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PIEF: Traditional School Celebration
Finding a sense of community is one of the most important parts of feeling at home. In our home countries we know how to do that based on habits and cultural rules. We have the usual places we go and the usual things we do. As we move around from town to town we can usually recreate these experiences since we all share a culture and a language. However, when we move abroad all this changes. It becomes harder to find those centralized experiences that bring us together with others.…
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Recommended Air Quality App
We love to be outside and spend most of our time outside, so avoiding smog is important. It’s true. The air quality this year the air quality in Pyeongtaek is the worst we have seen in our seven years here. However, it hasn’t really been cramping our style too much because we have been testing out some handy air quality apps that help keep us headed to the best places to breath. That’s right, you can use your hand phone to avoid the worst air quality. Let’s talk about the…
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Earth Day 2017: Wrap Up
Before we begin, we want to make sure to thank the City of Pyeongtaek for donating the trash bags, PIEF for their consummate support, to PUB 210 for donating a prize and of course Sig Flips the Table who brought this idea to life and brought us all on board with her vision. We look forward to catching the video of the event from On Your Mark World in the near future. When Sig Flips the Table decided to head-up the First (hopefully annual) Earth Day Pyeongtaek we were really excited to…
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Now Booking: Bus to the Daejeon Barefoot Festival
TICKETS: 18,000 won roundtrip Sunday May 14th, 2017 Let’s get our feet dirty and celebrate the coming summer. South of Seoul;s and Bundang Social Club are teaming up to sponsor a bus to the Daejeon Barefoot Festival leaving from Jeongja Station at 7:50 AM and the back side of Pyeongtaek Station at 8:50AM. This is one of South of Seoul’s favorite spring events. The path is stunning and the mud delightful. The festival has a great variety of fun activities, including traditional music, dancing, walking barefoot through tranquil mountains, fun…
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2017 Earth Day Pyeongtaek
Our stretch of road. We are excited to announce that we are supporting the wonderful blogger Sig Flips the Table in presenting Pyeongtaek’s First Annual Earth Day on Saturday April 22nd. The City of Pyeongtaek has been fabulously supportive of this event and will be providing free trash bags to all participants. They can be collected at Pyeongtaek International Exchange Foundation in Paengseong or Songtan. Read Sig’s the full article HERE: http://sigflipsthetable.com/2017/04/10/earth-day-pyeongtaek/ to learn the details and then join a local Earth Day team or sponsor a team of your own. Team…
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Useful Phrases for Pet Owners
Always remember, if you don’t feel comfortable speaking, you can simply show the server your phone and point the to the useful phrases for pet owners that you need. You can also save these images to your phone for emergencies. Although ideally we recommend visiting a vet with strong English skills, we also understand that this is often impossible. We also understand that even when a vet speaks English or an expat speaks Korean, misunderstandings still occur. We have compiled this list to empower pet owners to do their best…
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Useful Phrases for the Pantry
Important Western Ingredients and their Hangul doppelgangers.
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What makes a good mom and pop restaurant?
This meal was filled with 정 and deliciousness. Recently I was asked this questions, “What makes a good mom & pop restaurant in Korea?” When I first arrived here it was one of the most perplexing things for me and I never thought I would ever be good at it. Everything looked the same and I couldn’t deduce what was good and what was bad. I felt helpless when it came time to pick a place to eat. My solution, just start walking into any place I saw and just…
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Pyeongtaek Summer Beach Bus Details & Dates
Updated: Click Here for Updated 2018 Blog We are really SUPER excited about offering buses, leaving on select Saturdays, headed to beaches South West of Pyeongtaek. Bus travel is wonderful because you don’t have to stress about traffic, worry about driving home tired, drinking beer, etc. They are also surprisingly affordable here so it’s high time we gave this a try. The beaches where we are going are far more remote than most you will visit in Korea so they offer way more peace and relaxation than places like Busan. …
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Useful Korean Phrases for Parents & Schools
Korean daycare staff expects IMMEDIATE responses to any text information. It’s a Korean cultural standard to respond within 10 minutes to messages involving children. At least take the time to explain your situation. South of Seoul created a list of common responses parents can use when communicating with schools: English Korean (name) will be late to school(00:00). (name) will be late to school(00:00). (name) will be late to school(00:00). (name)은 학교에 늦을 거예요(00:00). (name) will not go to school today. (name)은 오늘 학교에 가지 않을 거예요. I will come at…
