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FREE! Fall Middle School Weekend Camp Retreat
Saturday OCTOBER 28th 09:00 – Sunday October 29th 17:00 THIS CAMP IS OVER NIGHT Registration Deadline: October 10th Apply Here: https://southofseoul.wufoo.eu/forms/m1mjfs4a0k93kt8/ We told you guys we were working on another camp with the Pyeongtaek Youth Center and here it is! The planning and execution of the camp is once again headed up by the fabulous Mr. Kim and Ms. Eunice. These two have been phenomenal to work with. (Click here to read more about the first summer camp) This middle school focused camp will consist of fifteen foreign students and fifteen…
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How to use the SOS app with Kakao Taxi
One of the best things to happen to Korea is Kakao Navi. If you aren’t using it, stop now and go download it. It’s an app for calling taxis almost anywhere you can find yourself. YES, it’s in Korean. DO NOT let this stop you. Honestly, this is one of the most important apps you can learn to use in Korean and 10 Magazine has done an awesome job showing you how to use it. CLICK HERE to learn more and get it setup on your phone. Slow down, get focused…
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How to Use Our App Listings
Our listings are filled with useful information depending on topic and availability. It’s surprising how much you can find poking around one of our volunteer created listings. Let’s go on tour together to see what’s up. Since we all need to eat, let’s look at one of the 40+ Pyeongtaek grocery stores we have listed. To get started let’s enter the Pyeongtaek Area Directory, select Spotlight: Businesses and Groceries & Specialty Foods. The listing we are looking at today is a popular store located near Camp Humphreys. We sort by…
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New Registration System for Fall Bus Trips
UPDATED: April 30th 2018 to include any changes In 2017 we took a big leap of faith and launched our ride-share Pyeongtaek Beach Bus trips. We cobbled together the best reservation system we could at the time and spent the summer making notes on how to improve. We then sat around with scratching our heads and asking ourselves, “How will we make these changes with zero budget for expensive trip planning systems while also not putting too much of a burden on our volunteers?” These are the questions we struggle…
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Adventure Preparedness: Buying A Scooter
Buying transportation sucks but adventures are critical. It also sucks 100 times more when you don’t know how it works or where to get started. When it sucks that much it’s easy to take the path of least resistance and just stay home and not do anything. DON’T DO IT!!! Adventuring in Korea is too awesome to be missed. Over the next few weeks we are going to try and demystify buying transportation in Pyeongtaek, or at least make it seem a little less scary. First on the menu, how…
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5 Pho-king Fabulous Asian Restaurants
One of the benefits of living in an area filled with foreign immigrants and expats is having a selection of wonderful – what we call – expat home base restaurants. The places were expats from a particular area of the world gather to build community and feast on flavors we miss from home. This is a list of our top fav Asian expat hangouts. Oh, and they aren’t all about pho, the title just made us laugh on a day we needed a good chuckle. 1. Pho Nho Vietnamese Pyeongtaek…
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We Go Together Summer /Fall Camp
South of Seoul is excited to announce the first FREE Pyeongtaek City Youth Center camp for Korean and American students! We have been working for months with the Pyeongtaek Youth Center to create this (and another upcoming) FREE summer camp for students this year. We also added Sig Flips the Table as our personal adviser in order to make sure military parent’s needs and opinions were well represented in the organization process. Everyone’s efforts paid off. The first camp will be held is for grade school students (birth years 2006, 2007,…
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Useful Phrases for Tour Bus Drivers
In Korea one of the coolest things is how easy it is to charter a bus and do a group tour. It’s crazy affordable. Usually between 300-550,000 won depending on the size of your bus (24 or 44 people) and where you are going. The one hurdle that foreigners will have when booking a bus is communicating easily with the driver. Since we are all about empowering everyone to get out and enjoy all that Korea has to offer, here is a set of phrases to help you feel confident…
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5 Best Bars in Bijeon2dong
Bijeon2dong is on the rise and is now easily the hippest place in the city to go out on a Friday night. New bars are opening here each month and right now these are the top 5 sexiest choices for grabbing beverage in Bijeon2dong. All of these locations have been entered into the app and await your reviews. We don’t include the addresses in the blog because addresses in this area don’t work correctly yet, especial in Google. Instead we have WAZE Navigation that will open directly from the app…
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One Heart Spring Fest 2017 – Stitch & Bitch
This weekend we are going to be at the One Heart Spring Fest in Anjeongri. It turns out that this festival is actually like two festivals in one. The Spring Fest is put on by the US Military and it happens on the US Military Base (see information below to see what you need to access this section of the festival). The One Heart Fest is organized by the City of Pyeongtaek and PIEF. Camp Humphreys Spring Fest 12 – 6pm Inside the Gate -Saturday, May 20: SpringFest 2017 from…
