Ajosshis in the Park

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If you couldn't tell from our last video on Korean Foot Massages, we just bought a new camera, a Canon 550d (also known as a T2i). Woohoo! Anyhow, we were feeling artsy-fartsy with this new camera of ours, so we decided to make a video of something we've always found awesome: old Korean guys playing chess games in the park. They're cold, but they bundle up and gather round to play games that we don't know the rules to (or even the names of!). What we find most interesting is how so many people gather round to watch them play; there are more spectators than players. We decided to be among the spectators. So click on the picture here to watch Ajosshis in the Park. If any of you know anything about these games, please let us know. We think it's like chess, with kings and queens and pawns, but the pieces are different. The game in black and white we haven't a clue about.

Korean Foot Massages

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For one of our anniversaries back in Canada, we went for a couple's massage. It was wonderful, luxurious, and expensive, but relaxing. Last year for White Day, Simon planned to have another couple's massage as a part of his secret. The massage was just as expensive and luxurious, but not wonderful or relaxing at all. It was painful: purely, miserably painful. We thought that perhaps the place we went to was a bad one, so we went to another in hopes of finding a massage that we'll like, only this time we went for a foot massage. How did it go? Was it any different? Well, check out our video on Korean Foot Massages and you'll find out. If any of you have had similar experiences, or know of a massage place in Korea that gives great massages that won't hurt like hell, please let us know. And we're talking about family friendly massages here, so don't get cute!

Another Korean Middle School Lesson

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Now that March is around the new school year has started, and with it has come a lot of new English Conversation Teachers. Hopefully you've seen our ESL Resources already so you can have an idea of what it's like to teach in Korea. The videos we made from our classes, though, make it seem as if the lessons require huge amounts of prep time. This isn't always the case. So what we've done is uploaded another lesson plan, only this time it's really easy to prepare. In fact, it should take you probably ten minutes to prepare this lesson, and it will have your students speaking in and listening to English for the entire class. Check the new video of Simon Teaching in a Korean Middle School, and if you like it, download it in either Mac or PC format. If you do decide to use it, please let us know how it works!

Korean Custom Made Fashion

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Simon's sick of shopping for clothes in Korea. They never fit, EVER! Korea's got a great sense of fashion, but none of it fits him. To buy clothes, he'd wait until he went back to Canada over the summer and filled his suitcase there, but not anymore. We've discovered something much better. If you're a big guy and need to get some good looking, professional attire, something you can wear to school as a teacher and looked damned snazzy, then should your shirts made proper, and all for a really reasonable price. For the full run down on getting your shirts custom made, click on the picture above to learn How to Dress Like a Pro in Korea. By the way, the place Simon gets his shirts done is Dainty in Garosu-Gil. Here's their business card, and here are directions to their store. Also, if you know of any other tailors that you swear by, please let us know!