Bright shades of blue, green and clear make these beaches popular filming locations for many popular Korean dramas, and just as popular a media destination for us to take pictures.
Korea’s “Hawaii,” Jeju Island
The Dos and Don’ts of a Korean Roadtrip
This past week I went on a 7-day road-trip across the penisula, hitting up major cities like Sokcho, Gyeongju, Busan, and Jeonju among some other smaller attractions. Despite warnings of heavy traffic and long drives during the Chuseok holiday, I would say we did relatively well in terms of seeing…
Korea’s “Hawaii,” Jeju Island
Recently, when I’ve flown in airplanes it’s been to go to a different country. This past weekend however, I actually took a domestic flight. The destination was Jeju, an island off the southern coast of South Korea. Although, despite it being the same country, the place itself felt totally different.…
Korean Baseball- Go Wyverns!
Even being from Boston, I have only been to a handful of baseball games in my life. I’ve always enjoyed going though because of the atmosphere of a game; peanuts, popcorn, crowded stands, etc. But the difference between a Korean baseball game and an American one (not the players as…
Hwaseong Fortress, Suwon
Most of the time, foreigners come to Korea to visit Seoul. They want to take in the marvels of Gyeongbokgung palace and get a birds eye view of the city from the top of Namsan Seoul Tower. Ironically, even though I have been to both of these places, I am…
City Tycoon, Songdo
The Songdo Province of Incheon, South Korea is like a plot from ZooTycoon;”CityTycoon.” Everything is so particular, mapped out, fresh. We walked by a wilting flower bed today in the middle of the big park in the central part of the city. I hadn’t seen any gardeners around and thereforeI…
Heungryunsa Temple, Incheon
Sometimes it’s isolating living in Songdo. The endlessly high apartment complexes. The way the trees lines up in perfect rows. The wide streets that are just a little too large for the number of cars on them. It never made sense to me why they designed an eco-friendly smart city…
Wolmido: A Korean Carnival Boardwalk
Growing up, a trip to the seashore boardwalk town meant fudge shops and salt water taffy. My sister and I would climb on the rocks, jumping from one to another hoping to not fall as we slowly made our way to a lighthouse ending. In Korea, boardwalk towns have small…
Five things Korean Food in the States couldn’t have prepared me for
It’s officially been one month since I first landed here in South Korea, and what better way to celebrate then by writing a post about one of my favorite things: FOOD. Before traveling overseas, one of my favorite places to go out to eat was a Korean restaurant in Maynard,…
Visiting the Yellow Sea
I’ve swam in freezing cold water before. I’ve also swam in ridiculously hot water before. Some bodies of water have been salty, some have been fresh. Some have been crystal clear like the water off the coast of Hawaii, and others have had pools of cloud. But there was something…
Olympics Full Circle
I started figure skating because of the 2002 Olympics. I was watching Sasha Cohen skate a firey routine, mesmerized by her graceful spirals and abstract spins, and I knew in that moment that I was going to skate. I wanted to be just like her. Naturally, when I told my…
What is Chuseok?
Next week is the Korean holiday of Chuseok, a time for family and food and eating songpyeong, which are traditional Korean rice cakes. My Korean friends keep telling me that the closest comparison they can think of for this holiday is American Thanksgiving, and though this comparison helps set the…
Revealed Travel 