In life, there are some things that simply cannot be expressed in words. Thankfully, today’s technology gives us the resources to go beyond using simple prose to communicate. Skype, for instance, allows real-time video messaging with friends and loved ones at the click of a button from anywhere in the world. Such an invention has …
Month: February 2011
I don’t consider myself a high maintenance kind of girl when it comes to most things, but if there is one thing that makes me cringe, it is the seemingly medieval plumbing fixture known to the Westerner as the squatty potty. These waste receptacles are not unique to Korea and can be found all over …
Global warming and climate change are issues that we hear about everyday. It seems that we are constantly bombarded with suggestions on how to change our lifestyles so that we can help the environment by decreasing our carbon footprint. Al Gore has no doubt instilled fear into all of our minds, what with predictions of …
Seeing as Korea is an Asian country, most might assume that its people’s drink of choice would be tea. That may have been true in the past, but in the late 1800s, King Gojong was introduced to coffee by the Russians and was quick to start importing the stuff into Korea. Since then, its people …