EXPAT LIFE
categoryTravelers Beware: Serial Scammer on the Loose and Doing Business
By Iwazaru If you’re planning on travelling this winter pay very close attention to whom that travel agent is claiming...
Zenith Travel Scam Artist Still Scamming Expats out of Cash
By Iwazaru With the reported arrest of "Wystan" Wan-koo Kang in October, many thought that justice had been served. Zenith...
Expat Hell: The Coping Mechanisms of Expats
By The Expat I don’t like or dislike the entire "Korea Experience." That is to say, I’m not in love...
Neighborhood Review: Do you remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Sinchon?
By Mizaru Part 1 I’m in Love with modern moonlight And the neon when it’s cold outside I’m in love...
Getting My Bipolar Brother out of Korea
By Mel Joyce “If any of [Joe]'s relatives are reading this page, please contact me. I am one of his...
Supreme Court of Korea Dismisses Pvt. Andre Fisher’s Final Appeal Without Hearing
By John M. Rodgers Following five months of investigation into the circumstances surrounding PVT Fisher's case including but not limited...
Stepping into the Unknown: Danger, Generosity and the Buddhist Mind on the Wonhyo Pilgrimage (Podcast)
By Iwazaru Seven full days into the more than 400 kilometer pilgrimage across the Korean peninsula in an attempt to...
A Korean Orphanage and a Killed Story
Editor's note: Over the past few months 3WM was in contact with a volunteer at an Korean orphanage who offered...
Expat English Teachers in Seoul Public Schools to be Axed en Masse
By Iwazaru Over recent years the growing trend in Korea's ESL education has pointed toward a preference for Korean English...
Expats Begin Pilgrimage Across Korea in Footsteps of 7th Century Monk
By Iwazaru The pilgrimage began in the southeast Korean city of Gyeongju and will end, if all goes well, in...
The New ‘Shanghaied’ (and it isn’t all that bad)
By Jake Reed Six years after first moving to Asia and I find myself becoming lazy. Lazy in my desire...
In the Footsteps of Wonhyo — A 21st Century Pilgrimage
By Simon Phillips On December 4, a motley crew of academics, explorers, and journalists will pioneer a journey which has...
Branding Korea! How about Culture Shock Day with Mannam? (Pt. 2)
By Kyla Polanski Toward the end of the event we were directed through hundreds of bowing and cheering people that...
Reflections on the Korean Experience from Phnom Penh Part 2– Haunted by the Ghosts
By HBCTravis Leaving a comfortable if scrambled life for one of uncertainty is never easy. All the money had been...
‘The Dog Farm’: A Novel about Life in Korea by David S. Wills
By 3WM For thousands of young Westerners, South Korea is an escape from reality. It is a place where money...