Category Archives: Korea

Wallpaper Wanderer – White Water Rafting in Inje-gun

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Oh my, it’s been more than a month since the last Wallpaper Wanderer where we saw the lovely Israeli sunset by Brooke the Fugue Traveler… ack! Let’s just say March was insane and in April I got lazy, and hopefully as May approaches (seriously, where is all that time going) I will pick up the…

Sharing on Maptia How Places Are Like People

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The lovely people at Maptia (I posted about them awhile back here) invited me to participate in a new segment on their blog called Places are like People, and here’s my first guest post there: It was pretty fun recapping my first solo trip to Seoul – I tend to do more informational blogposts about…

Shopping for Beauty Products in Seoul [Go! Girl Guides Article]

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Crossposted from Go! Girl Guides, where I’m a contributing blogger. Check out the site for more great articles from other freewheelin’ travellin’ girls that go! If there’s one thing you notice about the Koreans from their celebrities, other than their perfectly symmetrical faces, it’s their  flawless skin. Beauty is big business in Korea – for…

Research It or Wing It?

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Here’s a question Occasional Travellers, how do you plan for your solo trips? Are you the studious researcher, who pores through guidebooks and travel sites and knows exactly where you want to go and what to do, even before you step on foreign land? Or are you the free spirit, who just gets a plane…

How to Pack for a Shopping Trip [Go! Girl Guides Article]

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Crossposted from Go! Girl Guides, where I’m a contributing blogger. Check out the site for more great articles from other freewheelin’ travellin’ girls that go! Singapore, where I hail from, is a land of malls. We have new shopping malls sprouting up every year, and a recent survey found that shopping was second on the…

Ordering Food When you Don’t Speak the Language [Go! Girl Guides Article]

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Crossposted from Go! Girl Guides, where I’m a contributing blogger. Check out the site for more great articles from other freewheelin’ travellin’ girls that go! So you’ve packed your bags, headed as far from home as you can; you’ve seen the sights to see, breathed the foreign air and… you’re dining on McDonald’s or instant…

Seoul Food

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I’m not a foodie. My take on food is that it’s mostly for survival – I eat to live and I hardly go out of the way just for a good meal. Also, I don’t believe you should eat anything you don’t want to eat – I love my comfort food, I don’t like vegetables…

Seoul Sights: Samcheongdong and Bukchon Hanok

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Hello I’m finally going to finish up the last of my Seoul posts! It’s been like… 3 months since my trip but I’m SO BAD at finishing things… my Taiwan posts are still unfinished, and that trip was 4 years ago! Anyhow, I’m endeavoring to finally finish up Seoul’s posts… most of these posts have…

Seoul Sights: Gwanghwamun Square

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One name you’ll hear very often in Seoul is ‘Sejong’ – as in King Sejong the Great, 4th ruler in the Joseon dynasty and one of the most prominent Kings in Seoul’s history. He’s most well known for his invention of the current Seoul writing system Hangeul, and you can also find him on the…

Seoul Sights: Jogyesa

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Y’know what, August was such a hectic month that this blog’s first birthday has totally flown by without notice! Officially its first post was on Singapore’s National Day, 9th August 2010, but for some reason I kept thinking late October, probably because that’s about when TOTshop was first launched… But preamble aside, The Occasional Traveller…