Listed here are some great blogs we have found that offer interested readers a glimpse of what life is like living abroad in South Korea. If you write a blog in South Korea and would like it listed here, please feel free to contact us. Note: GO! Overseas reviews all recommended blogs to ensure quality content.
Our favorite South Korea blogs:
Eat Your Kimchi
By Martina and Simon: We’re married and both certified Canadian teachers. We moved to South Korea to teach English as a second language. We love it here!
Twitter: @Eatyourkimchi
Adventures in SoKo
By Meaghan: I moved to Seoul, South Korea in August 2009 to begin teaching English for SMOE (the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education). I love living in Korea and teaching in a public elementary school. This blog is a way for me to share my life on the other side of the world with friends and family back home.
Claudia and Olivar's Korean Adventure
By Claudia and Oliver: Oliver Hirtenfelder and I (Claudia Forster-Towne) have been dating since November 2004. We both enjoy a good adventure and decided South Korea would be a great place to find one. We packed up, left friends and family behind so that we could explore and learn about a new and completely different culture. We are both currently working as teachers at Hagwons in Wonju.
Bathhouse Ballads
By Nick: I first came to Korea in the autumn of 2000 and on that occasion spent a year teaching in various schools in Daegu. I returned several times, 2003 for 6 months and 2005 for 3 weeks, always to the same area, Song-So. I returned again in 2007, this time to work in one of the countries most prestigious high schools, a semi private school, in Cheonan, (天安). After a year, I returned to Daegu, to work in a friends hakkwon.
Kimchi and Cornbread
By Lindsay: We never expected we'd still be here when we left America three years ago to come teach in South Korea. But here we are--still eating kimchi, learning Korean, and having the time of our lives. Interested in learning more about the experience? Visit our recruiting agency, Say Kimchi Recruiting.
Straight From The Curls
By Simone: Straight From The Curls has been around for over three years now, and it's definitely a labour of love. This blog is essentially an extension of me. It's gives me the opportunity to share fascinating and entertaining findings with you, along with little tid-bits and insights from my experiences in life.
Annyeong!
By Breda: Hello, I'm Breda Lund. I'm originally from Boulder, Colo. After studying journalism in college, I worked in the publishing industry for a few years as a proofreader, writer and editor. Then I came to South Korea in 2009 to teach English.
Brian in Jeollanam-Do
By Brian: I'm a 29-year-old Pittsburgher who lived in South Korea from July, 2005 through February, 2010. In September 2007 I started Brian in Jeollanam-do as a place to talk about my pictures, share information about South Jeolla province, and---seriously---practice my English.
Tigers and Magpies
By Eddie: Tigers & Magpies travel editor, Eddie Provencher, is an American citizen who first came to the Korean peninsula in September 2006 to teach English, learn Korean, and to have a cultural experience. Since coming to Korea Eddie has grown to love teaching English, has learned Korean up to a low-intermediate level, and has had many deep cultural experiences. In the spring of 2009 Eddie took a 3 month break from teaching English to travel in Korea.
Grrrl Traveler
By Christine: GRRRL TRAVELER pens everything from her travels (tips, insights, woes and inspirational humor), her work in reality TV and her life as an expat living in South Korea. Whether traveling solo as a single female or with friends, surviving travel is about finding GRRR!, exploring one’s independence and empowering oneself as a traveler by navigating cultural diversity while experiencing the bizarre, foreign, frightening and often times, funny.
Twitter: @Grrrltraveler
The Marmot's Hole
By Robert: The Marmot’s Hole is a blog where people come to talk about Korea. It’s run by Robert J. Koehler, a magazine editor living in Seoul and a 10-year-resident of Korea. The blog represents a rather poor attempt to mix “hard” news and intellectually enriching discussion of “serious” topics such as Korean history, Korean politics, North Korea, the U.S. troop presence in Korea and regional geopolitics with less-serious fare—Korean tabloid crap, booby pics, “dumb foreigner” stories and the like.
Twitter: @Rjkoehler
Lee's Korea Blog
By Lee: This little blog began in the humid Korean summer of July 2006, originally to serve as a diary of life in Korea. It has widened a bit in scope since then, and is trying to be more entertaining and informative, to varying degrees of success.
FarmBoy and CityGirl Hit Asia
By CityGirl: Umm...I studied English and Psychology at Rhodes University in South Africa and have just finished having a ball teaching a bit of the English language to little kiddies :) I love shopping, bright lights and lots of shiny things...that being said, I love being with FarmBoy and accompanying him where ever he goes, especially when its to his farm! Us Citygirls make quite good farm girls too!
The Three Wise Monkeys
By 3WM: The Three Wise Monkeys is a modern-way reincarnation of DDD magazine– A lot of good DDD stuff can be mined from its archive on this site. We are a weekly updated blogazine with inside-out reportage, interviews, images, videos and everything else we can frame into it that is provocative, smart, entertaining and takes on life here from the Korean Peninsula.
Teach Korea Tips
By Peterson: We’re an American couple living and teaching English in Seoul, South Korea. We know there is a ton of information out there about how to get a job teaching in English in South Korea, but a lot of it is not very well organized or up to date. So we started this website to provide a simple, step-by-step guide for getting the best job possible in South Korea.
Lateral Movements
By Lauren: Lateral Movements is about living a life that’s defined by what you really do, not your job title.
Twitter: @LateralMovement
Biz and Steve in Korea
By Biz and Steve: Biz and Steve are two English teachers from Washington State, U.S.A. We left for S. Korea in August 2010 to teach English in the Korean public school system. This blog is a collection of our triumphs, failures and ramblings. Enjoy!
Backpack B's
By Larry & Sarah: This site was created to blog our adventures while we travel around the world so we can share our experiences with friends and family. The site is maintained by us, Larry B. & Sarah B.(The 2 Backpack B’s), we are a happily married couple with no children yet…well no human children that is, we have an OH SO SPOILED cat, Beanicus Maximus (Bean for short).
Find Bob
By Bob: No description.
From Korea With Love
By Alex: A photo/video blog of a new English teacher in Daegu, teaching at an all girl's middle school and exploring Korea with her best friend and hedgehog.
Seoul Curry
By Shweta: I am a designer by profession, and an enthusiast in the oriental culture. I moved to Seoul recently and have been exploring the depths of the Orient day by day. This is my journal to get a design perspective on things around and to document my experiences and inspirations. Apart from being the head designer for Ravissant, Silver..creating cute little crafty products for my etsy store keeps me busy.
I Got Seoul
By Sean: In november 2009 I worked a crap job, with no possibility of getting a great job. So I decided the heck with it, I needed a change. In November an oppertunity to teach in seoul came up. I jumped, and in February 2010 I arrived... Now in my second year in Seoul, I continue to blog about the usual and unusual life I experience.
Stupid Ugly Foreigner
By Michael: I moved to Incheon, South Korea in the fall of 2010 to teach ESL at an elementary school. Why? To flee the terrible Ontario job market. To gain teaching experience. To make money. To see the world. To find myself, and all those other histrionic things you say to try to justify a move like this. To eat strange, delicious, still-moving foods. Maybe possibly to prove that Kim Jong-Il is actually a cyborg. Stay a while, look at some pictures, and read about how I continue to manage to not perish in the ROK.
The Korea Guide
By Brijesh: The Korea Guide is for people who are planning to relocate to Korea for work or study. It has useful information about life in Korea. You can visit this site regularly to check about upcoming events, festivals, competitions celebrated in various parts of Korea.
Aussie in Korea
By Benny: Korea through the eyes of a foreigner.
The QiRanger Adventures
By Steve: To explore the unknown is the greatest adventure.




