https://grrrltraveler.com A Female Solo Travel Blog | It's not a vacation until you survive it! Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:10:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://grrrltraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/favicon.gif https://grrrltraveler.com 32 32 https://grrrltraveler.com/things-to-know-before-traveling-korea/ https://grrrltraveler.com/things-to-know-before-traveling-korea/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:45:43 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=47642   This post may contain affiliate links. Never leave home without travel insurance. Click for the travel insurance I use or check out this recommended trip insurance finder tool. Korean culture can feel very different for Western travelers.  Here’s 42 things to know before traveling Korea and things to know about Korean culture. To the outsider...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/things-to-know-before-traveling-korea/feed/ 6 https://grrrltraveler.com/korean-apartment-tour-epik-video/ https://grrrltraveler.com/korean-apartment-tour-epik-video/#comments Fri, 23 May 2014 15:26:39 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=43697   So this is a late entry by far. I’ve written a post on my apartment but for a while, I’ve held onto old footage of the day I arrived at my apartment in Daegu. The footage nagged at me throughout the years. In some ways, it even haunted. Each time I’d look through my...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/korean-apartment-tour-epik-video/feed/ 3 https://grrrltraveler.com/teaching-korea-epik/ https://grrrltraveler.com/teaching-korea-epik/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2014 02:16:27 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=43285 Watch more videos on Teaching in Korea here . Teaching overseas takes courage. It’s not easy to take a blind leap to teach in a country you know little about, without out knowing factors of how or where you’ll live or what the work environment will be like.  With any country and no matter how...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/teaching-korea-epik/feed/ 19 https://grrrltraveler.com/mock-teaching-interviews-how-to-teach-english-korea/ https://grrrltraveler.com/mock-teaching-interviews-how-to-teach-english-korea/#comments Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:09:38 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39692 Video: How to Teach English in Korea & Mock Teaching Interviews   So you’re applying for a teaching job in Asia. Maybe you want a job with a private English school or a university and the school just got back to you.  They are interested in you as a candidate! Yay. But now they’re asking for...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/mock-teaching-interviews-how-to-teach-english-korea/feed/ 4 https://grrrltraveler.com/teaching-english-summer-camp-in-korea/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:47:47 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=84847 https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-succeed-at-university-job-interviews-in-korea/ https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-succeed-at-university-job-interviews-in-korea/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:51 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=16401 The majority foreigners working in Korea teach English. As a foreigner, getting a job offer to teach a specialty aside from English is unlikely. Not impossible. It's just not a job that you'll find commonly posted for a foreigner.]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-succeed-at-university-job-interviews-in-korea/feed/ 32 https://grrrltraveler.com/inside-my-apartment-in-korea/ https://grrrltraveler.com/inside-my-apartment-in-korea/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:03:51 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=9700 So after having whimpered early off about my introduction to my apartment and Daegu, I've been reluctant to show you my free English teacher's apartment....]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/inside-my-apartment-in-korea/feed/ 10 https://grrrltraveler.com/korean-goodbye-parties/ https://grrrltraveler.com/korean-goodbye-parties/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:44:50 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=9683 https://grrrltraveler.com/korean-goodbye-parties/feed/ 1 https://grrrltraveler.com/happy-valentines-day-korea/ https://grrrltraveler.com/happy-valentines-day-korea/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:38:28 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=9388 Love Letter #3: Daegu, Korea They say it seldom snows in Daegu, but it's been snowing all day. Only a few cars were out on the road this morning, driving real slow. Many teachers reverted to the subway to get to work, parents accompanied their children to school on foot and it's surmounted in a bit of displacement in the monotonous routine of drivers. School started merrily late today. After lunch recess, the kids got into the spirit of the first major snowfall by getting into snow play. Did they build snowmen or make angels in the snow? No...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/happy-valentines-day-korea/feed/ 4 https://grrrltraveler.com/a-day-in-a-life-of-esl-teacher/ https://grrrltraveler.com/a-day-in-a-life-of-esl-teacher/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:27:40 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=29742 A Day in a Life of an MTV Producer turned ESL Teacher (Part 2)]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/a-day-in-a-life-of-esl-teacher/feed/ 2