Sometimes it takes me a while (literally, years) to blog about the places we’ve been, and I hate that because so many memories, the insignificant yet special memories I love so…
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About a month after appearing in KTX magazine, I was asked to be in a short promotional video highlighting some of the most notable tourist spots in Daegu. The theme of…
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In early September of last year, I was photographed for a feature in KTX Magazine, the travel magazine of the Korean high speed rail line. The concept for the feature would…
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Bake Cheese Tart, a bakery that originated in Hokkaido, Japan, recently opened with much anticipation (by me, anyway) at the new Shinsegae Mall in Daegu. Bake, like many Japanese specialty food…
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Our tiny Seoul apartment, located about 30 floors up, came with a view of the city against a backdrop of mountains. The space was just big enough to fit a bed, a…
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Our Seoul café hopping continued in Mangwon with a visit to Coffee Conhas, a portmanteau structure that combined the former residential building’s concrete-walled building with a stack of re-purposed shipping containers. The mix of…
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We recently read an article about how Mangwon was “becoming Seoul’s hippest neighborhoods,” so while in Seoul, we made sure to carve out a day specifically dedicated to cafe hopping. The first cafe…
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Since moving to Korea we have only gone out for brunch a handful of times. Not because restaurants don’t offer brunch (many do) and not because brunch isn’t good here (it…
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While in Seoul, we stayed in the un-trendy, (former) blue-collar part of Mapo-gu, right next to “Mapo BBQ Alley” which is an area known for its Korean bbq, and in particular,…