• I Purple You

    Korea isn’t just a very densely populated country, it also seems to have the highest density of ‘photo zones’ in the world. If your city, beach, museum or park doesn’t have its name in big, colorful, 3D letters somewhere, it doesn’t exist. Cartoonish mascots are everywhere. Heart-shaped benches and insta-swings are never far away. Koreans […]

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  • From Incheon to Busan

    Six years ago we were also in South Korea for a few weeks. In the meantime, after having spent a few days in the (giant) cities of Incheon and Seoul, we have started a road trip across the peninsula. The first experiences are actually exactly the same as back then (see our blog post then): […]

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  • Confusionism

    South Korea is the country of the chaebol, the huge business conglomerates. A number of these are well known: Hyundai, Samsung and Lucky Goldstar (LG). These are gigantic corporations that are active on many markets, from cars to electronics and shipbuilding to chemicals. Hyundai has their own department stores, dental clinics, hotels and gas stations. […]

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  • Oppa! More than 121.000 restaurants

    According to Erwin you can tell how civilized a country is by the cleanliness of its public toilets and the way pedestrians are treated on zebra crossings: are they safe or will they be run over? Personally I prefer to measure civilization by the number of coffee shops in a country (of the actual coffee […]

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