#study in seoul

[yang-jin-seo]

Day 41 🌸

2024.4.13

*카페에서 공부

[tea-tuesday]

travel tales: seoul, south korea

[apolline-lucy]

🌱 2024.03.17

current favourite writing spot—cafe Pivot in Seoul—with an oat latte & blueberry earl grey tart + latest book I got ; MYTHOLOGY by Edith Hamilton—illustrated edition!!

[studykac]

☔07.16.23☔

Getting a lot of use out of the umbrella emoji recently 😐 went to the cutest book café in Mapo-gu with my friend today to plan a trip to Busan! Then I met up with some carat friends at the restaurant that Seventeen filmed their Dingo Tipsy Live in last year ♥️

🎧 Cheers by Seventeen

📖 Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher

[sofialisbon]

[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.

[a-pop-of-korean]

Semester in SK: Riding the Seoul Subway

안녕하세요 여러분! Here’s another post from my Instagram--this one is about how to ride the subway in Seoul! The subway is a convenient and efficient way to get just about anywhere in Seoul, so knowing how to use the system is a must. I hope this is helpful! 화이팅!

Also, the third picture is supposed to be a video of how to swipe into the subway station, but I couldn’t upload it here, so be sure to check it out on my Instagram!

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[anxious-glow]

2024.02.10.

I finished my part of the essay and told my partner to cross check it so we can edit it together in the following days. I want to enjoy the holidays by not writing cover letters since the companies aren’t working at the moment anyways. So I spent the rest of the day, reading my book that my professor gave me. I actually hate it and I think it’s boring. I hate novels and he knows it which is why he bought me fiction books so I can gain appreciation for them, but I still don’t like them. After this book, I have one more thick book I have to read just because he bought it for me and I didn’t wanna let him down.

Something funny happened today. I was cross reading my partner’s part of the essay and skimmed through her bibliography. I saw a familiar name in the references, and apparently my partner cited an article written by my sister! What a coincidence! Even I didn’t know that she had published an article. What are the odds of my partner, finding an article written by my sister on international relations without me knowing ?I was so surprised- it felt like destiny. I hope to publish an article of my own someday, someday soon.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Hyundai Tutti Concept, 1999. Presented at the Seoul Auto Show, a tiny pick-up prototype based on the Hyundai Atos that didn't make it beyond prototype stage

[glindaupland]

some dong seok phantoms for practice 🌹🖤

[yang-jin-seo]

Day 7 📚

2022.12.28

*서점 가기

[tea-tuesday]

travel tales: stockholm, sweden

[apolline-lucy]

2024.03.25✨

menu for a productive day:

- 1 hour walk ✔️

- finish reading Modern Divination ✔️

- write 1k words for my wip - ongoing

- post about my sapphic fantasy novel THE SILVER BIRDS ✔️

- journaling ✔️

- medical check up ✔️

how’s Monday treating you? 🤎

[thelandofsadsongs]

Hiii everyone!

As some of you may know, I got the opportunity to come to Seoul to study Korean earlier this year. I finished Level 1, and I LOVE the Korean language and culture. I'm now hoping to study two more terms (Level 2 and 3) to help me with getting my dream job, as it requires Korean skills.

If you're in a situation that allows you to donate even a small amount, I'll be forever grateful. And if you can't, I'd be extremely happy if you could share this post :)

Thank you and much love to you all <3

[han-kan-of-study]

My desk layout! The plants are essential to me maintaining any sense of sanity :)

[teachingtales]

About the Halloween Crowd Crush in the Itaewon District of Seoul, South Korea

The information here is to provide some clarification on crowd crushes, and some specific information on what happened in Itaewon. First, some general information:

The circled parts are very important: uneven ground + narrow passageway.

Let’s compare this to another crowd crush that happened in April of 2021 in Israel:

Again, we have a situation with a narrow passageway and a sloping floor (a staircase, in this case).

There is an idea that people will file through an area without much incident, it’s crowded and slow but it’s otherwise not going to be a problem. After all, if I fall down, I can just stand up again. But in reality, it is a matter of physics…at this density, we almost behave as a liquid. You fall down, and suddenly there are people on top of you.

Being on top of the pile, you cannot easily push yourself off. You can roll, but you’re only rolling across the pile, not off. You’re too high/far for any of the rescue people on the ground to pull you off (to reduce the pressure on lower layers). And you can’t easily push yourself up because people are squishy and squirming, there’s no way to get firm enough “ground” to push off. So you’re stuck trying to rock yourself off of the pile, putting additional pressure and taking more time. This is why rescue workers began pulling at the bottom layers rather than trying to pull/push off the top layers.

My students have been haunted by the images (not shown here, but shared on social media). Those images may haunt them for years, maybe forever. What we can do is use those bad images to remind us to be safe. It’s not their fault, of course. The victims had no idea this would happen…most people don’t understand crowd crushes. I know about them because of my fields of study. So it’s not to say it was their fault. But from this lesson, we can stop others from being in this situation. We can pause and go the long way, or wait a few more minutes to let the crowd dissipate, and we will be safer and the crowd will also be safer.

Unfortunately, VERY unfortunately, safety lessons are “hard learned”. It means that we only pay attention after a tragedy. THEN we think about safety.

It’s hard to deal with because this was something no one expected. It was an accident. And I think people are upset because they “should have” expected it. But really, only people like me who had to study this stuff, we know it’s a reasonable expectation but most people don’t. It’s not their fault; but now we are all very aware of it at the same time. Maybe now politicians can understand this risk better.

We have to remember there is no one to blame. Some people want to place blame; I think it helps them feel safe. If they can blame X, then avoid X, they believe they are safe from this type of harm. They blame “being drunk” or they blame “pushing”, or “they were too young to know better.” But really, it is not that. It was pure physics. A lot of people in a narrow alley + uneven/sloping ground + one or two people tripping and falling = a “wave” of people falling, too. It’s not about age, drunkenness, etc.

And that’s hardest for people to accept. We want to think we have control over our lives, over our safety. We want to think we can be safe if only we do XYZ. But a lot of life is just luck. And this makes people feel really uncomfortable, so they get upset and try to blame someone or something.

I think that’s why these tragedies are burned into our memories so hard, because not only are they devastating and tragic as a human loss, but they are also a very horrifying reminder that any of us or our loved ones can just…not be here tomorrow.

We do the most we can, and have to accept that it’s the most we can do.

If you need someone to talk to, my inbox is always open.