Author: rmatz@gmu.edu

Our first trip to another Asian city outside of Korea was Kyoto.  The city is close enough and airfare inexpensive…

Teresa breaks her arm, and gets healthcare in a system that doesn’t seem broken. Speaking of breaks, “Adventures in Korea”…

Friends from the US coming to visit gave us a perfect opportunity to travel to some new places and return…

Korea is 70 percent mountains, and it’s surrounded by seas.  This May we visited both. For our first trip out…

Spring comes to Songdo slowly, but surely. Everywhere else I have lived springs comes in fits and starts–up to 70…

We wander around Songdo, learn how to use the subway, and visit Seoul. Our first taste of ordinary life in…

We arrive; we eat; we eat some more; and meet some students