South Korea

From our contributors: week of September 27th

Here’s our bi-weekly roundup of articles written by some members of our contributors team on their personal blogs. Happy reading!

LeX, our contributor from Malaysia, writes about the 10 festivals visitors to Korea shouldn’t miss this autumn. From the Icheon Ceramics Festival to the Andong Mask Dance Festival to the Gyeongju Traditional Drink & Rice Cake Festival, LeX provides interesting and useful information for visitors.

“After a hot steaming summer, autumn is on its way. The floras started to shrink back to its buds, some of the flowers may start to wilt and fall drop to prepare the coming of cold season. The tree of the leaves will start to turn into maple leaves where various attracting colours such yellow, orange, red maple leaves can be seen everywhere in Korea. So, what can you do if you want to visit Korea in this refreshing fall season? ” (more…)

Korea: it’s superfast!

“Things are crazy over here!” says Taewoo Danny Kim, in a post explaining Korea’s Pali Pali (빨리빨리) culture of speed.

He’s also the author of one of Korea’s most widely-read tech blogs and the English-language TechnoKimchi explains both Korean culture and digital topics to non-Korean speaking outsiders. More on the name here.

If you’re fascinated by Asia’s digital generation, this is your blog. If you’re more interested in Korean culture, well there’s probably something for you here too.

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From Malaysia to Korea and back

LeX is a Malaysian university student who recently returned from a study exchange in Korea. Here he explains some of the differences he noticed between Malaysian and Korean culture and confirms that Malaysian food is really as good as everyone says!

First, please tell us something about yourself

Hi, I am Tan Yih Liang (陈奕良/단익량 – Chinese/Korean), my nickname is LeX.

I am Malaysian Chinese and my parents too. I was born in a small town called Butterworth which is located in the state of Penang. I live in a very average family.

My life getting into another transition after I graduated from High School, I was admitted to a Pre-University College in another state and then straight away admitted into University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. During my junior year in University, I was awarded ASEAN scholarship to participate in Student Exchange program in South Korea for a year! And now, I am back in Malaysia to finish my study in the university. Finally, I will graduate at the end of this year very soon!

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Far Far Away

‘Flowerful’ is a 20 something teacher from South Korea. She posts regularly about her life in Far Far Away.

In two different posts this week we can see how life for Koreans is both similar (she worries about finding the right man) and different (she explains that the way age is calculated in Korea means that when she was only two weeks old her official age was 2!) to life in other countries.