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  • Question from a reader: the phone interview

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    I love questions from readers! Search my blog to see if your question has already been answered - if it hasn't, e-mail me at chrisinsouthkorea AT gmail DOT com.

    A reader writes in asking about interviews:

    Hi Chris,

    I have really been enjoying your blog while I am going through the process of moving to South Korea for an ESL job myself.

    When I searched your blog I couldn't find any info about how it went when you were interviewing with schools to get jobs.

  • Drinking My Way Through the World Cup: Evil Serbs, Plucky Kiwis and Norks

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    Last Sunday I found myself inexplicably sitting at the bar of The Crown, feeling poisoned and seeing the world through cotton ball eyes. Big Kiwi Sean sat next to me grumbling about the universe, as he's apt to do, being the grumpiest 32-year-old going on 70 that I've ever met. The world is like sandpaper to his nutsack - everything save rugby, lager, and reggae music, that is. The Serbia-Ghana game blurred on the TV. It was a boring match that I paid only lackluster attention too. More interesting than the match were the Serbian fans, who all looked misshapen and evil.

  • Football and Life Changes

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    I guess we all have points in our lives where we don't know what to do with ourselves. When we're faced with so many options that it just seems impossible to choose one path to follow.

    I'm currently experiencing that...again.

    I guess it's normal to be this age and not know what to do or where to go. Having general plans seems pretty good, but there's always the real dream underneath the practicality that keeps vying for your attention, calling out for you to realize it.

  • Living Out of a Bag

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    The horror - a blog post with no pictures!  I must remind you that our iMac is packed in a box on the way to the US so adding pics is a little more challenging right now.  I'll fix that real soon though.

    It's that time again.  Like many deployable sailors, for a significant part of my Navy career, I live out of a bag.  Whatever I can stuff inside a Navy-issued green sea bag, that's what will sustain me for that six month (or longer) deployment.  Actually, we're able to take more gear than that but you should never let the facts get in the way of a good sea story.

  • Cycling around the country

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    This is something I want to do, and soon.  I have some time off in July but my wife doesn’t and I am not sure about arrangements to care for the little guy so I may not be able to do it this year.

    Trevor Anderson managed it last year and was mostly satisfied – after the fact, at least.  This quote reminds me of how I felt when I rode across part of Canada:

  • Busan KOTESOL Summer Conference

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    Updated: I had posted a picture of text that included personal information – I have removed it and tried to replace it.  Safari is showing me a ‘failed photo’ image though.  No luck – refer to the link for further information.

    Original:

    On June 26, the Busan Gyeongnam branch of KOTESOL will hold a mini conference.  It is worth going to on it’s own merits, but also, you could meet me at the door there.

  • The Central Perk Guide to Korean Street Food

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    Editors note: It’s a little known fact that when the idea for Friends was first floated to TV execs, the show was originally intended to be set in Seoul. However, due to budgetary constraints and the threat of nuclear annihilation, the setting was eventually changed to New York – although not before a considerable amount of promotional material had been produced! In this never-before-seen tourism pamphlet financed by the Korean Government, the gang share their thoughts on the Korean street food scene. Enjoy!

  • Shooters

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    Many people in Korea seems to be walking around with DSLR cameras, even 18-year old looking girls who don't exactly strike me as the most obvious target consumer. Expensive photographic equipment is stuffed in handbags or carried casually around the neck with little protection. Occasionally, even the lens caps are alarmingly optional.

  • traveling in Busan

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    I’ve heard many air-defense drill sirens, but this is the first time I’d seen students hiding during them.

    The photo kinda fits – the imaginary pilots are traveling somewhere, right?

  • Akami Japanese Restaurant

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    Wifey and I continue to live in harmony. In the mornings these days I often wake up early and cook breakfast, which can be anything from fried rice to baked beans on toast. After that, I'll often be unable to resist checking my email, while Heather will drink coffee and stare into space.

  • Shouting! Korea!

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    Wow, I'm actually in another country for the World Cup.

    And Koreans are INTENSE.
    They shout things like, KOREA! FIGHTING! Or SHOUTING KOREA! all the time on tv.

    I only really care because I had to lay money down for who will win at work. COME ON KOREA!!

  • Drinking My Way Through the World Cup: Savage Saturday

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     I spent most of Saturday in bed, missing out on some glorious weather in an attempt to sleep off the onslaught of chemicals onto my body and brain.  Pickled coma.  But eventually I creaked out of bed, fed my cats and myself (scrambled eggs and green peppers, mmm), and eventually headed to the Seomyeon area to meet Angry Steve and Sammy for some grilled meat and football.

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