Krista vs Korea

...go figure. Jeanette and I went to the Jeju Stone Park (eye roll) to experience a boring jaunt through some old stones. Basically, someone on Jeju thought it would be a good idea to corral all the weird looking stones that can be found throughout the island in one place and call it the Jeju Stone Park. Along with some grave inaccuracies (i.e....

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typical. Just a typical parking spot in Korea. Cars come and go in any direction and just pull over wherever they please. It makes biking around the city a different kind of dangerous. Its almost like a game- you neeeeever know where the car will go, if it will break suddenly, forget to signal, or pull over and park like this. Street or...

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Korean BBQ is...well...amazing. It's the kind of meal that you leave from feeling super satisfied but not stuffed with carbs and over fed. It's all about the meat, really. If you are vegetarian, you could eat BBQ-ed kimchi, which is just phenomenal and tastes wildly different than raw kimchi. I've never ordered it without a Korean present (except one time in Seoul but...

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interesting visor with the cape made me feel like i was on my way to an intergalactic battle  the face of extreme disappointment and defeat An interesting Korean experience: dying your hair. I'm not sure why I thought they would understand or have the same products that we have back home...but they did not and do not. Kevin, my hairdresser, said I couldn't...

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Riding the subway in Seoul- Asian selfie in full effect a mere two days in. Initially, I didn't want to start a blog about my time in South Korea. Mainly because I felt like my closest friends would hear what I have to say about the experience, but also because it's been done. Overdone. But alas, here I am. I don't want to...

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