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People who come to Korea under an E-2 visa to teach English do so with the understanding that they will move into a paid-for and fully-furnished single apartment when they arrive. What they get is sometimes radically different than what they imagine. Living arrangements are understandably a major issue between employers and their foreign staff — [ READ MORE ]
It hit me like blanket as I exited Incheon International airport upon my recent reentry of Korea: it was real humidity, not the sort of thing the weather girl goes on and on about on the local news at home. Summers in Korea are really damp. The air is thick, hot and sticky. It’s the beginning of [ READ MORE ]
In Korea many women think they can lose their virginity to a tampon. All images of having sex with a tampon aside, this essentially means they believe they will break their hymen if they use them, therefore marking themselves “deflowered”. This isn’t a completely accurate definition of virginity itself. That said, the tampon misconception is another [ READ MORE ]
Consider the fattiest cuts of bacon, three, no, four times thicker than normal, frying on a pan roasting with onions and garlic. As they cook, fat oozes out of the meat, self-greasing the pan. The smell of pork wafts through the air into your clothes and hair. You flip and cut these lardy strips of meat [ READ MORE ]
Foreigners living in Korea are divided between those who like kimchi and those who don’t. But nobody can claim to be a hater until they’ve tried it with bossam – tender slices of pork, often quite fatty, served with the sweetest, most delicious kimchi you could imagine. Well, perhaps you can’t imagine it. Kimchi on it’s own [ READ MORE ]
In honour of the dick stick that pleasured us all upon its presentation by Andrew the other day, I bring you more cock in Korea. Here’s a restaurant in downtown Gwangju, famously known among foreigners for its name – Cock. As you might have guessed, they serve chicken. Foreigners get photos taken with the sign outside on [ READ MORE ]
I’m on an island, and there’s no way off. It wouldn’t be like this if I were in a similar situation in Korea, I just know it. You see, I’m on vacation at my parent’s home in Canada. It’s a rural area, about a fifty minute drive by car to the capital city of my province [ READ MORE ]
We promised to bring you more examples of bad English in Korea. You’ll soon see why Koreans are bringing over anybody with an unspecified degree to teach English. “Hick the aroma of fresh coffee go up beteween city,” says the sign on the outdoor patio of a coffee shop in my neighbourhood. There is not a single [ READ MORE ]
Each sunny day many Korean women sport what looks to foreign eyes like something more suited to the fashions of the Victorian era. As late as the early parts of the twentieth century in the West fair skin was coveted, while darker skin was a bit provincial. Women brought parasols with them for delightful casual walks, [ READ MORE ]
What would happen in your native country if some hardcore Christian in priestly robes stood at the entrance of your local drinking hole praying for your salvation? I picture a chorus of patrons racing one another to be the first to effectively tell the guy off. Maybe that’s just me. Now, what if this holy man was [ READ MORE ]