What I think about the Philippines so far Less than a week I’ve been in the Philippines, I have very complex opinions about this country. Since day 1, this country showed me extreme good and bad at the same time. I’m not sure how I feel about it in general, but I want to share […]
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I’m leaving! I’m leaving again. After getting back my Koreanness for last two months, I think it’s time to embark another adventure. It wasn’t an easy process for me, coming back here. I was more worried than happy before landed in Incheon in fourteen months. But now? I’m happy I came back.
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“You have such a nice skin!” A compliment I’ve heard quite often, and don’t mind hearing it. I agree with the general statement: Koreans do have fairly good skins. Meaning, smooth, clean and has no trouble. And I think I know why. Well I need to thank my mum because I was born this way,
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When I asked a security guy at LAX where the security gate was he busted out with, “Oppa Gangnam Style”. I got private messages, Tweets and Facebook comments asking about Gangnam Style on multiple occasions. One girl even told me that she was happy that she knew someone from the country of Gangnam Style. Psy
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Fact: China is beautiful My encounter with China was complicated, very. The three months in China was like riding a roller coaster for three months. I wrote about several unfortunate incidents in China (including Asian-Asian racism: Why Chinese people hate me, Top 5 worst travel moments), and also chanted how beautiful this country was (Tiger
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Big News! As I’ve announced through my newsletter, I’m going back to Korea! I left Seoul on Dec 6th 2011 and haven’t return to Korea since. My first destination was Hong Kong. For the last 14 months I’ve traveled to 23 countries (20 new, 3 revisited) jumping from Asia to North America to
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Photos from Pingle Ancient Town As a part of Tea-horse Ancient Road, Pingle ancient town (平乐古镇) was an important town on the ancient South Sichuan Road and South Silk Road since more than 2000 years ago. This peaceful riverside town is a popular destination to Chinese artists and painters. Beautiful scenery that made by old bridges above
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Hiking to the active volcano in Indonesia Have you ever thought about visiting the active volcano? The volcano is the living evidence of the life of the earth. As a science-minded person, I was always wondering what would it like to see the exploding lava from the mountain top. Maybe that’s why places like Hawaii
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Introducing Borobudur Temple Borobudur temple is a Buddhist temple in central Java. The name Borobudur is from the Sanskrit words biara and bidur. Biara means temple and bidur means hill; temple on the hill, it means. It was built around the end of the eighth century but it took three generations to finish it. During
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As traveling two weeks in Indonesia, I got to see the major attractions around the country. While I was visiting nine different islands, these were the first impression I got. Have you been to Indonesia? What do you think? There are many islands Roughly, there are 17,000 islands Indonesia. 8,844 of them have been
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