Korea House

A Whole Lot of Han at the Korea House

Han.  A simple word that has had many meanings over the years in the Land of the Morning Calm. There’s the Han River.  The family surname.  The shortened form of hana, one.  Even Korea’s name in Korean is Hanguk.  And that famous Korean concept of powerful sadness, which has no literal translation in English and …

Happy Chuseok from Namsangol Hanok Village

After returning to work after a week-long adventure-packed week abroad, I knew that I would be programming rather than teaching, as per the new rule created from the increased swine flu paranoia. Considering programming consists of anything from writing lesson plans to coloring Halloween posters to making balloon animals, I was completely okay with this. …