After everyone met up again we took the bus to Sokcho Jungang Market, or the Sokcho Fish Market. We weren't given a lot of time, just enough for the majority of my coworkers to all get boxes and boxes of the specialty, a type 닭강정 (dakgangjeong). You'd think at a fish market my coworkers would have [...]
There was only one thing on our schedule were you could pick what you wanted to do. After breakfast we were given the option of fishing, canoing, boating, kayaking or visiting Naksansa. I picked Naksansa and after some initial confusion because it wasn't on my schedule I made my way with about ten or so [...]
After dinner we started the mandatory 노래방 (noribang) or karaoke. I don't mind singing, by myself or with friends, but I don't like standing up in front of people with a microphone and singing. There's no avoiding it though, when your boss takes you by the hand up 3 flights of stairs to the room the [...]
On our party bus to Yangyang we stopped by Baekdamsa, a Buddhist temple in Inje. Baekdamsa temple is open from sunrise to sunset all year round and offers temple stays. The temple was built between 590-658 and has burned down several times. It's a pretty but long hike up the mountain with plenty of hiking trails, everything from [...]
Every summer the elementary school I work at goes on a teacher's field trip. Last year we went to Ganghwa island, just the elementary school teachers and some of the staff. This year though things have changed so practically everyone was piled onto a big charter bus that drove us to the Eastern Sea for "Teachers [...]
