The Travel Peoples

(This article first appeared on Korea.Net .) Admiring South Korean culture as "soft power" Annyeonghaseyo! Hello! January 13 is National Korean-American Day! The day celebrates and honors Americans of full or partial Korean descent. It marks the arrival of Korea’s first immigrants to the United States on the same day in 1903 in Honolulu, Hawaii. An American former expatriate with a lustrous career in her field graces this piece. Rebecca, as she prefers to be called, reflects on her exciting life in South Korea years back. Now retired and settled back in the U.S., she relives those days and marvels at the current booming Korean culture in her country. Angelica: How did you end up in South Korea? Rebecca: Thanks to my background in international affairs and foreign languages, I was selected to work for an international organization in South Korea in the mid-1990s. That was a quarter-century ago! I miss South Korea and would love to travel there again soon. So, I’m trying to ...

  (Article by Kate Chang from Seoul. Read about her travel blogs on  https://blog.naver.com/happychj77 .) One day, a friend took a year off to carry out her bucket list. One of the items on her list is to live in Jeju for one month. I envied her. It is not easy for me to go on a journey with various excuses. But she was different. My friend made plans and she did them. She booked airplane tickets, rented a house and a car. I began to encourage her as I watched her do it one by one. She told me to come to Jeju whenever I want while preparing for the trip. I remember the trip we had together in college. After graduating from college, we had no more time to travel. I decided to go on a trip with my friend to make new memories. Jeju is known as tangerines. She rented a beautiful two-story house in the middle of many tangerine trees. I stayed on the second floor. I could see the moon through the big window on the wall until morning. Suddenly the sun rose and the moon disappeared. T...