https://grrrltraveler.com A Female Solo Travel Blog | It's not a vacation until you survive it! Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:27:46 +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/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/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 https://grrrltraveler.com/mtv-english-teacher-korea/ https://grrrltraveler.com/mtv-english-teacher-korea/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:17:25 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=8247 These days I find, readers have been curious about the life of an English teacher and how I got my start. What's my story? How did I get this gig?... Well, my story can be shot from many angles- this is one aspect of it. Here goes part three of my four-part series... Reality teens to real life tots I teach in the public school elementary school system through the EPIK program. When I left my career as a TV producer and shooter in New York City to embark on my gap year, I was beginning to feel a little burnt out by the handful of MTV teen reality shows I'd been working on and the economy wasn't getting better. I didn't have a 9-5 job chained to a cubicle but living in NYC as a freelancer was a 24/7 gig. Sustaining a career in such a competitive city chained me to the non-stop megalopolis of pushing to ]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/mtv-english-teacher-korea/feed/ 7 https://grrrltraveler.com/5-things-mtv-taught-me/ https://grrrltraveler.com/5-things-mtv-taught-me/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:04:32 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=9009 I used to work for MTV producing teen reality shows. What did it teach me about teaching ESL?]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/5-things-mtv-taught-me/feed/ 14 https://grrrltraveler.com/teach-in-korea-epik-vs-hagwons/ https://grrrltraveler.com/teach-in-korea-epik-vs-hagwons/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:14:38 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=8654 If you ask most people why they were drawn to Korea, the very first answer you'd commonly hear is-- the benefits. Korea has by far, the best package out there. Along the way, you discover the experience itself is so much more, but before I get into that, here you go~]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/teach-in-korea-epik-vs-hagwons/feed/ 27