Korea Burn 2013
The theme of this year's Burning Man festival in Korea (KoreaBurn) was FLOW. GPWT traveled there with Sea-saw Shisha by the Sea Shore, an exhibition for inhaling the good times, exhaling the bad vibes, and keeping it all in balance. Our group's theme camp was a giant ch…
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Dokdo knowledge tour
I am grateful to have been sent by the Isabu Academy, with funding from the Korean government and assistance from our local public education office, to Dokdo, the island of stone in the East Sea. I want to share a few highlights from the trip. "Okay everybody! Hana, du…
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Stuff Swap
My morning Intermediate class participating in the Stuff Swap Do you have too much useless stuff in your apartment? Are you going to let that ugly shirt your friend gave you just sit in your closet along with all those books you are never going to read? Don't let it clu…
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Mudfest 2013
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep. What memories for mud to have! What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met! -Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle Have you heard of Mudfest? According to boryeongmudfestival.com , the annual mud festival held at Daecheo…
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TOEIC Exam Review
I just took another TOEIC test. No study or taking classes. Just self evaluating about how well do I know my English. Then I ended up evaluating the test. So here's some opinions. But before I continue, some information for those who never heard about TOEIC : It&…
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G.P.T.W.T.'s 100th Post!
Photo by Young Gun! From all of us at getting past the white tiger we would like to thank you for supporting our blog! Like us, our readers are from around the world! We would like to hear where you are from, comment below! Want to know a little more about our writers? C…
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Korean digital dementia... stop reading this and go do something!
Expat English teachers spend a lot of free time behind their computers. Believe me, I speak from experience. But lately in Korea there's been some research into a strange phenomenon: "a deterioration in cognitive abilities that is more commonly seen in people who have …
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Korean theatre.. and the countdown begins!
6 am. My alarm goes off. I struggle to remember the weekend. I remember kids laughing and throwing water balloons in the park. I remember going to a Korean performance of Romeo and Juliet with an actor from NYC who speaks Korean fluently. I remember going out to an island in th…
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The Korean Bungee Jumping Adventure!
A few months ago my friend Ava and I went on the local air force base for a bit of shopping. After collecting a plethora of western goods we wanted to own she encountered a problem. She's from Canada and therefore doesn't have an American credit card. Poop. So that is h…
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Military Training Day
Every Korean men are mandatary to join the military when they become the age of adulthood. Most of them doesn't like the idea of leaving the comfortable civilian pop life and wasting 2 to 3 years in a jail when the only crime they have committed is being born in a war c…
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