Buhay sa Korea

y son and I arrived in Korea on Sunday night. We had an exhausting 15-hour trip from Los Angeles via Korean Air with a layover at Narita Airport in Japan. I’m still “hilong talilong” or disorriented from jetlag. I’d sleep at 7 or 8 in the evening and wake up at 4 in the morning!
Anyway, [...]

Of my eldest brother’s four children, only his eldest (daughter) has not been to the United States. Her visa is still being processed. In fact, my brother only received the AOS bill in the middle of the week. He took care of it online. While we were talking about the possibility of his daughter coming [...]

y son and I arrived in California, which is supposed to be sunny, on Monday morning PST. I had to wait for about an hour at the airport for my nephew. For four days, we (or shall I say I) opted to stay indoors as the weather has been quite gloomy. It even rained this [...]

I had an interview with Prof. Michael Meyers, the new host of “Soul of Asia” on tbs, yesterday and I talked about two organizations that women married to Koreans can join. One is ISKA, International Spouses of Koreans Associations, and the other is the Married Women Migrants Human Rights Center. I joined the former more [...]

There was a 민방위훈련 (min-bang-ui-hun-nyeon) or civil defense drill yesterday, March 16 from 2 to 220PM. I heard about the scheduled drill last Saturday afternoon while we were listening to tbs eFM on our drive to Incheon Airport. I made it a point to put it on my cellphone’s reminder. I don’t want be caught [...]

When I first came here, the only English radio station I could listen to was AFN’s Eagle FM (102.7) for the US Armed Forces in Korea. Their signal isn’t as strong now compared to before though. Late last year, an all-English radio station started broadcasting in Seoul via 101.3 – tbs eFM. The main target [...]

was supposed to join friends Wendy, Jasmin and Kaytee on a tour of Nami Island aka Naminara Republic last Saturday. Unfortunately, I got a really bad headache that day. It would’ve been my fifth time to visit the island that became famous through the Korean drama “Winter Sonata”, which starred Bae Yong Joon and [...]