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Homigot: Land of the Rising Sun At New Year, both Lunar and of the Gregorian variety, Korean people tend to visit places in the east of the country to watch the very first sunrise. There are often Sunrise Festivals (there is a festival for everything in Korea. EVERYTHING.) organised with bands and dancing and free tteokguk, a rice cake soup traditionally ea ...

Seollal: Lunar New Year Seollal is the first day of the lunar year and fell on January 23rd this year. Korean New Year generally falls on the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice. Seollal is a three-day holiday usually spent with family and has many associated traditions.

I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day… Since this was the first time we’ve been away from home for the big day, Brian and I decided to go on a ‘Christmas Offensive’ this year by making things as festive as humanly possible for the entire month of December. We started off right, puting up our tree in the first week, helped along ni ...

Christmas in Korea Re-published with permission from the author. Ch ...

Seoul: Food, Glorious Food We went to Seoul last weekend for the first time since we arrived in Korea six months ago. The cover reason for the trip was because it was our anniversary, but really, we went to Seoul for the food. Don’t get me wrong, I worship at the alter of Korean food (bibimbap, samguepsal and galbi: my love for you will never fade ...

Andong: Minbaks, Jjimdak and Fireworks

Happy Pepero Day! Pepero, for the uninitiated, are biscuit sticks either covered or filled with chocolate. They are a super-popular snack in Korea, especially in my apartment, because in addition to being super-popular, they are also super-tasty!

Andong: Getting Married At the Mask Dance festival, there was a booth where you could try on traditional Korean clothes, called Hanbok. I’d been dying to do this since we got to Korea, so I leapt into the booth as fast as my legs could carry me. Brian was having none of it, but when the ladies in charge saw that we were a couple they dragged him in and started taking out the wedding outfit ...

Welcome to Apartment 403 So it’s taken me five months to get around to even mentioning our apartment, and it’s lucky I waited, because Apartment 403 is actually our second abode in Korea. The first one didn’t take to us and during the rainy season it kept dumping water on our heads while we slept. So we moved next door for a much more su ...