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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…
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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…
