TESL Korea News

Summer is still in full swing and so are many of Korea’s festivals, which will be hoping to catch the last of the sun’s rays now fall is beginning to creep up on us. Among some of the great festivals on this month include the World Martial Arts Festival in Chungju, the DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival, and the Seoul ... Read More

By Brooke Petersen The state of Korea’s sewage and waste disposal system has been a raging topic of debate for the last 20 years and many opinions have been raised regarding its functionality and sanitization levels for its 49 million residents. There is no doubt the Korean government has come far since the Korean War in building a satisfactory sanitization system, though ... Read More

  This is a thick, spicy, and very hearty soup made from ox (beef) bone broth with soybean paste (doenjang), soybean sprouts, white radish, green onions and sometimes ox blood. Also called ‘early morning soup’ or ‘hangover soup’, this is a very traditional home-style dish often eaten after a night of heavy drinking. Serves 6 WARNING: This recipe takes a little more prep ... Read More

By Paul Graham, www.lastingtransitions.com It was hot, humid, and probably the smoggiest day I’ve encountered since my early childhood days in Los Angeles in the 1980?s, making it as they say in photography terms – a white-balance nightmare; not to mention enduring and experiencing the feeling of sitting in a stuffy, smoky room and not being able to leave. However, all this ... Read More

By Andrew Farrell, www.speakingkorea.com My school has officially opened. On Saturday we had what was supposed to be a ‘ceremony’, but it turned out to be a bunch of Koreans hijacking the six classrooms and finding some new and exciting places to consume alcohol and eat crushed pigs skull in what is normally a place of learning and education. For the briefest ... Read More

Teach ESL Korea Recruiting is teaming up with the good folks behind the Help Hannah Bar Crawl, to help raise money for a great cause. In Ilsan (Goyang) this event is what Dan Hendrickson, TEK owner, said was “a great way for (people) to get together and get to know each other, support a great cause, enjoy the Ilsan bar scene ... Read More

By Andrew Farrell, www.speakingkorea.com The frightening thing about September 1st 1983 was this happened to be the second time a Korean Air passenger jet was shot or blown out of the sky by Soviet planes. Five years previous, in April 1978, Korean Air Flight 902 from Paris to Anchorage was hit by the second of two P-60 rockets and rapidly descended ... Read More

» Brooke Petersen Landslides have claimed the lives of 32 people as heavy rain flooded homes and caused chaos across the northern areas of South Korea. Perhaps the most devastating, a hotel at a mountain resort in Chuncheon, east of Seoul, killed 13 people, most of them students. They were part of a university group doing volunteer work in the area. Other major ... Read More

» Brooke Petersen Bad news for those of you who are intimately familiar with Nate or Cyworld – your information could be in the hands of someone else. Last month, SK Communications Co. said that personal information of its 35 million online users had been hacked. This of course, has been South Korea’s biggest and worst online security breach. Fears are now focused ... Read More

If the August heat is really starting to get to you, it’s a good idea to head where the wind is blowing, the breeze is cooler, the water is refreshing and the fun is unlimited. This month Korea has on a number of great coastal festivals sure to lighten your mood. Busan Sea Festival When: August 01, 2011 - August 09, ... Read More