While living in South Korea I got together with Metal Guy and did some metal designing.  I told him what I wanted, drew it out and he made the prototypes.  He also had a Korean manufacturer that he used.  He scratched his head over my delight.  He sees hangul every day and didn't appreciate the beauty of it much like I feel about the English alphabet.The earrings say "Sara ...

Wow, what a deal or should I say ordeal.  This post I'll fill you in on our flight and first days back home.  We did somes sightseeing those last few days in Seoul and I'll blog about that at a later date.  Grab a coffee or Coke and sit back, this is going to be a long post.  Rocketman decided to check our plane tickets just to make sure everything was fine.  It's a g ...

Still feeling disoriented?  I've been here like 3 lifetimes and I still have a hard time figuring out where my local Immigration office is.  Here's a quick head's up from your good buddies over at the Itaewon Global Village Center. 

There are two places in Hongdae that offer up one of my favorite meals in Korea, but since I was in Busan last week I got to eat the stuff where it came from. Some years ago I was introduced to dwaejigukbab, or pork stew, and haven’t been able to get enough of it since. This meal, I was told, isn’t generally eaten by girls because the smell can be strong, or foreigners, ...

When we were at Seoul Station last weekend, we saw this wonderful light show on a building across the street.  I took some video of it.We've been running around doing a ton of sightseeing which I'll post about when we are back home.  It's been wild and we have been having a blast.  Our flight leaves at 11:30 am on February 1st and arrives in Minneapolis and the same time.  Imag ...

I went out to meet a Spanish friend for lunch yesterday and ended up staying out til past midnight, thanks to all the free TradFest events in Temple Bar. I met up with a load of awesome couchsurfers and spent hours walking around from pub to pub listening to all the great traditional Irish music and even had a free Irish dancing lesson in The Arlington Hotel!

I met KJ one last time near Dongdaemun to visit her favorite silk and satin store.  It happens to be a hanbok store too.  I walked into a color explosion.  There were rolls of fabric everywhere and I was in heaven.The shop was tiny but it had a steady stream of customers.  I chose one pattern and bought 10 different colors to make a transparent bojagi like m ...

Rocketman had a going away dinner Thursday night with all his co-workers.  He came home not too late (around 11pm) and with these wonderful gifts.  This picture is of what I would call Buddha's sidekick.   I forgot his name and what it symbolizes.  I will have to ask my Korean girlfriends and then write it down.  His co-workers are sad to see him go and like ourselves ...

I arrived in Korea after a month away and immediately, after stopping home to unpack and pack again, took the KTX down to Busan to have my first Lunar New Year with my new Korean family. The Lunar New Year is a major holiday in Korea where families travel long distances to their hometowns to pay respect to their ancestors. This year it fell on January 23. In years previous, this ho ...

I arrived at chilbo an hour late and to my surprise Metal Guy was already there.  He had designed and made me a butterfly (nabi) brooch.  Since I was so late, he painted it for me while I worked on another project.                             &n ...