Korea

Seoul Global Center is offering a Business Start-up School program from June 14 ~ 30.
All classes will be in English, and they’ll teach you what you need to know in setting up a business(Restaurant, E-Commerce, Consulting, Int’l Trade) in Korea as a foreigner.
The invitation said for foreigners, so I personally asked the person in charge [...]

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The KBS documentary program Wednesday Plan(수요기획) will be featuring the “Tuna Hunters” from General Santos City, Philippines. It’s a 31-day documentary of the lives of tuna fishermen.
It will be on air through KBS1TV on May 12, Wednesday, 11:30pm.
I forgot to post about another documentary, this time by SBS, through the program News Pursuit (뉴스추적).
It was about the [...]

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Plugging lang po~!
Our new EBS show <외국인을 위한 실용 한국어 (초급)> Practical Korean for Foreigners(Basic Course) started airing on TV last Monday, Oct. 19 and will be on air ’til February 10, 2010.
Our first show, which was also a beginner course, dealt mostly with basic Korean grammar and usage. This time it will be more about conversational Korean,  [...]

Jeez!  My first post in four months!
Gosh, been too bz coz of a lot of things but more so, coz of our upcoming play which will be on stage starting…. jeez! tomorrow! 19 hours later to be exact! And will be on a four-day run.
Anyway, I promised friends I’ll post about the play specially the location of [...]

Any filipino, based in Seoul, interested to work as a volunteer for the Seoul Global Center?  They’re looking for Filipinos who can speak Tagalog, English and Korean. Korean fluency is not required, basic Korean should be more than enough.  What’s important is that you speak tagalog and english coz a lot of volunteers at the Global Center speak English. The [...]

Hiring talents to play bit roles for upcoming Korean movie, to be starred by Song Kang-ho and Kang Dong-won (tentative title ‘의형제’ - Sworn Brothers).
The movie, scheduled to hit the screens early 2010, will start shooting by mid-May.
6~8 female southeast asians (pref. from Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand) needed to play the roles of  migrant women,(married to Koreans).  [...]

I was looking for information about the “One Philippines” festivities to be held on May 30~31 at the Philippine embassy website, sadly I found nothing more than what I already know.
But I did stumble upon an announcement made by the embassy entitled “Filipino Children’s Stories now available at a Korean Website Portal”. It’s an online animated picture [...]

Thursday, March 5, 2009’s entrance ceremony marked the school opening as well as the start of the school year of Daewon International Middle School(DWIMS) in Seoul. Peeps from the media were there to cover the ceremony attended by the first batch of DWIMS students, 156 of them and their family as well as principals and/or representatives from Daewon’s sisterschools in [...]

I was out the whole day yesterday for a publicity trip for EBS and out the whole day today for the charity bazaar. Was so beat up I had to take a nap the minute I saw our bed. Woke up for dinner(which hubs prepared~) and a couple of hours after helping my boy ‘partially finish’ his [...]

A lot of people have been complaining that they aren’t able to watch the EBS show, “Basic Korean for Foreigners”, because it’s being shown in EBS Plus 2 channel (cable tv) and some areas are not able to reach the said channel.
Since the show is doing good, EBS decided that  they will now televise the show from [...]