Reliable, confidential, fast, and accurate | 20+ years of experience
This photo taken outside the Swedish Pavillion at the Expo is just wrong; I had no part in this picture-taking nonsense and it was done without my knowledge or permission.
I've always loved Yeosu; it's a beautiful city on a small peninsula off the southern coast of Korea. (Visit in Google Maps.) So, of course, we definitely had to make the trip down for the Yeosu Expo 2012. For some reason, the event's gotten some bad press, but we were...
The circumference of this fort (Visit in Google Maps) is 1.8 km, which, I'm told, is approximately the same size as Camp Wright in Afghanistan. I'm also told that some people at Camp Wright think their base is super small, but Haemi Fortress was big enough to be used as...
No, sea cucumber is not a vegetable; eaten raw like this, it's a crunchy, sea animal with a rather bland taste. So, to spice it up, this restaurant puts chunks of the raw meat into an icy, vinegary concoction with some real vegetables in it, and then serves it alongside...
In Korean a "li" (or more often spelled "ri") is a distance of about 4/10th of a kilometer. "Malli" in "Mallipo" means 10,000 li's, which emphasizes how long this beach is. The beach up the road is "Cheollipo", meaning 1,000 li's, since it's a bit shorter. And then past that...
This wasn't our first trip to Mallipo. (Visit in Google Maps.) We drove by in 2010 when visiting the Cheollipo Arboretum, and then I spent a few days here last October. Having just returned from the US at the end of last month, I was under some family pressure for...
(Visit in Google Maps.)
As we downsize in the US, my Mom is letting us use an extra room in her house as a base of operations here even though we won't be around very much. We picked a popular Korean color called "hwangto" for the walls. Before: After:
Myunghee drove out to the east coast of Korea a week or so ago for a couple days of R&R alone.
