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Lauren in South Korea
Lauren Clark is a South African living and working in Seoul, South Korea as an English teacher. “I have been in Seoul for about two years, and despite many humorous incidents of miscommunication and inadvertent faux-pauxs on my part, this is the most fun I’ve had since varsity!”
The one about being an outsider
A few days ago, the lovely editor of SA PROMO Magazine sent me the blurb for this month’s article request. In a nutshell, 'What would it take for you to come home / what’s stopping you from coming home?'
Immediately, I started banging away on my keyboard for about 15 seconds before I came to a grinding halt. Whoa-f**ken-whoa… this is a heavy question and a hell of a hard one to answer. So I have been stewi ...
Learning to live with Seoul's snow and cold winters
So here is part three of my quest to educate South Africans and other readers about this fantastic country of Korea I now call home. Today’s snowfall has inspired this piece…
South Africa has the best weather in the world. I never appreciated it until I experienced my first winter here 08/09. If it weren’t for my impending trip to Bali that March I would have gone home in a flash. I start work at 7am and ...
The lunar new year is near
Part two of my quest to educate South Africans, and other readers, about this fantastic country which I now call home will be about the upcoming lunar new year (known to Westerners as the Chinese New Year). But first, I want to give a recent example of why teaching English can be a truly entertaining experience… You really can’t make this stuff up!
I said to a student, “Give me an example of something tha ...
ROK'ing it out - life in Seoul
Lauren Clark is a South African living and working in Seoul, South Korea as an English teacher. “I have been in Seoul for about two years, and despite many humorous incidents of miscommunication and inadvertent faux-pauxs on my part, this is the most fun I’ve had since varsity!”
As more and more South Africans consider coming to Korea to teach English, through SA PROMO, I wish to to inform prospective t ...
