The Gentrification of Itaewon, Seoul
In 2006 the number of foreign residents in South Korea exceeded one million. This was big news in one of the world's most homogeneous...
Work as a Korean Film Extra
By guest contributor, Matthew Cole.
I thought it was pretty cool when offered a role as an extra in a new movie being shot here...
Pissed in Praha (Part 1)
Joining fifty thousand others in the Old Town Square it occurred to me that I perhaps wasn't the first fearless adventurer to discover Prague....
Christmas in South Korea
Christmas had come once again and, as was tradition I told my wife it just didn't feel like Christmas. Once again she asked what exactly...
The Angry Bulgarian Bus Driver
“Oh my god, it’s him!” Aleks cried. She was jumping up and down and giggling like a schoolgirl.
I had heard stories about the man...
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