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Culture & Community, Culture Shock Tips, Education, Home Life & Maintenance Tips, Physical & Mental Wellness, Public Health
Managing the Korean Emergency Alerts
Updated: 2024/12 South Korea has a Public Alert Service for notifying citizens of important information. The following blog post explores more about the system and offers support for dealing with the smartphone sounds and the language barrier. Listen to the BlogCast Don’t want to read? Listen to the South of Seoul BlogCast which provides accessible content through the use of AI technology. We don’t have time to read each article but we do our best to make more of our content accessible. If you would like to join our Accessibility Team apply to…
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Embracing Community In Times of Isolation & Crisis
For the last month, South of Seoul volunteers have been asking questions and working quietly but consistently to support our community during Coronavirus. Within our organization, we do not lead from a place of fear. Instead, we lean into the power of our community and the people that live in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Our unique community includes strong and: 1) resilient Koreans, 2) confident US military community, 3) scrappy ex-pats. We are grateful to face this economic and health crisis (Coronavirus) with a group that understands the value of sacrifice…
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Therapy Options for Expats
Updated: November, 2019 Living abroad is filled with all kinds of stress. There is no way around it and there is no shame it it. Instead of turning to online forums that only feed the insanity, may I recommend therapy as a far more productive option. As a former Social Worker and a current teacher, I wish everyone spent more time in therapy. Mental health is a critical part of well being; like going to the gym or getting a haircut. It’s something to embrace and enjoy on a day…
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3 English Speaking Dentists in Pyeongtaek
Looking for an English-speaking dentist in or near Pyeongtaek? We have a few options to try About Visiting the Dentist in Korea There is rarely a point where going to the dentist is fun, however, it can be downright terrifying in a country where you can’t speak the language. We are extremely lucky in Pyeongtaek because we have a variety of excellent choices. This isn’t even a comprehensive list, it’s simply a list of dentists that our different volunteers have known and liked over the last few years. They are…
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Important Numbers: 119 Emergency Services
Before you have an emergency, you need to know 119 which is emergency services in South Korea. About 119 One of THE most important numbers you need to know while living in South Korea is 119. This is THE number to call in emergencies. In a medical emergency, 119 may automatically detect a caller’s location on either a landline or a cell phone. Then, 119 dispatches ambulances quickly. 119 For Those with No Korean Language Ability In theory, foreigners who contact 119 become directed to a translator from the Korea National…
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Culture & Community, Culture Shock Tips, Education, New Arrival Information, Physical & Mental Wellness
5 Tips for Conquering Culture Shock
Culture Shock isn’t just an English punk band. It’s also a very real thing we all deal with while living abroad. It’s part of the territory and it’s something everyone needs to be very aware of in order to live their best life. It starts out small and builds over time, sometimes ripping through our lives with very painful consequences and other times hiding in the shadows waiting to knock us off course when we least expect it. It can even cause intense depression, destruction of relationships, uuncharacteristic bigotry and racism,…
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Low Carb and KETO In Pyeongtaek
Trying to eat KETO or low-carb in Pyeongtaek or across South Korea? We have some solutions for you! If you eat a ketogenic or low-carb diet, you may be wondering how on earth you can possibly survive in Asia. Isn’t there going to be rice or noodles with every meal? How can I avoid going off plan and still enjoy going out with friends and really experiencing Korean food? In Korea, staying true to low carb can be surprisingly easy with all of the cook-at-your-table BBQ restaurant options. Depending on…
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Top 3 Pyeongtaek Hikes
Did you just move to Pyeongtaek and want to find the top 3 Pyeongtaek hikes? You’ve found the right post. About Hiking in South Korea Some might call hiking Korea’s national sport. It’s a country that loves a good walk outside. Thousands of marked and unmarked hiking trails exist across the country. You can find many marked trails in Naver Maps which includes hiking routes in the maps app. Also, in South Korea, they consider walking trails and hiking trails. Sometimes you might find a Korean hike to simply be…
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Songtan & Seojeongri Recommendation: Y Dental
Business: Y Dental Neighborhood: Songtan In the South of Seoul App search: Y Dental Sometimes we randomly get contacted by a business that finds us online. We don’t always go check them out because we have jobs and lives to live, however, if the business seems to might offer something that our local community needs we go check them out. Since those of us that run and volunteer at South of Seoul do it for the community, karma, to battle boredom, and to keep our job skills relevant it takes…
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Welcome Columbia Dental
Written by Lanae Rivers-Woods, South of Seoul Volunteer Edited by Jessica Lister, South of Seoul Volunteer If you know Sam at Attractive Coffee, you have heard that his aunt is bringing her Seoul dental clinic to Anjeongri. No need to make a big trip to Seoul for dental anymore, it came to us. The new clinic is called Columbia Dental and it’s opening over the top of where Sam’s new coffee shop will be next to Brown Stone Apartments. As you can imagine, he is super excited and asked us…
