A Day of University Students in Korea

Grace from Korea here.

I've been doing camp counselor position at Junior English Camp during vacations since last winter, and I was lucky to have an amazing friends from there. Especially Alex, and Annie. We got close to each other doing 1month camp counselor job. We're all going to same university, only majors are different.

Well.. It turned out Alex is planning to go to America next month as an exchange student so I was wondering if we make a video before she leaves as our special memory! They were all happy with my opinion and that's how we make this video.

[ A Day of University Students in Korea ]

Hope you guys enjoy this video, I will come back with the next video this weekend.

Yes.. I need to sleep first.. It's 6:30 in the morning here.

Good night :D

#November, My Favourite Month of the Year

Grace from Korea here.

Hi guys, how've you been?

I know some countries are almost quite hot over the year, but in Korea, it's getting chilly these days. My favourite season, WINTER, is actually coming!! yay (Not everyone would be happy about it, but for me, yesss)

Actually, in this month, November, there's my birthday. (haha) Maybe that's why November is my favourite month of the year. Of course I had a great time this year as well, but, I don't know.. I think it's getting less special to have a birthday celebration as we're getting older. Or maybe it's just me.

All of my friends would know that I'm a huge fan of flower bouquets.

Y

es I had a great time. Thank you all.

Well, my birthday is November 11th, and it's kind of one of the lovers' day in Korea, like the Valentine's Day. There's a famous snack? pretzel? in Korea, called 'PEPERO'. They're sticks coverd with chocolate. Since November 11th is 11.11, it looks like a line with sticks, so it became kind of a traditional(?) for young people (also some of the adults too) to give Pepero to lovers and confirm their feelings for each other.

These are Peperos.

So, November 11th is the Pepero Day in Korea. Instersting, right?

I know there's a similar snack in Japan, called 'Pocky' and it seems like they are celebrating kind of a Pocky's Day in Japan, too. I'm sure it's all made up from companies of snacks, but it's still fun.

Yes, since my birthday is also Pepero Day, I've been eating a lot of Peperos on my birthday every year. Many friends were giving me Peperos as a birthday gift !! Thanks to them, it helped me a lot to gain extra weight. haha X)

It's already November 25th, my favourite month is almost passed by...

What are your plans for the winter?(or summer for you guys down there)

I can not wait to do another English Camp this winter ! Can't wait to see those beautiful kids again.

I hope to ace my final exam and enjoy the vacation with full of laughter :)

I'll let you know !

Happy Holiday ! Korean Thanksgiving "Chuseok"

Grace from Korea here.

It's been a long time coming :0

We had a long weekend in Korea because it was Korean Thanksgiving day "Chuseok" last Sunday. When it's Chuseok, we have 3 days off including the day of Chuseok. This time, since it was on weekend, we had Tuesday off too. It was long~ weekend x)

Normally, everybody visits their families during the holiday. But I didn't go to Seoul to visit my family.. I was lazy.. and had lots of assignments to do.. :(

But I was quite satisfied with having chance to read many books after long time.

Yay. Reading time ! haha

The only thing I missed a lot was the traditional Korean Chuseok dish, 'Songpyeon'.

(Sorry mum, of course I miss my family all the time)

It's rice cake, stuffed with sweet things. It's sticky and very tasty.

The day of Chuseok, families gather around and make Songpyeon together.

Yes.. I missed that warmness so much last weekend :(

But it's okay.. I'll look forward to having a New Year's feast. haha

Anyway..

Happy Chuseok everybody ! :D

[Korean Culture] What is Jjimjilbang? 한국 문화 체험 - 찜질방

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This time, my friends Q, Jieun, Sungji and I went to Jjimjilbang to show you Korean culture about public bath ; sauna. 

There will be 2 videos about it, and this video is the first one. 

Please enjoy watching it and always feel free to let me know what you want to know about Korean culture and any feedback.

이번에는 제 친구 큐, 성지, 지은과 함께 

한국 사우나 문화를 소개하기 위하여 찜질방을 다녀왔습니다 !  

두개의 비디오로 나눠질텐데요, 이번 비디오는 그 중에 파트 원이에요 :) 

재밌게 봐주세요~!

See you soon with the part two !

:D

찜질방(Jjimjil-bang)? Sauna? Public Bath?

Grace from Korea here.

Have you ever heard of Jjimjil-bang?

Korean Sauna?

It's Korean public bath.

Jjimjil means steam massage in Korean.

This time, I went to Jjimjil-bang to introduce Korean way to enjoy sauna, public bath with my friends Q, Jieun and Sungji.

It's called 'Spaland'.

One of the brand of Korean Jjimjil-bang and it's famous one in Busan city.

To enter the Jjimjil-bang,

we had to change our clothes to Jjimjil-bok.

(bok means clothes)

We had a really great time in there !

We did fun games, took lots of selfies :D haha

And you definitely need to have some snacks in Jjimjil-bang !

There are some typical snacks Koreans enjoy in there.

All these information,

you can find out in my next, coming video :D

Please look forward to it !

I'll do my best editing the video :D haha

See you soon

[Korean Culture] 연등축제 Lotus Lantern Festival ! 한국문화 체험

Grace from Korea here.

This time, I went to Lotus Lantern Festival ! In Korea, there's a national holiday ; 'Budda's Birthday' in May.  The city 'Busan' holds Lotus Lantern Festival, celebrating Budda's Birthday. There were various kinds of lanterns and all was so beautiful ! I hope you enjoy watching this video and experiencing Korean culture :)

이번엔 연등축제에 다녀왔습니다 !

한국의 5월에는 '부처님 오신 날'이라는 공휴일이 있죠.

부산에서는 5월동안 부처님 오신 날을 기념하여 연등축제를 열고 있었습니다~!

다양한 연등들이 있었고, 다 너무 아름다웠어요 !

재밌게 봐주셨으면 좋겠어요 :)

Please let me know if there is any idea about making video - Korean culture.

Hope to see you soon with another interesting video ! :)

[SHELF] Real Korean Story told by Real KOREAN

Grace from Korea here.

[SHELF] Real Korean Story told by Real KOREAN

What does SHELF stand for?

 [Second Half English Learning Fun] it is ! :D

I'm planing to make some interesting videos.

I'm sure you all know that I'm taking an amazing English class in my uni ; Audiovisual English. This SHELF project idea is from the class and it's for rest of this semester ! :)

The theme I chose for this project is 'Real Korean Story told by Real KOREAN'

We can talk about Korean language, expressions, and various cultural things !

You know, there's a cultural gap between English and Korean in various ways. I would like to talk about it as a real Korean ! I would like to know what foreigners are curious about Korea and Korean culture as starting my project. So I might take few surveys.

I was looking for some YouTube videos as thinking about my project and I found interesting one.

<Real university life in Korea> from Jina Kim

YouTube channel [itsjinakim]

This might be the similar one I'm thinking about to make. Except I'm not going to take my sleeping scene (no offense !) haha :D

Particular titles can be 

- Korean expressions that mean totally different in English

- What is university like in Korea

- What is usual in Western but unusual in Korea

so far.

I'm looking forward to make some interesting videos.

Please feel free to give me any idea for this project :)

See you soon !