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So as many of you might already know from my other blogs, I've been accepted to study abroad in Korea, at Korea University Sejong campus.
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Everything's coming together, and I'm getting SUPER excited.
My visa came in, that's set and done (though I might need to get an extension cuz the period of sojourn is only 4 months T.T)
All my KU paperwork is all set, I'm already admitted and have the scholarships locked in.
I have around ₩650,000, so I won't be needing Korean currency for a while.
I've been eating legit Korean food  ] Banchan is amazing. I just had ddeokbokki last night... UHM
FREAKING DELICIOUS. I'll be trying kimchi chigeh and some naengmyeon or jjajangmyeon later. ^^
Anyway, I still have some things to do...
Buy a camera, to take pics and show you guys!
Find out who from TL will be in Korea when I'm there (Aug 21 - ~Dec 20)
Get masters so I can at least beat some Korean golds -_-
Learn more Korean + get better at reading Hangul
Download more Kpop + start watching dramas (any reccomendations?)
Besides that, I'm hella pumped for fast internet, cuz my internet in Hawaii SUCKS.
I'm hyped to be able to hopefully watch some GSL/SPL/OSL/MSL LIVEEEE. (@GSL I want pics and maybe some autographs!)
I'm not sure if I'm going to get a phone, but if I do, I heard they have ridiculous phones, at the Transformers level.
I want to eat some more Korean food, and see all the pretty things in Korea while it's still fall. ]]
Maybe go to a Kpop concert. :o
+ Drinking. (I think I'm of legal age in Korea. :3)
Oh. And Korean girls. OMGGG.
Yayyyyy. Anyway, that's all, just a little status update for anyone who was curious and a little outlet for my (possible) over-excitement.
 
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Shoot me a message when you arrive.
-S-
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Awesome! You better check out some GSL while you are there. I hope it is a great experience for you.
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Oh, and the trick with the Korean girls is speak some Korean. Even guys get all twitterpated when I break out the hangul. It's a great opener. When I was doing my med check up last week, I asked where the trashcan was in Korean and two x-ray techs and the nurse got all goggle-eyed. And they were all men.
Oh, and I should also mention, do not rely on Korean guys to be your wingmen. They have no game and how they ever figure out how to reproduce is beyond me.
Sorry if you're Korean and this upsets you, but it's true. Korean men are absolutely clueless when talking to women. I can't even count how many times I've been in a club or a bar and it's split along gender lines. It's so bad that in night clubs, men would rather dance with themselves before going up to one of the many women that are standing around looking bored.
-S-
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I'll try to remember that, 감사합니다 형(?)
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Sounds exciting! I'd be interested to hear about how the ladder compares to the NA ladder from the perspective of someone who isn't a pro player.
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There's actually a lot of us over here, although we don't tend to meet up as a large group very often outside of BW/SC2 finals. Hope you have a great time at KU man.
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On July 24 2011 17:07 TheAmazombie wrote:
You better check out some GSL while you are there. I hope it is a great experience for you.
This a thousand times this!
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Soooooooooooooo jealous right now. I love your blogs, man. Please keep us up to date and good luck in Korea!
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On July 24 2011 17:23 FuRong wrote:
There's actually a lot of us over here, although we don't tend to meet up as a large group very often outside of BW/SC2 finals. Hope you have a great time at KU man.
Aww that's a shame. I was hoping I'd find some people to go to watch GSL with :o
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The trick with Korean girls is to be ripped, lol. Yesterday at Haeundae my friend constantly had groups of mind-blowingly goodlooking girls approaching him for selcas or whatever. Major jelly.
I'm also a spicy rice cake fan, although everyone else just thinks it's kids food hehe. I like the fish cakes ^_^ My favourite dish here is kimchi jjigae for sure. Barbecue is good but it's not as comforting as some nice spicy warm soup. Whenever you eat Korean food you always have a runny nose. It's now my measurement of good food, how runny my nose is. And Korean Chinese food is really good. They have this deep fried pork that is like crack. I could eat a few tonnes of that stuff. And proper ramyun at Japanese places <3
I haven't been to Seoul yet, I want to this winter, so I will be up for a TL BW meet  . I really wish proleague finals were at Gwangalli, I was there last night and it is so beautiful, but you would have just missed that. You're here for the World Cyber Games in Busan though (no BW  ). I'll be going for sure.
I would download some Korean movies, my favourites are My Sassy Girl and A Moment to Remember. And watch Family Outing at http://www.isubs-squad.com/. I personally think all the dramas are rubbish Knowing about the culture really helps and you learn tonnes of vocab. If I get left alone with a Korean I always talk about T-ara or whatever (I made some Korean guy literally ROFL last night when I showed him I knew the roly poly dance ).
It's going to be amazing!
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im so happy for you man ! + so jelly :D Congratulations and yes u HAVE TO post pics every single day !
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if i went to korea for a visit, id try to dodge kpop wherever possible >.>
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On July 24 2011 17:38 KT s0ng wrote:The trick with Korean girls is to be ripped, lol. Yesterday at Haeundae my friend constantly had groups of mind-blowingly goodlooking girls approaching him for selcas or whatever. Major jelly. I'm also a spicy rice cake fan, although everyone else just thinks it's kids food hehe. I like the fish cakes ^_^ My favourite dish here is kimchi jjigae for sure. Barbecue is good but it's not as comforting as some nice spicy warm soup. Whenever you eat Korean food you always have a runny nose. It's now my measurement of good food, how runny my nose is. And Korean Chinese food is really good. They have this deep fried pork that is like crack. I could eat a few tonnes of that stuff. And proper ramyun at Japanese places <3 I haven't been to Seoul yet, I want to this winter, so I will be up for a TL BW meet . I really wish proleague finals were at Gwangalli, I was there last night and it is so beautiful, but you would have just missed that. You're here for the World Cyber Games in Busan though (no BW ). I'll be going for sure. I would download some Korean movies, my favourites are My Sassy Girl and A Moment to Remember. And watch Family Outing at http://www.isubs-squad.com/. I personally think all the dramas are rubbish Knowing about the culture really helps and you learn tonnes of vocab. If I get left alone with a Korean I always talk about T-ara or whatever (I made some Korean guy literally ROFL last night when I showed him I knew the roly poly dance ). It's going to be amazing!
I'll get working out then ^^
I love my runny nose when I eat my kimchi bowl ^^ 농심 짱! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Hmm Busan.. That's a bit far. I'll probably be able to find some kind of way there though, we'll have to see. ^^
I'm working on learning some dances, but I only know bits and pieces. Mostly SNSD stuff, Abracadabra, The Kara butt dance, need to learn some guy dances T.T
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Man am I jealous of you. Only regret I have from my college days was not taking the opportunity to study abroad. I hope you have lots of fun and please do share your experiences with us, preferably through pictures and video.
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I'm going to try and get a pretty high quality camera, been looking at the Nikon COOLPIX, trying to find some other DSLR quality but not so bulky cameras.
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may I ask what you will be studying? also yeah work out a ton lol.
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On July 24 2011 18:29 JoeSchmoe wrote:
may I ask what you will be studying? also yeah work out a ton lol.
Well since I'm only gonna be a sophomore, classes aren't completely major related. I was accepted as a computer and information science major, but I'll likely just be taking electives. ^^
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I'm so jealous! I've already said it before but now even more so since it's really coming a long! Man, I think you are gonna have an amazing time. Just how you live up to it and how much fun you are already having show that 
And that picture looks incredible. I love snow <3
Also check out Running Man (it's available in 720p also on iSubs), it's really funny and what he said is so true. You learn a lot of culture from the variety shows. How they interact, what is appropriate, different foods and just in general pick up on the feel of so many things.
I don't know if I can recommend any Drama's since I've only watched some Dream High and almost finished with Iris. But I do like them, and I think in the future I will actually watch some romance ones. What you can do is see which people you enjoy. For example if you like Suji or Taecyeon or Eunjung or IU you can enjoy Dream High. Go about it that way.
If you like T-ara, Eunjung is doing We got Married currently, haven't been able to follow it actively and really mad nobody is encoding it in 720p (it's not 2003 anymore people) but it should be fun and you also get to see other members.
And what I think is really fun about it is when you see some of the roly poly performances, when the camera goes on Eunjung you can see her glow, become super enthusiastic and really try hard to be cute and cool (like too much so, not for the performance anymore but for herself or someone else  .
I think that's because of We got Married, they are doing really well and in comparison to when I watched CN Blue's Jonghwa and SNSD's Seohyun, they develop well and have gotten really close and couplely. Totally into it :o
Last, I know some people don't like the podcast learning and I'll agree it's not preferable over active learning but you still pick up things well and can play them whenever.
http://www.talktomeinkorean.com/category/lessons/ That one I'm enjoying lately, nice index, free, if you get the main hosts, good chemistry fun. Might be something don't know.
Too much already! At least you can tell I'm sincerely excited for you <3
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Phones in Korea aren't really any more high tech than anywhere else!
They pretty much export any high end phone nowadays (ex Galaxy S2, Optimus).
I'd offer to show you around but I actually leave on August 20th...odd coincidence?
Also some of the universities actually don't have super fast internet in dorms, just to warn you.
Don't want to make you feel bad but I was a little disappointed the first time I stayed in a university dorm here. Wasn't at KU though so you might be luckier.
Edit: It's too bad you won't be here for the GSL finals at the end of this month. Oh well you'll definitely get the chance to make it to a couple. As FuRong said early there's actually a decent number of people in Seoul on TL but everyone is pretty lazy and has a lot of their own stuff going on. Someone usually ends up making a meetup thread for a finals or something but you're more than welcome to make a thread just for a random meetup. I'm sure you'll get a few people.
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