Korea

Korea

Working and living in Seoul, South Korea from 2008 to 2014 was an amazing experience.  The biggest advantage to living in a foreign culture is that it changes your view of your home culture since you gain an outsider's perspective.  I worked as an instructor of English as a Second Language (ESL) at two private academies and one university.

Seoul's Gangnam business district

Gangnam at night

What Gangnam is most famous for now.  The song is actually a parody of people who act pretentious while living in upscale Gangnam

With friends at a birthday jazz jam

Jazz fan friends

Home-cooked traditional Korean meal

Jazz street art nearby the Jarasum Jazz Festival

Met one of my jazz heroes, pianist Robert Glasper, at the Jarasum Jazz Festival

Jam at Jazz Alley

Kindergarten class

Trying to look like a proper uni lecturer

 The jjimjilbang aka Korean sauna: One of the best things about Korea

Bard, the great traditional Irish music band of Korea

Taebaek mountains of southeastern Korea

Yongyeon Cave near Taebaek City