Do You Like Kimchi: My Year in Korea

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Do You Like Kimchi? My Year in Korea

• By Erin Rickbeil
• LIBR 500 Foundations of Information Technology

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• I lived in Jeonju, Korea from December 2003 to
  December 2004
• I taught English as a Second Language to students
  age 3 to 14
• Korea was a fabulous place to live and there are
  a lot of things I miss.

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My Favorite Things About Korea

• The People
• The Food
• The Landscape and Scenery

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The People

• I met a lot of fabulous people in Korea and I was
  also lucky to see a few familiar faces from home.

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• My Co-Workers at Christmas

• My Students at Halloween

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A familiar face

• I was very lucky that six months after I moved to
  Korea, Brent, one of my best friends from Canada
  came to work for my school.

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Very Familiar Faces

• My parents came to visit over Christmas

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The Food!

• I lived in an area of Korea famous for its food.
  But everywhere you go in Korea there is something
  very delicious to try.

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The Food!!!

• Korea has many amazing kinds of food, including
  kimchi, the national dish
• It is most often made using
• Cabbage
• Red Pepper Paste
• A lot of salt or soy sauce!!!
• Then it is buried in earthenware till it
  ferments. Mmmmmit is very delicious!

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Some of My Favorite Meals

• BBQ Duck

• Live Octopus!!

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The Places and Landscape

• Korea is a beautiful country. It is very
  mountainous, but also full of sprawling green
  rice fields, cherry trees and bustling cities.
• Here are a few of my favorite pictures and the
  coolest place I visited, the Demilitarized Zone.

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National Parks in Korea
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DMZ Joint Security Area

• The DMZ is the heavily guarded border that
  divides South and North Korea
• During my summer vacation I had the opportunity
  to travel to the Joint Security Area (JSA),
  which is inside the DMZ.
• This building is half in the North and half in
  the South so that when having peace talks no one
  has to leave their own country.

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North Korea

• Me in North Korea

• This is a North Korean solider watching our tour
  group

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The End
All images property of Erin Rickbeil