Walking and Hiking Tours of Busan

My first presentation shouldn't be that difficult, after all, I have been making presentations everyday for my students.  Just that in this case, my students would be my peers.  Teaching English idioms and expressions through television was the topic I had to present, a topic I have been using and studying about since 2004.  Fast forward to the 2015 KOTESOL International Conference and I was ready to give my 80 minute workshop presentation.  To my delight, the room was packed full of eager learners.  I was glad to see some Korean faces in the audience, knowing full well that they were curious and willing to help their students with this nontraditional method of learning. My presentation went off without a hitch.  Many people left partway through my presentation to go to a different speaker.  When I was done speaking, the remaining faithful were first broken up into groups to act out a lesson as an ESL student.  I believed, through personal experie...

We had always wanted to visit Sarak-San​ (Mountain) and the Korean DMZ, but after 20 years of living in Korea and/or Asia, had never made it to the two most popular tourist destinations in South Korea, so, with some time off and a flight departing from Incheon (Seoul) a week later, it was primetime to finally go!! DAY 1) Tuesday, woke up early and went to the Kimhae Airport, where we caught our early flight to Kimpo Seoul Airport on Cheju Air. It's actually not that bad for a discount airline.  45 minutes later, we bought our Kimpo-Sokcho bus tickets and ate breakfast at Steff Hotdog.  The three hour bus ride was scenic, asides from the horrendous bus driver and/or the other drivers.  I only wish I hadn't of gotten a front row seat exposing me to the windshield (a case of ignorance is bliss would have been great in this case).  One nice note: the roadside stop had excellent peeled potatoes roasted in butter, akin to french fries in a brown bag from an Ottawa ...

We had always wanted to visit Sarak-San​ (Mountain) and the Korean DMZ, but after 20 years of living in Korea and/or Asia, had never made it to the two most popular tourist destinations in South Korea, so, with some time off and a flight departing from Incheon (Seoul) a week later, it was primetime to finally go!! DAY 1) Tuesday, woke up early and went to the Kimhae Airport, where we caught our early flight to Kimpo Seoul Airport on Cheju Air. It's actually not that bad for a discount airline.  45 minutes later, we bought our Kimpo-Sokcho bus tickets and ate breakfast at Steff Hotdog.  The three hour bus ride was scenic, asides from the horrendous bus driver and/or the other drivers.  I only wish I hadn't of gotten a front row seat exposing me to the windshield (a case of ignorance is bliss would have been great in this case).  One nice note: the roadside stop had excellent peeled potatoes roasted in butter, akin to french fries in a brown bag from an Ottawa ...