon is wonderful, my apartment is expectacular and my life in Seoul is fantastic!

 
 

     Coming Soon:

• Hair salons
• Clubs
• Food
• Trasnportation
• Relationships and dating
• Busan!
• Summer
• ....