#korea travel

[studykac]

📖07.09.23📖

Another busy study day in SK. Got in another five study chapters and took the scenic route to a new favourite café! Also almost finished another physical read but got horrendously distracted by my criminal minds rewatch...

📖 = Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

🎧 = To You by Seventeen

[roseange]

slow down!

credits 💌

[minggukieology]

Visiting Korea

Hey everyone, as I'm working on my itinerary for my upcoming trip to SK I thought I'd quickly share this resource with you: BTS ROAD*

I'm not sure how well known/unknown this website among international armys is but if you are planning a visit to SK at any point in the future, this website has all the fancafes/birthday ads and such with opening hours, address etc. They track not only fan events in Seoul but all over Korea. Highly recommend for fancafe tour planning!

(*Be aware that some knowledge of Korean is needed to navigate the website)

[1-800-moatinyghase]

Hey guys! I have to work on building an audience for my YouTube channel for a class!

I would really appreciate if you checked out my channel and subscribed to it🥹 making YouTube videos is really nerve wracking for me right now as creativity has been a bit of a difficult feat but I’m working on it :)

I put a lot of tags but everything in the tags is what I have already posted or plan to post.

I will be talking about how I study Korean and other languages in the long form videos and just general talk about what I did during study abroad and being a black woman in east Asia.

[balasaraptor]

People of the Night Market.

Dongdaemun Market - Jeju Island South Korea

[bardofavon]

moved to Korea and made Everland a part of my personality

[agingerwithaseoul]

a bit of cafe hopping in my favorite neighborhood outside of seoul (youtube)

[cuddlethebear]

It’s different once you have tasted your desires, isn’t it?

[hatsuhotate]

한국

[saphmiu]

gentle retro cyberpunk in seoul by @estalavistaaa

[studykac]

🧋06.25.23 🧋

Finally got back to my favourite local café for some studying! I've had tonsillitis for the past week so I've just been comfort (/low-key hate) reading Julia Quinn books since last sunday.

Finished up some practice questions, caught up on my daily vocab in one of my books (still haven't started making the flashcards I specifically bought for this month though rip ㅠㅠ).

Today's audiobook read was Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey and I had some fun with it! It was super short which I'm not complaining about and it was a really good introduction to the future western genre! A pretty solid read overall, and I'm interested in picking up more from Gailey in the future!

I also started a new physical read with Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher, and now I want to reread the Iliad lmao.

🎧 Beggin by Maneskin

📚 Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher

[lilpichii]

piece of korea in my hometown 🫰🏻

[momentmort]

[simply-whump]

Oh my gosh!! I'm so excited for you about your trip! I know you won't see this until you get back but I hope it was wonderful :) I'm actually participating in a study abroad to south korea for two weeks in the summer - any tips or recommendations would be so greatly appreciated!

It was wonderful ! Everything I hoped for and more. It made me want to go back as soon as possible.

I hope your trip will be as good as mine. I don't know if you'll stay in Seoul or go to other smaller cities like I did but here are a few things that might be useful to know, from my limited experience there.

A few apps that can be really helpful :

Naver Map : Google maps isn't the best in South Korea so to go around easily, you should download Naver map.

Papago : if you go outside of Seoul, people often don't or barely speak English. So if like me you only know a few words in Korean, you should have this app to communicate easily.

Kakao T : even though there is an extensive transportation system in South Korea, sometimes talking the taxi (which isn't that expensive) is easier. For that, download Kakao T ! If you're in Seoul, be careful, the traffic can be horrible.

Kakao Talk : almost everyone communicate using Kakao Talk so if you want to interact with people and make friends, having a kakao talk account is a must.

A few things I would recommend :

Try all sorts of Korean food, it's so delicious and so cheap (at least compared to where I'm from). If you go outside of Seoul, try to know the local specialties. If you have a local with you, he can point you in the direction of the good stuff, often less touristy. But be careful of the spice level !

Take a break at a coffee shop. There are so many of them everywhere and they're often really nice.

Cars WON'T STOP for you. Be careful when you cross the streets, people drive fast and don't care.

Have a T Money card with you ! This will allow you to travel freely by bus or metro. You can buy one and recharge it at any convenience store and it works in all of South Korea! Also bus driver don't have time to waist so enter fast and get out fast. Never sit in a spot reserved for old or pregnant people and hang on if you're not seated, the ride can sometime be a little rough.

Be sure to have enough cash on you. My card was supposed to work but I had problems with it in lots of places.

If you are in Seoul for your whole stay, try to go elsewhere, even for just a week end. I would recommend Gyeongju, this place was magical.

And lastly have fun and enjoy !

This was a bit long but I hope it can be even just a little bit useful !

[zamisriza-the-resurrection]

I know this is like the fifth GoFundMe I've done but life is hard 😭

I have a glimmer of hope that that will change... For the price of $50,000 🙃

It's for tuition but honestly it's cheaper than American University and offers me more.

If it matters I'm a pansexual panromantic genderfluid Hispanic autistic in a bad home situation

So if you can reblog please thank you 💜

[bardofavon]

it’s a very beautiful country.