The semester is over and I returned to Hawaii! Looking back at my experience abroad in Korea, here is some advice based on what I...

One of the biggest things I was looking forward to was the food. Before I came here, I would always watch Korean street food and cafe...

Midterm week occurred near the end of October. I had 3 tests to take during this period, all in-person. Following up to this week, I...

One thing about me is that I LOVE desserts and so I was especially looking forward to Korean cafes. Before coming here, I spent a lot of...

As someone who hasn’t lived in a cold place before, I was really looking forward to winter in Korea. I’ve always preferred colder weather...

Here is a map of Yonsei and some of the important buildings to know: Student Union (bank with international ATMS, multiple cafeterias),...

HiKr Ground, Insadong, and Hybe Insight There are many cool areas of Seoul to explore, here are some I went to recently. HiKr Ground is a...

We spent the weekend at Jeju Island, which is an hours plane ride from Seoul. Thankfully the only class I have on Friday is online, so we...

We took a day trip to Nijimori Studio, a former Japanese village film set that was turned into a park. It’s located in Dongducheon, north...

I lived in Hawaii my entire life, so this is the first time I get to experience the changing seasons. It's currently still mid November,...

Random tidbits about living in Seoul Always be on the lookout for cars and motorcycles zipping through the streets (even when walking on...

Seoul is a huge city and there are a lot of things you can do. Here is just some of them. Taekwondo A couple weeks into the semester, we...

I went to Lotte World on Saturday, October 8th. It’s very popular to wear school uniforms to amusement parks in Korea, so the first thing...

On Saturday October 1, we went to Gyeongbokgung Palace again. This time we wanted to wear hanbok, traditional Korean clothes. There are...

Chuseok is one of the major Korean holidays and this year it fell from 9/9 to 9/12 (meaning we had a 4-day weekend!). On Friday we went...

As an avid Kpop fan, one thing I was looking forward to in Korea was birthday cafes. Basically, on a K-Pop idol’s birthday (or the week...

Registration for the fall semester was held around mid August. Yonsei uses a mileage system, not a time based one, for the first round...

Before school started, we spent 3 days in Busan. We got there on the KTX train (the same type of train shown in the movie Train to...

Hongdae, Ewha, Gangnam, and Myeongdong We spent the first week walking through different areas of Seoul. I did some clothes shopping at...

I finally arrived in Korea! I flew out from Hawaii on 8/16 and arrived at Incheon Airport on 8/17 in the evening. I flew on Korean Air...