The American Misconceptions from Back Home After returning home from teaching in Korea for four years, I’ve fielded a few questions from friends and family. I appreciate the honest questions and curiosity. Unfortunately, this has not been my common experience when out mingling or in the workplace. Once people learned I lived overseas, they were typically more interested in informing…
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Dating Expats in Korea: Advice from Someone Who Got Lucky
Part 2 of 3 The Good I was not supposed to meet her like this, not while I was still in love with with someone else. Plus, my shirt read, “I’ll flex for food.” Yet, here she was, up close and personal. She’s dancing with me to what must be the worst electronic music I’ve heard in…
Date a Girl Who Stays at Home
If you ever listen to advice on dating, never accept advice by someone telling you whom you should date. Recently, I read an article suggesting girls should date a boy who travels. This post was well written and romantically inspired, but outrageously dumb. Yet, it struck a worldwide chord of nostalgia with any girl who…
Being Single in Korea: Expat Advice For Dating from Someone with no Success.
Lame Advice Regarding Dating Do you ever get bad advice about dating? You know, the advice that is normally provided by older people or your really attractive friends who effortlessly transition from one relationship to the next. It’s the crap that sounds good, but doesn’t make you feel any better. “Love will find you when you’re…
The Myth of White Guys and Asian Girls
Besides losing my hair, being a white guy is another topic that I am fully qualified to discuss. You see, since my lowly birth, I’ve been a white guy. I’m approaching 30 years of life on this multi-colored planet with the majority of my experiences derived from being a white man. Yet, the misconceptions about…
10 Things I Hate about Korea
In honor of the announcement of a sequel to 10 Things I Hate About You(I think this movie is a bad idea), I decided it was only fitting to release a 10 Things I Hate About Living in South Korea. Before I begin, let me clarify that this is a joke. I don’t hate living…
