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Mostly Harmless 4 Sep 2012 | 06:26 pm
When I was tentatively asked to move from working part-time to full-time at Busan International Foreign School back in February – a job I finally began last week – I understood that as part of this my...
Bananaman 13 Aug 2012 | 10:26 pm
When I started writing about my experiences here there were only two other foreigners writing blogs in Busan as far as I'm aware and so it enjoyed a level of mild popularity by virtue of absence of ch...
Rogue Trader 12 Aug 2012 | 06:59 pm
When I worked as a financial trader, people used to ask me from time to time about the viability of trading in Korea, and I tried to offer some polite ad-hoc advice elsewhere but I never really brough...
Under Siege: Dirty and Smelly and Fusion Babies 11 Aug 2012 | 10:43 pm
"I'm not just saying this because you’re related to me, but I used to think that all foreigners were dirty and smelly... but you're not." - a close relative who I am not permitted to name by title unt...
Under Siege: Come On! Come On! 14 Jun 2012 | 09:02 pm
I’m alone in the apartment and receive a call from an unknown number on my mobile. I don’t answer it because my son has only slept 30 minutes all morning, he’s just woken up, and I’m desperate to get ...
Under Siege: Racial Abuse on a Bus 29 May 2012 | 11:04 pm
So I promised to tell you the racial abuse on the bus story. It happened two days after I’d been kicked out of a taxi when the driver saw I was a foreigner. It wasn't a good week for me in Korea. I w...
Under Siege: Get Out of My Taxi! 22 May 2012 | 01:03 pm
I remember that it was cold and raining very heavily that morning. So heavily, that when the taxi finally pulled up outside the the last station before I headed out into the wilderness towards Gijang,...
Under Siege: Korean Man 15 May 2012 | 02:28 am
My wife and I were waiting for an elevator when a little girl next to us, she must have been all of about six years old, said, ‘waegug-saram... anyoung’. ‘Anyoung’. ‘Anyoung waegug-saram’. Foreigner.....
20 Minutes 11 May 2012 | 05:18 am
When I first lived in Korea I barely really lived in it at all. I stayed in my apartment trading the international financial markets, and when I ventured out – largely at the weekend on chaperoned tri...
Full Frontal 7 May 2012 | 11:22 pm
Around six months ago Korean Brother went to a nightclub and related the events that shocked him to my wife the next morning. Apparently several years ago during happier economic times when you went ...
