Tag: South Korea
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DMZ Visit
Disclaimer: I started writing this a long time ago…. This week South Korea celebrated 광복절 (Gwangbokjeol) on the 15th of August, the date that in 1945 Korea was liberated from 40 years of Japanese occupation. This happened at the end of the Second World War when the Axis forces were defeated. The withdrawal of Japan…
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Haves and Have Nots (Part 2)
So this is part two of my blog “Haves and Have Nots”. Part 1 took a look at just some of the things I have experienced since moving to Korea. Part 2 is a look at the things I haven’t experienced since being here either because I cannot, I dare not, or am yet to…
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For your pleasure
Today my training was interrupted by a trip to the hospital in order to complete a medical for my alien registration card. I was accompanied by one of the operational staff from the school as we travelled by taxi to the ‘hospital’ which I would have called a medical centre, or a Labtest. My completed forms…
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Not your average Friday
As far as days go, yesterday was pretty huge. I submitted the final essay of my degree. Wehoo! I sat the last exam of my degree. Wehoo! As I am confident I’ve done enough to pass I can now say I have completed my degree. After 7 years of on-off study I have a Bachelor…
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The CV is in. Let the constant guard of the phone and email begin.
Today a new phase of waiting starts. After lying fallow for a year and a half my CV was pulled out and polished up to make me look like a promising teaching applicant. Hopefully I was more successful at this than I think I was. There really seems to be far too much admin work,…
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Kiwi to Korea
This week in my Sociology of Work lecture I learnt that a persons career consists not just of the series of jobs a person has in their field of interest that move in a stepwise fashion, but all the jobs a person ever has. At the age of 25 I therefore have had a rather…
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