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There are no shortage of theories with regards to the recent inactivity of the once-prolific “Stu” of speakingkorea.com. Has he been canned by Andrew Farrell for pretending he’s in the country when he’s actually not? Has he finally run out of ideas on how to analyze Korean culture from a “holier-than-thou” Western perspective? Or perhaps he has heeded the call of Rudyard Kipling and taken [ READ MORE ]
I have been working under difficult conditions in the last two months — primarily a dial-up internet connection on which things take minutes when they should take seconds. I have had more than one post disappear after it was originally publish. This was the case with an entry previously put up on September 23rd. I have [ READ MORE ]
In case you may have noticed, some of the dates of my entries have been manually changed by yours truly. I’ve done this because the website keeps putting my posts up according to Korean time. But since I’m currently (for two more weeks exactly) in Canada, I’m 12 hours behind. So some entries have been put up [ READ MORE ]
It’s vacation time in Korea and so Andrew Farrell has entrusted this hallowed website to me for the last five days or so. It’s been a yeoman effort on my part to keep it updated, but something’s come up: I’ve taken the opportunity, while in Canada until the end of August, to do a little traveling [ READ MORE ]
Today we were delighted to discover that our website was named one of the top ten Korean websites by Go Overseas — a popular website devoted to teaching, studying and volunteering abroad. As such, we will be unabashedly displaying their seal of approval as a featured blogger on our about page. Of course, it has been the [ READ MORE ]
I’ve added a bit of context to yesterday’s little foreign boy post. Check it out here or look below. Cheers, -Stu [ READ MORE ]
That’s right! I say launched to make it sound more spectacular, but really it only took a minute. Anyway, direct your vision to the top-right corner and you’ll see an extra button titled “Fan Page”. This will take you to a link for our new facebook fan page. Right now our main priority is this here [ READ MORE ]
Regular visitors to this site have been speculating recently as to the whereabouts of the two columnists, Mr. S. R. Smallwood, and Mr. A. M. Farrell. Media reports have suggested that Mr.Farrell offered his immediate resignation last Wednesday, but the request was turned down by Mr. Smallwood. It is then believed that after a compromise [ READ MORE ]
Merry Christmas and have a happy 2010 from all at speakingkorea.com. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for reading our blog during its early days, and as soon as the holiday season ends, myself and Stuart will return with more insights into living in Korea. Enjoy! [ READ MORE ]